The Old Ten Commandments
I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Advocates jealousy and denies choice. Eliminate it.
II. Thou
shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor 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: thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them,
nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon
the fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing loving kindness
unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Again God advocating jealousy with the added crap of him putting the
sins of the fathers upon the children for 100 years. It also bodes
poorly for the billion or so Catholics who live in mortal sin for
producing, praying to and looking at crucifixes, statues, paintings,
engravings, and glass works of saints, angels, icons, renditions of
Madonna and Jesus or any other thing. Eliminate it.
III. Thou
shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will
not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Touches upon heresy. Though swearing is not nice it’s not a mortal sin on par with murder. Eliminate it.
IV. Observe
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is
a Sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy
maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy
maid-servant may rest as well as thou. And thou shalt remember that
thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought
thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore
Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.
Though it may be nice for God to give we lowly humans a day off, this
is absurd as a mortal sin. Billions of people break this every week.
Not only shift workers, store clerks, police, fire fighters, emergency
crews, but home owning grass cutters and leaf rakers. Also note it
states slavery is accepted by God. Eliminate it.
V. Honor
thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy
days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which
Jehovah thy God giveth thee. Keeper, but eliminate the extraneous gratuities and centering this upon only Israel.
VI. Thou shalt not kill. Keeper, stipulate further.
VII. Neither shalt thou commit adultery. Keeper though make more inclusive.
VIII. Neither shalt thou steal. Keeper.
IX. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. Keeper.
X. Neither
shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s wife; neither shalt thou desire thy
neighbor’s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant,
his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.
Another confirmation of slavery. Covet, meaning desire, plays upon
envy. Envy is not nice but not a mortal sin. Eliminate it.
The New Improved Ten Commandments
I. Honor your parents.
II. Thou shalt not kill, period.
III. Neither shalt thou steal.
IV. Neither shalt thou break any contract made in good faith.
V. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against others.
VI. Neither shalt thou enter the circle of vengeance.
VII. Teach thy children well.
VIII. Do unto others as you would have them do onto you.
IX. Love thy neighbor as yourself.
X. Thou shalt clean up any mess thy maketh.
Or…
Why not counter the Republican bleating about putting
the Ten Commandments in our schools and courthouses not with a secular argument but play their game? As this is a Christian Nation why would we want Jewish laws on our walls, after all, they are all going to Hell anyway? Rather, let us list Christ’s Beatitudes from
the Sermon on the Mount and put those up.
Fat chance hey?