atheism and children

[abaris]

The Ten Commandments can be summed up in that one word, sacred. Your life is sacred, your work is sacred, your time is sacred, family is sacred, marriage is sacred, your property is sacred and so is your neighbors.

I would sum them up differently. The attempt at some kind of primitive law giving to an otherwise lawless and half nomadic society. That's how I always understood them. At least when I was no longer a child. You actually have to compare them to what other societies in the same region at the same time already had written down to get to the primitive part. Entirely human with not too broad a horizon and certainly not something you would expect from a superior being.