Comments on: How Many Can You Name?

By: steve talbert

steve talbert — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:29:45 +0000

i really hope this goes to the supreme court so they can tell us whose religion is the correct one and who are the others with fake commandments.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:28:37 +0000

My Unitarian church is praticularly found of the following passage from Micah (6:8)

What does God require of thee, But to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?

I think that sums up the spirit of the Bible fairly well.

By: mdhåtter

mdhåtter — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:02:34 +0000

My Unitarian church has the ten commandmewnts up.

HUGE.

By: Kenneth Moyle

Kenneth Moyle — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:22:19 +0000

One question not addressed here is that of which Ten Commandments: the standard Protestant list or the standard RC list? Presumably the former. Still lots of room for knicker twisting. And then we get into which translation. Though I suppose that those demanding the display know full well that God speaks sixteenth-century English. And presumably, Jews have there own way of turning the rambling commandments of Exodus and Deuteronomy into a Top Ten List. Wikipedia has a useful summary of the lists and their histories, btw. I note in passing that post-Reformation Anglican churches used to display the Ten Commandments in the sanctuary; this is rarely considered tasteful now.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:29:04 +0000

From Bierce:

Thou shalt no God but me adore:
‘Twere too expensive to have more.

No images nor idols make
For Robert Ingersoll to break.

Take not God’s name in vain; select
A time when it will have effect.

Work not on Sabbath days at all,
But go to see the teams play ball.

Honor thy parents. That creates
For life insurance lower rates.

Kill not, abet not those who kill;
Thou shalt not pay thy butcher’s bill.

Kiss not thy neighbor’s wife, unless
Thine own thy neighbor doth caress

Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete
Successfully in business. Cheat.

Bear not false witness — that is low –
But “hear ’tis rumored so and so.”

Covet thou naught that thou hast not
By hook or crook, or somehow, got.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:23:24 +0000

I guess the fact that so few people can recite the 10 Commandments proves we desparately need them to be posted every 10 feet. I can’t ever remember the ones about tax cuts and fucking over the poor for corporate profits.

By: Yahoo Liberal

Yahoo Liberal — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:35:51 +0000

8.1) But Baptist preacher can fuck his wife

By: Ross A Lincoln

Ross A Lincoln — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:15:48 +0000

I can name all ten!

1) I am the lord thy god, the ayatolla of rock n rolla, master of ceremonies and lord of the dance, etc and so forth
2) Be true to your school
3) Don’t take my name in vain, which shouldn’t be difficult since you spell it YHWH, which for all you know could mean “yahoo-wahoo”
4) No fatties
5) Yngwie who?
6) Yngwie fucking Malmsteen, that’s who
7) Thou Shalt explain to me just what the hell “covet” means.
8) Thou shalt not commit adultry. Casual is fine.
9) Up up, down down, left right, left right, abab, select start
10)All your base are belong to the Lord

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:00:56 +0000

By the way, the two Torah passages that Jesus is citing are Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviticus 19:18, neither are from Exodus.

Deuteronomy 6:4 plays a central role in Jewish Prayer, while Leviticus 19:18 was described by Rabbi Hillel as “The entire Torah, the rest a mere commentary,” [Bavli Shabbat 31a] so it’s not just Jesus who say these two as important.