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What are the contributions of the Ten Commandments to the rise of democratic ideals?
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The first commandment, to have "no other gods but me", the second commandment, not to make carved images or any likeness of anything and not to worship that image if you do make it, and the third commandment, not to take the name of the Lord in vain, are religious instructions unrelated to democratic ideals.
The next commandment says to do no work on the Sabbath, nor to require or request others to do so or even allow an animal to do so, once again a religious instruction and almost never honoured.
The fifth commandment is to honour your father and your mother, a useful social rule, but arguably little to do with the rise of democracy.
The last five commandments define some important moral ideals: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness against your neighbour, do not covet that which belongs to your neighbour, including his wife or slave. Although only stated in general terms, they provide a foundation on which moral guides can be built. What they do not do is encourage the notions of equality, freedom, or rule of the people by the people - the ideals of democracy. The fact that the tenth commandment acknowledges the rights of a slave-owner can hardly be seen as encouraging either equality or freedom.
Democracy rose independently, or even in spite of the Ten Commandments. That democracy only began to take root in the modern world some two and a half thouand years after the Ten Commandments were written in The Bible is evidence that they did not contribute to the rise of democratic ideals.
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