Reply #34: Right: Hearts, minds, doorposts, teach them to your children... [View All]

[Hekate]

..."Remember all My mitzvot and do them." It's actually a beautiful passage, and a beautiful piece of the shabbat liturgy.

When people have "inscribed" the commandments and meritorious acts (mitzvah means both) on their hearts and have taught them to their kids, they don't need to install stone replicas in courthouses, much less use them to metaphorically bash other people and threaten them with damnation. (Simply inscribing them on the doorposts as instructed would involve slipping a tiny scroll in a tiny flat box and nailing it in place.)

That's a big part of my problem with the wingnut-Christians who want to hang the 10 Commandments in public places -- it is not a meritorious act on their part, it is a bullying tactic. And that, of course, is why I bring up the Beatitudes -- they are the antithesis of bullying.

Hekate