hey more passing interest, did you know that the formerSoviet Union had a moral code, which can be linked?

Question

superficially to the ten commandments.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_Code_of_the_Builder_of_Communism

kind of wierd since it was a police state for quite a while.

Answer 1

Not wierd at all. The former Soviet Union was an atheistic Godless state. Any Godless state will sooner or later end up either in anarchy or a police state.
If there is no God then there are no absolutes. If there are no absolutes then there is no such thing as right and wrong. Right and wrong are just whatever the culture defines them to be in a Godless society. Our christian culture says you're supposed to love your neighbor. Some cultures down in the amazon say you're suppose to eat your neighbor. A government can define right and wrong just by man made law that is not based upon anything higher. But man has a natural bent toward evil. It's inherent in him. If you don't agree with that, your argument is not with me but with 6000 years of human history. Being bent toward evil he will always water down those laws because those laws are not based upon anything but the governments opinion. It's as if God has established those laws and man always wants to be free to live in any licentious manner he pleases.. Eventually, you come to one of two end results: 1)the morality keeps getting watered down and watered down until you have anarchy in your nation because no one has any morals. 2)You need more and more force to enforce those man made opinions(laws) that are not based upon anything ultimate(God) and pretty soon you have a totalitarian government. So you always end up with one of two end results.....either you end up with anarchy or a police state.
Francis Schaeffer, that great christian philosopher, used to say that liberals always bring on the thing they hate most......totalitarianism. What he meant was that they keep whittling down the morality in a nation until the only way you can keep order is with storm troops and a gestapo.
Mao Zedong understood this perfectly well. He said " the only real morality is at the point of a bayonette. In his society that was true. He was a communist and his state was atheistic. An atheistic state doesn't allow for a God. As I said at the beginning....if there is no God there are no absolutes......if there are no absolutes there is no such thing as right and wrong ........if there is no such thing as right and wrong then sooner or later you will need bayonettes to keep the peace.
Just read their moral code. One of the codes says " Humane relations and mutual respect between individuals: man is to man a friend, a comrade, and a brother". Another said "Irreconcilability towards injustice". YEAH RIGHT. They slaughtered 70 million of their own people between 1917 and 1989.

http://www.intouch.org/index_76034.html

http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php

http://www.livingwaters.com/listenwatch.shtml

Answer 2

yes at the same time they repressed everybody who was against communism, killed all priests and religious people ( as religion was prohgibited), shout out all nobel and intelligent families of previous tzar Russia ( some of them immigrated to Europe), created utopia of equality and socializm, put the border around the country preventing people to go abroad..

I was born in Soviet Union and I was there during Perestroika time. There was nothing good in communism

Answer 3

Very strange indeed. In practice their 11th commandment would be: if someone has anything material more than the rest , whether inherited or self produced, it shall be take from him and he shall be sent to Siberia for an education.

Answer 4

The Soviet code of "morality" was whatever served their interest. As Lenin said, "It would not matter if three quarters of the world perished, as long as the remaining one quarter remains communist."