What happens when children are raised by parents who have no moral compass? What happens when our citizens fail to live peacefully in their communities? What happens when we have leaders that lie? What happens when a young person robs someone? What happens when a policeman is shot and dies? We put our citizens in jail. Most of the time it's our children..our young adults we put in prison.
Why should children be taught the Ten Commandments?
Because character always has consequences. The Commandments are the universal foundation of all ethics. They are the cornerstone of Western Law, Western Ethics and Western Morality. They are the standard by which people are judged. They are the starting point for all who want to live in community. The Ten Commandments are God's instruction for all human conduct and a standard for moral living. The Ten Commandments should be seen as the fundamental life-style of all voluntary and accepted self-discipline...without which our nation cannot survive.

We must feed the mind.
It takes more than material and physical needs to give a child proper care. The mind and character need to be nurtured. Children need to be taught how to live. They need to know what is wrong and what is the right way to live. They need to know God.

We must feed the mind with the character of God. We must open the heart to the love of God. We must quicken the conscience, the spirit, the soul to the holiness of God. That is what the Ten Commandments teach. That is what all children need.

The Ten Commandments have been time-tested and they work! They have been neglected more and more over time. America needs more citizens with moral character. America needs more leaders with moral character. Children need good role models. Children need the joy of having character that leads to successful, productive living. Success and failure are determined by character.

God's power to shape the future is already here.
There is no police force, no political body persuasive enough to restrain the evil in man's heart without teaching the life giving, God-breathed words found in the Ten Commandments.

"Democracy is nothing but an attempt to apply the principles of the Bible to human society."
Walter C. Spears
 
 
 

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