{"product_id":"democracy-and-the-ten-commandments-robert-kimball-shinkoskey-9781498290098","title":"Democracy and the Ten Commandments","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Kimball Shinkoskey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1498290094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781498290098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Resource Publications (CA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Robert Kimball Shinkoskey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124174942463,"sku":"9781498290098","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89a234d6-0985-4ef8-85d4-95278d217d3c.jpg?v=1687435182","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/democracy-and-the-ten-commandments-robert-kimball-shinkoskey-9781498290098","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}