instead of the existing first three commandments included the following three substitutes. Thou shalt not engage in war, tribe against tribe, nation against nation, race against race. War is abhorrent to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not enslave other human beings; thou shalt not own slaves, neither shall thy relatives or employees own slaves. Slavery is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not hate, mistreat or malign other human beings because of the color of their skin. Can there be much disagreement that humanity would have fared much better with these three commandments at the
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