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Updating the Ten Commandments: the ten Commandments may need a modern, secular facelift. (Future View).

Publication: The Futurist
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1137 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
"Decalogue" is another word for the Ten Commandments, but it is also defined as a guide to ethical behavior. In my opinion, society needs an updated version of the original Decalogue that would be more secular.

Two facts support this call for a new, secular decalogue. First, a large and growing percentage of people are either no longer adherent to or practitioners of traditional religions; thus, they lack a concrete ideological base to guide them through ethical situations. Second, the moral precepts of the Ten Commandments are inadequate for dealing with many of the ethically and morally loaded situations we face today.

A new decalogue would certainly not replace the 10 ancient mandates, but it could meet the needs of those outside traditional religious communities. It could also guide any person toward a better understanding of the unprecedented issues unfolding before us.

1. Realize that our own actions or failures to act will determine our future. People alone are in charge of this world. No hypothetical or imagined powers,...

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