The Second Commandment says…
You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. Exodus 20:4
Why would the Catholic leadership want to cancel this commandment from the 10 Commandments?
Answer: because they don’t want the people knowing that God forbids them from doing exactly what Catholicism teaches them to do.
Bow down and worship statues of Jesus or Mary or dead saints.
Not good.
JLB
So the link has nothing to do with the thread title.
And this thread is just more Catholic bashing.
There are two differences between Catholics and (most but not all) Protestants in the format of the Ten Commandments.
1. Catholics use the list in Deuteronomy 5 rather that Ex 20.
2. There are actually more that ten commandments in both lists so they have to be concatenated. Catholics and Lutherans do it one way, other Protestants and Orthodox do it another way and Jews a third way.
The list from Deuteronomy 5:6-21 is
1st Commandment
6 “‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
7 “‘You shall have no other gods before[
a] me.
8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
9 you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
10 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
2nd Commandment
11 “‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
3rd Commandment
12 “‘Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
13 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
14 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.
15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
4th Commandment
16 “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
5th Commandment
17 “‘You shall not kill.
6th Commandment
18 “‘Neither shall you commit adultery.
7th Commandment
19 “‘Neither shall you steal.
8th Commandment
20 “‘Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
9th Commandment
21 “‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife;
10th Commandment
and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’
Wikipedia has a useful chart showing this:
Ten Commandments
Scroll down to see the chart.
Nothing is omitted; nothing is cancelled.
Personally I think the way Catholics (and Lutherans) do this with Dt 5:1-8 (or Ex 20:2-4) makes more sense than splitting them into two.