Questions to Guide Your Reading

George Weigel, "Commandments as Moral Code are Tools of Liberation"

1. How does George Weigel describe the Ten Commandments?

2. The Commandments, says Weigel (echoing Pope John Paul II) are not "peremptory moral decrees of some out-of-this-world divinity."  If not, what are they?

3. They are not, continues Weigel, "imposts from 'outside' our human condition."  If not, what are they?

4. "To live freely" involves what, according to Weigel?