The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3744661
Posted By: Steve Shaw
17-Oct-15 - 10:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
'But most of the Ten Commendments, I doubt if too many people would actually disagree with them as a guide to how we need to try to behave to each other."

Well I certainly disagree with commandments that tell us that there is one true God and you must have no others, that you are not allowed to have graven images (think of all that religious art that we must destroy!), that we must keep one day a week "holy", that we should honour our parents in order to gain greater advantage (yes, that bit really is in there!), that we should treat our women in the same way as our goods and chattels and that mere thoughts can be sinful. And it's hard to take lessons on killing from a murderous man who condoned a public stoning "on God's orders" (I believe that one was for gathering sticks on the Sabbath. Something like that). Nice. And so much is missed out. Hate me all you like for suggesting this, but go on to YouTube and search for Christopher Hitchens revising the Ten Commandments. As he says at the end of the short video, don't swallow your moral code in tablet form!