Here's the spiritual part of my "King James and Uncle Sam" thinking. The bible is the rule and guide to my faith and practice, my moral compass.
English Standard Version
1) You shall
have no other gods before me.
2) You shall
not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the
third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast
love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
3) You shall
not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
4) Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do
all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you
shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant,
or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your
gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is
in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and made it holy.
5) Honor
your father and your mother, that your days may be long in
the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
6) You shall
not murder.
7) You shall
not commit adultery.
8) You shall
not steal.
9) You shall
not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10)
You shall not covet your
neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male
servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is
your neighbor’s.
So mote it be.
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