Of the Bible’s Ten Commandments, only two (VI and VII) proscribe activities that secular law regards as criminal. It is not illegal in the United States to: have another God before Yahweh; manufacture graven images (for instance, pieces of granite with Scriptural texts described on them); say “God damn it” when you spill the ketchup; […]
Commandments Quotes
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness… to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And the message is clear and concise: Go to hell.
Here is my problem with the ten commandments – why exactly are there 10? You simply do not need ten. The list of ten commandments was artificially and deliberately inflated to get it up to ten. Here’s what happened: About 5,000 years ago a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to try to […]
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man… living in the sky… who watches every thing you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special things that he does not want you to […]
The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god – that there’s a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn’t want you to do and you’ll burn for a long time if you do them – and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a […]
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few […]
The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion.
“Thou shalt not get found out” is not one of God’s commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is that they were handed down direct, and not through several committees.
