the 10 suggestions
being in the distinct minority of americans who can actually recite the ten commandments (including the preamble), let’s go on record saying that contrary to popular right wing meme, they have nothing to do with being the basis of our laws
ones that are laws or close enough:
- though shall not kill
- though shall not steal
- though shall not bear false witness
ones that are not even remotely laws
- you shall not have other gods before me
- you shall not take the lord’s name in vain
- you shall keep the sabbath day holy
- honor thy mother and thy father
- thou shall not commit adultery
- thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife
- thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s possessions
and as a bonus, since no society ever thought that murder, stealing, and lying under oath were good ideas, we can say that america doesn’t in fact follow anything that’s unique about the ten commandments.
that’s using the catholic commandments btw, if you’re protestant then drop the ‘name in vain’ and add ‘no graven images’ and i think some other minor changes too.
next week: why the constitution doesn’t even remotely say what you think it does