The first four commandments clearly tell us that God is a
narcissistic asshole.
History takes note that the commandment Thou shall not kill was never considered during the Crusades and the Holy Inquisition as millions were being exterminated. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you.
These ten commandments are the bedrock of christian and jewish morality. Despite these ten commandments, the imaginary sky fairy does allow for slavery, incest and does not say anything about pedophelia. Thus, it is OK to molest little boys and girls.
It is also OK to own people as property.
How cool is that?
I've never examined what black and brown people think about us white people.
The Ten Comandments Aren't the Foundation of Western Law Unfortunately, since their is simply no evidence of the Exodus we can conclude that Moses never existed, the Mt. Sinai encountered ner happened and the jews were never in Egypt. ![]()
Christian groups have tried more or less successfully to post the Ten Comandments in courthouses, schools, legislative houses, and other governmental buildings. The argument is that they are the moral or historical foundation of western law. But they most certainly are not the foundation of western law. The first four have been codified in various forms throughout history, but making any them into law would today violate the anti establishment clause of the First Amendment: "1. You shall have no other gods before me. 2. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Currently the law is much more interested in protecting children from abusive parents than it is with making people honor their parents: "5. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." "6.You shall not murder," and "8. You shall not steal," are close to universal and were the law of the land long before Christianity or Judaism. "7.You shall not commit adultery," is currently falling out of many western criminal codes. But like murder and theft, adultery was a crime long before The Ten Comandments were ever thought of. "9. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor." Libel and perjury were not invented with the Ten Comandments either. And Christians currently don't seem very interested in enforcing or following this commandment. "10. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." This one is perplexing. Has any country ever outlawed envy? And there are so many crimes not covered by the Ten Comandments: rape, trespass, assault and battery, child abuse and neglect, spousal abuse, desecration of a corpse, arsen, animal abuse. Absent also are many disputed "crimes" Christians want codified: birth control, pre marital sex, abortion, homosexuality, perverted sex, drunkenness, recreational drugs, and cursing (read the text, nothing against saying f$$k there).
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Exodus 20 version 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. And here, from Exodus 34, is the set with which God replaced them: 1. Thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. 4. All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 5. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest. 6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven. 8. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. 9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. 10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. =========================================================================== https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ra507w/poor_moses_in_mount_sinai/ People forget, or they say they do, that after our boy, Moses destroyed the first set of commandments; a week or so later, God gave him a second set. It's weird that the set destroyed by a vile and vicious act of Moses ets remembered, but the set God went out of his way to give Moses gets the boot. As below: No covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Destroy all pagan worship places. No Idolatry Keep the Feasts of Unleavened Bread. Firstborn males belong to God Keep the Sabbath on the 7th day even in plowing and harvest. Men to appear thrice a year before God. No leavened sacrifice or leaving the Passover until morning. Bring first fruits to the house of the LORD. And always a favorite... 10. Don't boil a young goat in its mother's milk. As yu can see, our good Lord fixed the ten commandments, but left off
Do not rape
What's wrong with the Ten Commandments?  R. W. Carmichael Former Intelligence Analyst at U.S. Air Force (1962-1970)Upvoted by Renee Cyr , M.A in Religious Studies Religion & Philosophy, Muhlenberg CollegeSep 14 I hate to do this, but a good illustration of what is wrong with the Ten Commandments can be found in the Louisiana laws that state that a specific version of the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms and public places. In Judaism, there were never "ten" commandments. By Judaic count, it is over 613 Commandments that were received from God. So it is something that is common ONLY to Christianity. Even though Islam is an Abrahamic religion that derives from Judaism, just as Christianity, the Quran includes some commandments that are similar to the Ten Commandments, but there is no official document in Islam that is equivalent to the Ten Commandments. Even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments are dramatically different between Catholicism and Protestantism. They are numbered differently and have different wordings and content. So which one did Louisiana choose to be the "official" version of the Ten Commandments that is mandated by law to be displayed? The Jewish version? Nope - too long. The Muslim version? Nope - doesn't exist. The Catholic Version? Nope - too Papist. The Protestant version? Nope again - it was considered too unnecessarily wordy. So what version was used? The "official" Louisiana version of the Ten Commandments came from an old movie entitled (not surprisingly) called "The Ten Commandments" and starring Charlton Heston. Back in 1956 film resolution was not that great. So in the movie the entire Ten Commandments (regardless of version) could not fit on the tablets and still be legible. So the movie created an "executive summary" of the Ten Commandments for the movie and loosely translated that into proto-Hebrew. This version, translated into English, cannot be found in any religious document, but only in a movie and Louisiana classrooms. This illustrates what is wrong with the Ten Commandments. There really is no such thing historically or religiously. There are just various versions and takes on it. And the Christian nationalists that are driving these sorts of decisions know almost nothing about their own religion. So they depend on old movies to tell them what is right and wrong.  This is the American version of Christianity that is being pushed down the throats of our children. |
They should hang the George Carlin revised list of 2 commandments then: I will now show you how you can reduce the number of commandments and come up with a list that's a little more workable and logical. I am going to use the Roman Catholic version because those were the ones I was taught as a little boy. Let's start with the first three: I AM THE LORD THY GOD THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH Right off the bat the first three are pure bullshit Sabbath day? Lord's name? strange gods? Spooky language! Designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious nonsense like this apply to the lives of intelligent civilized humans in the 21st century. So now we're down to 7. Next:HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER Obedience, respect for authority. Just another name for controlling people. The truth is that obedience and respect shouldn't be automatic. They should be earned and based on the parent's performance. Some parents deserve respect, but most of them don't, period. You're down to six. Now in the interest of logic, something religion is very uncomfortable with, we're going to jump around the list a little bit. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS Stealing and lying. Well actually, these two both prohibit the same kind of behavior- dishonesty. So you don't really need two you combine them and call the commandment "thou shalt not be dishonest". And suddenly you're down to 5. And as long as we're combining I have two others that belong together: THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTRY THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE Once again, these two prohibit the same type of behavior. In this case it is marital infidelity. The difference is- coveting takes place in the mind. But I don't think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else's wife because what is a guy gonna think about when he's waxing his carrot? But, marital infidelity is a good idea SO we're gonna keep this one and calí it "thou shalt not be unfaithful". And suddenly we're down to four. But when you think about it, honesty and infidelity are really part of the same overall value so, in truth, you could combine the two honesty commandments with the two fidelity commandments and give them simpler language, positive language instead of negative language and call the whole thing 'thou shalt always be honest and faithful" and were down to THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR"S GOODS This one is just plain fuckin' stupid. Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going! Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays "o come o ye faithful", and you want one too! Coveting creates jobs, so leave it alone. You throw out coveting and you re down to 2 now-the big honesty and fidelity commandment and the one we haven't talked about yet: THOU SHALT NOT KILL Murder. But when you think about it, religion has never really had a big problem with murder. More people have been killed in the name of god than for any other reason. All you have to do is look at Northern Ireland, Cashmire, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the World Trade Center to see how seriously the religious folks take thou shalt not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable. It depends on who's doin the killih' and who's gettin' killed. So, with all of this in mind,I give you my revised list of the two commandments: Thou shalt always be honest and faithful to the provider of thy nookie. & Thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone, unless of course they pray to a different invisible man than you Two is all you need; Moses could have carried them down the hill in his fuckin' pocket. I wouldn't mind those folks in Alabama posting them on the courthouse wall, as long as they provided one additional commandment: Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself |
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