Did you notice something?

"Thou shalt not kill" is a mis translation. Oh, well that's alright then.

Tell you what, if I were religious, I would have grave issues with such logic chopping in the name of something I hold dear.

Sorry, but the more I read, the more I notice blinkered tacit acceptance of how religion is a tool for more temporal aims. Here in The UK we have had issues with people who want a punch up in the name of fun associate themselves with football teams and of course as a football fan, I am quick to point out that their actions are not those of a football fan, but an ignorant thug who must hate football enough to embroil it in such bad news stories.

In a similar way, there are those who make a travesty of people's spiritual faith. It must be frustrating if you are of the persuasion that anything written over a certain number of years ago must be divine. "Not in my name" is the usual cry of the indignant. Never occurs to anybody that their flavour of religion is, and only can be, the sum of all its activities and actions. So, to say violence in the name of a religion is nothing to do with the religion is, in the final analysis, picking and choosing to say the least. No matter, the old testament doesn't exactly teach morals that hold up in a civilised society, so thankfully, the vast majority of decent sane people gloss over their inferred creed. Virtuous hypocrisy is nothing to be ashamed of....