Mind reading and false -- obviously
Where is your citation for what you offered as "The Catholic ten commandments"?
On what basis EXACTLY do you claim that the version you posted is "THE>Catholic version?
You can, if you like, say what the conversation was about. that does not concern me,. In your effort to make a point, you said something that struck me as not only false but embarrassingly false. I was going to ignore it, but smvoice taunted us with not responding to that particular point. SO I responded to that particular point.I was using the example of the Ten Commandments as one illustration of how the scriptures have been manipulated by the RCC.
And the point is false, as I showed from quoting both versions of the Decalogue as translated in the NAB, the copyright to which is owned, I am told, by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops who require us to use it in our Masses -- so it don't get much more Catholic than that.
I do know that as a boy in the Episcopal Church I was not asked to memorize both the Deuteronomy and the Exodus versions of the Decalogue, but shortened version.
Also if you read the links I provided in answer to smvoice, you will see that our way of numbering seems to have started with Augustine, a man much loved of reform Christians, and is used by many Lutherans.
So whatever the large history of Catholics and the Bible is, this particular point you made was false. And that's all I was addressing.
As it happens, I do think there is a legitimate comparison between,on the one hand, the damaging effect of pornography and the damaging effect of the kind of fascination with the purported evil of Catholics that one sees often on FR. I insinuated nothing. I made an analogy.
Obviously.
This “official” enough for you?
http://www.roman-catholic-catechism.com/catholic-ten-commandments.html
>> So whatever the large history of Catholics and the Bible is, this particular point you made was false.<<
No, it’s not false as I illustrate in the above referenced site. Your “shortened version” stands as evidence of the subtle yet effective method the RC uses. They try to cover themselves now that the Bible has been made so readily available but it stands that they have “traditionally” attempted to hide or at least deemphasize parts of the Ten Commandments. Your comment about memorizing the “shortened version” would also illustrate.
I don’t care “who started it” or who uses it. Eliminating or attempts to minimize sections of scripture is tantamount to deceit.
Pointing to differences between Catholic teaching and scripture is not damaging to anyone other then Catholic teaching.