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Democracy and the Ten Commandments: The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible
Democracy and the Ten Commandments: The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible
Democracy and the Ten Commandments: The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible
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For 2,000 years Western culture has leaned heavily on the Ten Commandments for guidance in religion, ethics, and morality. The author, drawing upon modern Biblical science, demonstrates that those laws were designed for an entirely different purpose--to provide alternatives to repressive policies Israel reeled under in Egypt. The Decalogue is a political document designed to limit government intrusion into private lives. Its precepts deal with matters like political parties and intellectual freedom, central banking and taxation, occupational choice, free economy, humane working conditions, local government, right to life and international relations, land possession and inheritance, equal justice and education, and citizenship and public health.

The author's interpretation necessitates a wholesale repositioning of Biblical religion. The Bible is not a book about religious worship, but is rather a book about citizen-empowered local democracy. This essay suggests a way out of the woods for an American democracy that has lost its way in a headlong veer toward heavy-handed central government.
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Release dateJul 12, 2016
ISBN9781498290104
Democracy and the Ten Commandments: The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible
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Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

Robert Kimball Shinkoskey is an independent scholar and author of Do My Prophets No Harm and Biblical Captivity: Aggression and Oppression in the Ancient World. He now examines the progressive concentration of power in the executive branch of the national government by popular American presidents of both political parties.

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