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2126 Atheism is often based on a false conception of human autonomy, exaggerated to the point of refusing any dependence on God. ⁶³ Yet, "to acknowledge God is in no way to oppose the dignity of man, since such dignity is grounded and brought to perfection in God...." ⁶⁴ "For the Church knows full well that her message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart." ⁶⁵

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PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

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SECTION TWO: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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CHAPTER ONE: YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND

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ARTICLE 1: THE FIRST COMMANDMENT I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or 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 or serve them. 3 It is written: "You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve." 4

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III. "YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME"

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63 Cf. GS 20 § 1.

64 GS 21 § 3.

65 GS 21 § 7.

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