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Written in Stone: How the Ten Commandments Strengthen and Heal Our World
Who Said This? "The Ten Commandments are . . . unsuited and inadequate to modern needs." The answer is the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman) - but it could have been any number of modern-day skeptics. The once "shocking" views of such skeptics are now held by countless millions and sustained by unceasing propaganda from Hollywood, public schools, the government, and the pervasive media. The result? A widespread moral meltdown, unprecedented in human history, whose catastrophic consequences are just beginning to be felt and fully understood. The good news is there is hope. But the hour is even later than when Fr. P. J. Gannon spelled out our stark choices some sixty-five years "Humanity has really two courses open to it - to get back to clear thinking and right moral principles, or to continue its perilous drift toward the abyss." Those "right moral principles" derive from the very Decalogue spurned by elites, pas
115 pages, Paperback
Published August 23, 2022
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May 19, 2023
Wow! It was amazing to read Fr. Gannon's words from the 1930's and see how well his homilies on the ten commandments apply to living in the world today. Alas, as the world has changed much, human nature has not. We are still wrestling with the same issues our forefathers grappled. Thank you, Sophia Press, for reprinting this book so that modern readers may peruse Fr. Gannon's insightful words. This was a quick but thoughtful read.
On a side note, prose was more advanced in that day and it is sad to see how "dumbed down" our speech has become.
On a side note, prose was more advanced in that day and it is sad to see how "dumbed down" our speech has become.
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