Faith & Belief Topic, I'm sure. Don't know how much of this is "debatable" but it might make an interesting discussion.
Seems to me that the judeo/christian religion is awfully full of rules. (I'm sure lots of other religions are too, but I'm not nearly as familiar).
I generally think you can break down the rules into two catagories:
Thou Shall Nots -
No Killing
No Stealing
No Worshiping Cows
etc.
and the Thou Shalls -
Love thy neighbor
Honor thy Mother and Father
etc.
I'm sure there are people here who are far more versed (lol pun intended) in the bible to help compile a list of sorts.
My main point of conversation here is this -
It seems that the Thou Shall Nots are very well defined. You definitely know if you are violating it. However, the Thou Shalls are in a big old gray area.
Is this the nature of good and evil? Is this because so many of the Nots come from the Old Testament and so many of the Shalls come from the New? Is it that knowing how to do the right thing is often much harder than knowing how to do the wrong thing?
Discuss.
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