The Real Ten Commandments

10/06/2012 28 min

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Rev. Meg Barnhouse's sermon delivered on June 10, 2012. It is often said that our nation's ethics derive from the Ten Commandments of Moses. If you look closely at them, though, they don't reflect American values very well at all. Solon the Athenian was born around 638 B.C.E. In 594 B.C.E he was elected to create a constitution for Athens, in the process becoming the founder of Western democracy and an early proponent of equal rights for all citizens.

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