the catechism of the Catholic Church.
It's All About Love, Peace, faith, hope, and charity.
"I know thy works, and
charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols."(Rev.2:19-20)
Catholic Bible
1. You shall not have other gods besides me.
{here's where the warning against all of your idols belongs}
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day
4. Honor your father and your mother
5. You shall not kill
6. You shall not commit adultery
7. You shall not steal
8. You shall not bear false witness
9.
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. 10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods
{These last two are both Commandment 10... splitting it in half doesn't fool anyone.}
Exodus 20:3-17
1 Thou shalt have no other gods beside me.
2 Thou shalt not make to thyself an idol, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me, and bestowing mercy on them that love me to thousands of them, and on them that keep my commandments.
3 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
4 Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days thou shalt labour, and shalt perform all thy work. But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt do no work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy servant nor thy maidservant, thine ox nor thine ***, nor any cattle of thine, nor the stranger that sojourns with thee. For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and the sea and all things in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
5 Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the good land, which the Lord thy God gives to thee.
6 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7 Thou shalt not steal.
8 Thou shalt not kill.
9 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; nor his field, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his [burro], nor any of his cattle, nor whatever belongs to thy neighbour.
"And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And
I will kill her children with Death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works."(Rev.2:22-23)
Idolatry is Adultery against God.
Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation 18:4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. ... 18:24 And in her was found
the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."
ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT
"Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ;
Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones,
Forget not : in thy book record their groans
Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold
Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled
Mother and infant down the rocks. Their moans
The vales redoubled to the hills, and they
To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O'er all th' Italian fields, where still doth sway
The triple Tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe."
--John Milton, 1655.
