The
influence of the christian ideology is deeply rooted in our minds as
a conclusion of centuries long brainwashing. I would even say that
this myth has become part of our cultural heritage. Nevertheless, I
believe it is time to slowly rebunk some of the lies the christian
leaders have been telling us for centuries.
So,
what is the Decalogue? Well, the Decalogue is supposed to be the list
of rules given to the people by god in order to give them clear
instructions how to live. Naturally, god didn’t give them
anything.The Decalogue is an invention of a power-hungry religious
leaders to control the people. This fact is pretty clear. But it
still doesn’t answer the question, why our society hasn’t risen
from these rules.
Let
me ask you this. Had civilizations existing before the Decalogue been
living in a total anarchy? Because if the Decalouge had trully been
the base of our civilization, the civilizations existing before it’s
creation would have to be living without any rules at all. And as you
can imagine, they weren’t. They also had rules. And those rules,
not surprisingly, didn’t allow people to kill each other, rebel
against their leader or have sex with the wives of their neighbours.
Do
you think that the rulers of the Ancient Egypt allowed their citizens
to steal? Or despise their gods? No. Not to mention the Romans. They
didn’t know or recognize the Decalogue for centuries of the Roman
Empire existence. But they also didn’t live in anarchy. Actually,
their law system was so perfect that almost every law system existing
today contains elements of the roman law.
So
what actually is the Decalogue? It’s the basic principle needed to
be followed in order to make the society work. You can’t kill
people just because you have a bad day, you can’t have sex with
your neigbour’s wife just because you want to, you can’t steal
from people just because you feel sudden urge to steal something and
you definitely can’t disobey your leaders no matter what your
motive is. And it doesn’t matter, if you consider god or king or
elected government to be your leader.
The
author of the Decalogue, whoever he was, definitely didn’t invent
these rules. He just put them on paper (or stone tablets if we follow
the legend). These rules, however, existed long before the Decalogue.
They existed since the homo sapiens decided to live in a groups
creating the first, primitive society.
And
why is it so important to realise this fact? Because we live in the
21st century. Science can answer almost all the questions you can
imagine and even if it can’t, it can still come up with more
reasonable theory than religion. But religion, no matter which,
somehow still hold its position and brainswash the people who are
blind to the fact that religion is dead. We must wipe religious
ideology out of the earth in order to create new civilization based
on sense. And we can achieve that only by disproving the myths that
helps the religious leaders and, consequently, religion to keep its
position in today’s society.
If
we allow religion to keep it’s position, we will live in a
civilization stuck between the medieval and modern ideas. And this
hybrid civilization won’t survive for long as it will soon be
destroyed by the religious fanatics