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TAKES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CONFERENCE RAISES QUESTION: SHOULD THEY BE LAW OR SELF-HELP SUGGESTIONS?(LOCAL)
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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
| Date:
April 9, 2006
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Byline: WILLIAM R. WINEKE bwineke@madison.com 608.252-6146
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai did he carry with him Ten Commandments or were they 10 suggestions?
It's a question asked rhetorically by many preachers (though it was raised first by journalist Ted Koppel) but the answer isn't as simple as one might first assume.
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, a Colgate University religion professor, notes that the vast majority of the hundreds of books ...