Did Moses get it wrong

Did Moses get it wrong?

Humanists say that morality and religion should be kept apart and shouldn’t be linked. They should be reminded of the moral code of the Ten Commandments where the first three state man’s duty to God (religion) and are linked with the other seven that state man’s duty to mankind (secular). This link of religion with the secular morality was first made by Moses and this has survived for a long time. There were secular codes that were forerunners of the Ten Commandments drawn up in ancient dynasties in the Middle East but these vanished with the dynasties. Moses commandments have survived over time. Humanists claim that in linking religion with morality Moses got it wrong but did he? I reckon Moses got it right and humanists have got it wrong.
I have a teenage granddaughter who goes to school in London. She says her favourite subject is—Religious Studies--.She has already done a course in Hinduism and is doing a course in Sikhism and will do a course in Islam. She will eventually do a course in Christianity. I don’t know what the moral basis of Hinduism and Sikhism is but no doubt there is such. But the moral basis of Christianity and Judaism is the Commandments and a variation o f the ten is the moral basis of Islam. In schools in England Christianity is presented to teenagers as one course among many but in India is Hinduism and Sikhism presented to teenagers (and is Islam in Iran presented to teenagers) as one course among many? I doubt it. The people o f these countries value their religion more highly than that. Christianity in England is on the decline and with it there is the demise of morality such as---Thou shalt not steal (a moral injunction that should have been taught to MPs and rioters alike) and this demise is a strong contributory factor to a broken English society.

Michael Gillespie
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