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The Ten Commandments - What You REALLY Should Know

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Dennis Prager On 1 December 2014, Prager University published a video online with Dennis Prager arguing that the Ten Commandments are the best basis for a democratic, just and civilised society.  Although the video is somewhat dated, I came across it recently and given it contains more strawmen than the auditions for The Wizard of Oz, thought that it needed addressing.  In this article I refute the claims of Dennis Prager, and point out where he is not actually only wrong, but self-contradictory. "No document in world history so changed the world for the better as did the Ten Commandments." Well, that is questionable right away.  I would strongly argue that the Geneva Convention certainly made the world a better place, and if countries would only adhere to it, then the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is certainly an excellent basis for a civilised society. But what does Dennis Prager mean by the "Ten Commandments"?  Which versio