Recommended Article For the Day

I'm sure Gersh Kuntzman gets enough readership without my faint effort
to help, but hey, this is my blog. I can recommend whatever I damn
well fell like. :D

Just How Many Commandments Are There Anyway?

And if the article is no longer available through that link, you can
always find them on Gersh's personal website.

And I hate to be a spoilsport on another score, but there are far
more than 10 commandments in the so-called Ten Commandments. Not to
quote a God in which I don't believe, but in Exodus, chapter 20, I
count at least 19 demands that come directly from God.

That kinda reminds me of book 4 and 5 of the trilogy, yes, I
said trilogy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :D

For argument purposes, hubby (who's a self proclaimed theist, which I
tend to block that fact out of my mind for the most part) believed
that the 10 commandment display should be allowed to stay because of
"historical value." That's such bull! Yeah, historically the "founding
fathers" were all bible-thumpers. It is no longer the case in this
country. The beauty of this country (some would argue that) is the
fact that we are made up of immigrants from a variety of cultures and
with different values/religious belief. What's "historical" needs to
change with time!

Then again, this is a country that favors going backward. We
have a president that's picked out by God ("a calling from beyond the
stars"). People are working on banning aborption again.
Forget about modern day contraception, we are going to go with the
abstinence-only route (and no pre-marital fornication! Does the fact
that divorce rate is HIGHER in bible states mean anything to these
people? Obviously not. Anything not mentioned in the bible is probably
beyond their capability to comprehend. Duh!) Oh yeah, and don't forget
to take evolution OUT OF the syllabus, why would our next generation
even need to know of that concept?

Perhaps we need to introduce the concept of progression
before moving onto the "historical value" of displaying the 10
Commendments.

For what it's worth, here's a version of the 10 Commandments that I've
fond online:

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth.'

THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'

SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet
your neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour's.'