The Ten Commands your views!
Reading a good book called "How to talk to liberals if you must" forget writters name.There was a short story in there about a teacher having a kid throw away a bible becaues of the ten commands being hate crimes!
Do you think it is?I say it is in the bible and that there is no hate crimes in there at all that I had noted or read.What do you guys think of this?(If anyone insults or flames me they will be ignore)jm 😎
So, I don't know how many Canadians will read this, but if anyone knows Peter Mansbridge, he is our #1 newscaster and he has this show called Mansbridge 1 on 1.
So, one of the episodes is him interviewing Anne Coulter. During this interview Coulter says something like "Canada has always supported American wars, look at Vietnam"
Now, as a brief history lesson, Canada was very much opposed to Vietnam, and we gave asylum to people fleeing to Canada in order to avoid the draft into the war.
So, this is probably the image that always comes to my mind when I think of her. Some dumb b*tch who has the gall to sit in front of probably the most trusted man in Canada and say "oh no, Canada was in Vietnam, you are wrong".
Then there is the fact that she recently called one of the democratic candidates for president a f-a-g (which got a huge applause where she was speaking).
Honestly, I wouldn't trust a word that comes out of her mouth, especially little anecdotes. The entire right wing of American politics is anti-intellectual, so it doesn't surprise me that she would take shots like that at teachers.
EDIT: Man, the auto-censor feature is dumb
Re: The Ten Commands your views!
Originally posted by ADarksideJedi😐
I say it is in the bible and that there is no hate crimes in there at all
As for the title, I say the ten commandments are out of date and useless and stupid.
Thou Shalt Not Lie? How many Christians have broken that rule? Bare in mind:
Sex, History, Rights, Santa, Science, and the Bible itself.
Originally posted by Nellinator
Yes.
The commandments are not outdated, the last six are common sense, the first four aren't applicable if you don't believe.
You can't pick and choose. 😱 The ten commandments are not current law. In that way, they are out dated. We have laws that parallel the ten commandments, but they are not the same.
1. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Not a hate crime. I think god just wants a "Thank You.".......lol......though some take this a bit far as meaning don't put anything before god, even your TV, your mind, your books, your church, your family, kids......etc.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.Don't be mean to god that helped you....not a hate crime.
3. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or 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. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.Well god shouldn't be worried about a false god if he's the only god. This is jealousy and a human flaw.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Now there's even more rules. God needs a special day? BTW people don't keep this day.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long.This is a good rule, but what if your parents aren't normal..
6. Thou shalt not kill.Kill is different from murder. Though in the OT it was an eye for an eye. It was ok to murder for the right reason it seems.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.Everybody had a biz zillion wives and concubines. Sooo what does this really mean.
8. Thou shalt not steal.I agree with this. But is it a sin to borrow and pay back without ones permission?
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.This one is excellent!
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.This is pretty good too. Envy leads to worse things not yet seen.
Some historians believe that the Ten Commandments originated from ancient Egyptian religion, and postulate that the Biblical Jews borrowed the concept after their Exodus from Egypt. Chapter 125 of the Book of the Dead (the Papyrus of Ani) includes a list of things to which a man must swear in order to enter the afterlife. These sworn statements bear a remarkable resemblance to the Ten Commandments in their nature and their phrasing. These statements include "not have I defiled the wife of man," "not have I committed murder," "not have I committed theft," "not have I lied," "not have I cursed god," "not have I borne false witness," and "not have I abandoned my parents." The Book of the Dead has additional requirements, and, of course, doesn't require worship of YHWH.