Which version would we post in a courthouse?

I interviewed a Catholic nun yesterday for a story I’m writing on the 10 Commandments. She rocked my world by telling me that the Catholics, Protestants and Jews each group the commandments differently. I must be living under a rock, because I did not know this. I thought they were universally the same 10 rules. I feel like an idiot.

Turns out that although they Are the same overall commandments, if you asked three people — one Catholic, one Methodist, one Jew — to rattle off all 10 of ‘em, they’d have different answers. And they’d all be “right.” (That is, if they could name them at all, which is a whole other issue...)

Is there anything in this world we can all agree on? Anything?!

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