A New Ten Commandments

Ten Commandments For Today

  1. Thou shall not culturally appropriate other people's religions into your own — like the Ten Commandments into Christianity, for it can/could be seen as anti-Semitic

  2. You shall not exclude Arabs from Semitic protections

  3. You shall realize that the Shabbat is the 7th day, and it starts at sunset in the Jewish observance of time, not on the morning of the 8th

  4. You shall acknowledge that Mary had 'a baby out of wedlock' for another...

  5. You shall not kill people's open curiosity to seek their own path to cosmos

  6. You shall not abridge people's heretical free-choice — "Ephphatha, be opened!" as Jesus said.

  7. You shall not adulterate the Ten Commandments by making your own list of: 'something no one seems to agree to what the 10 actually are'

  8. You shall not steal religious mythologies from other cultures without complete attribution - "Yah, what the El?!"

  9. You shall not bear false interpretations of the Bible by saying that Jesus really meant things he didn't actually clearly say

  10. You shall not covet things unless they are in TV commercials, magazine ads, or your neighbor's backyard-outside-stone-fireplace-living-space, with pool and attached waterfall

 

Alan Hagedorn