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The Commandments How does this commandment reveal God’s desire for justice? 7 You shall not steal. DEUTERONOMY 5:19 Theft is taking someone else’s property against that person’s reasonable will. We have a right to our own property; we must respect the rights of others to their own property and the fruits of their labor, which is due to them. 8 You shall not bear dishonest witness against your neighbor. DEUTERONOMY 5:20 9 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. DEUTERONOMY 5:21A 10 You shall not desire your neighbor’s house or field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. DEUTERONOMY 5:21B 118 © SOPHIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS
HANDOUT B A Just Hierarchy of Values Part I Directions: Read the essay, then answer the question that follows. Since no one in society can do everything at once, and no one has infinite resources, individuals and governments must make choices about which values to spend time and resources on. Therefore, a just society and government must have the correct priorities. (To prioritize something means to give it greater importance, or have it come before other things.) Just as some sins are more serious than others, some values are more important than others. The greatest example of this is human life. Life is the most important value. Without the right to life, no other rights are possible. Therefore protecting human life from conception to natural death must be at the top of any just government’s priorities. The USCCB’s document Living the Gospel of Life explains, “[A]bortion and euthanasia have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and the condition for all others.” Some issues can be honestly debated by Christians, but some policies must always be opposed. The policies that must always be opposed are those that are always wrong, such as allowing the killing of unborn babies in the womb or laws permitting euthanasia or assisted suicide. These actions are always wrong, no matter what the circumstances. They also always have direct, clear effects: for example, in an abortion, a baby always dies. Euthanasia always results in an elderly, sick, or disabled person being killed. Others policies require more discernment because their effects may not always match up with their intentions: they may not always do what they set out to do. For this reason, they can be honestly debated. For example, it may be hard to tell if a policy intended to help the poor actually helps the poor; a law intended to improve education may actually harm it; law intended to help the environment may not actually help it, and/or it might require balancing with other important values. Therefore, these policies can and should be debated by Christians in good conscience. The Chuch has a responsibility to make judgments in these matters when the dignity of the human person and the salvation of souls is at stake. What is the difference between those policies that must always be opposed, and those which can be honestly debated? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ © SOPHIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS 119
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