Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
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“Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.”
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✦ About the Author
✦ More by Timothy Radcliffe
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Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
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All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
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The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.
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Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
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Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
✦ More Commandments Quotes
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.