the 10 suggestions

.e — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:07:26 +0000

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

smack my bishop

.e — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:15:28 +0000

the catholic church decided to bar a congresscritter from communion cause he failed to vote against abortion. to be honest i hope this practice takes off as america still has a huge bias against atheism and this makes it clear that atheism is not just not believing in god, but also a conscious decision to eschew religion as the gods available all seem to behave like very human spoiled children

in less serious, i heard a cute response to “god asked me to pray for you” which was “well tell him to man up and talk to me directly and not go behind my back like this spreading rumors”.

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the 10 suggestions

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