What is the Relationship of the 10 Commandments?

What are the Ten Commandments and how do we function as a society with them?

The Ten Commandments really fall into two categories of relationships:

1. Relationship between man and God

2. Relationship between man and man.

The first four commandments are written in relation to God—they are about our relationship with God. How we honor, revere, and show our love toward God. They don’t mention God by name, but it is assumed that people know the association of this God with the Hebrew God.

Come to think of it, if the secular world really believes that all gods are the same god, then I wonder why this God offends them so much?

As it says in Exodus 20:5–6, "You shall not bow down to them or worship them," and this is speaking of false idols and false gods. An idol is anything you place before God in your life. A false god is any god other than the one true and living God.

But if you don’t believe in God, then obviously you won’t obey that command anyway. And the first four commandments would not apply to you either, right? And because you view them and, as such, all the commandments as religious rules from a non-existent imaginary being that don't apply to reality, then being a religious commandment, it must be kept from the public and not allowed in our education or laws. And, as I state in other writings, if you don’t believe in God, then you won’t be able to believe in God-given rights either. But that’s for another time, too.

The last six commandments are in relationship to each other as human beings and neighbors—man to man.

Honor your father and mother, which is hard to do in a society that encourages and rewards the separation of the family unit.

Do not murder. Not kill, but murder. This is a hard one to keep in a society that views life as random, with no purpose, and as a clump of cells. And one in which diversity and equity are championed above the content of character.

Do not commit adultery. This is a hard one to keep in a society that encourages promiscuity and redifines marriage.

Do not steal. This is hard to keep in a society that encourages, affirms, and supports theft, and one where its leaders are caught in bribes and theft but the people turn a blind eye.

Do not bear false witness. How about political assassinations, media bias and misinformation, and social media?

Do not covet. This, too, is difficult in a society telling you to want what you don't have in a lustful and jealous way and to never be satisfied or content and to always want more.

These commandments are extremely difficult to obey in a society that cheers, encourages, and rewards destruction, theft, murder, covetousness, and outright lies as equity, equality, justice, and natural rights, most often for political reasons.

It’s also hard to obey not committing adultery when the very act of adultery means intercourse, or sex, between the sacred bond of two married people. If there is nothing sacred or special about intercourse, meaning a society encourages sex with multiple partners for any reason at almost any age and marriage is no longer a sacred union, then it only makes sense that the teaching of thou shall not commit adultery would then fall into the same category as the others—not committing murder, stealing, bearing false witness, or coveting—and would be considered ignorant, intolerant, and hateful, and we wouldn’t want the schoolchildren to read, meditate on, or obey such a thing.

But are the Ten Commandments really hateful and intolerant?

Do they really hold no value to our education, society, or the American culture?

Are they really a violation of our founding and the First Amendment?

Our Founders did not think so, nor did most of American history, except recent and current decades. Self-enlightenment, pluralistic "truth," fluctuating morality, and subjective reality have since declared that the past be updated, the creation and implementation of what is now the United States of America be reconstructed, and the text and lives of those from the past be torn down and rewritten, and the people be reeducated with the current winds of today.

As was posted on the Ten Commandments at the Kentucky schools before removal, "the secular application of the Ten Commandments is clearly seen in its adoption as the fundamental legal code of Western Civilization and the Common Law of the United States."

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