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The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 8:54 am
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OK, so the particular mistranslated, messed-up, mutated-from-a-million-inefficient-copyings of the Ten Commandments I have here is;
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1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. Thou shalt not make make unto thee any graven image
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
5. Honour thy father and thy mother
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
10. Thou shalt not covet
Of these, 1, 3 and possibly 2 and 4 are concerned with Sky Daddy's vanity, his demands that we always consider him the boss, and his expectation that we respect his bullshit rituals above all else. The rest seem pretty sensible.
So what's missing here?
It's not as if God has to stop at 10 commandments. In other parts of the Bible, he bangs on for hours with meaningless lists of fruits and who begat whom.
So why isn't there any space here for a prohibition against rape?
Why does God consider it more important to prohibit the theft of a couple of pennies than to condemn the most humiliating, violating offence that one human being can commit against another short of murder?
Why is it worse for Person A with no food in their belly to envy Person B with a huge banquet in front of them, than it is for Person B to rape person A?
Why is it worse for Person A to tell the smallest lie about Person B, than it is for them to rape that person?
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 9:03 am
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Worst part is, that's not even the Ten Commandments. Christians pretend it is because it has maybe 3 relevant ones out of the 10. The actual 10 commandments don't even features those. After those 10 above though, he adds another 200 or something, and still no mention of slavery or rape.
But I agree, not having slavery or rape up there shows either God is fine with those things, or else it's just a reflection of the morality at the time.
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 9:35 am
It was more important to make sure we know to take a day off from work than to tell us we should treat everyone equally. So important that he has a guy killed for picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week.
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 11:04 am
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(February 28, 2016 at 9:35 am)Chad32 Wrote: It was more important to make sure we know to take a day off from work than to tell us we should treat everyone equally. So important that he has a guy killed for picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week.
I'm reminded of the people Stalin had murdered for picking up grains of corn from the street to eat, because they were starving following his disastrous collectivisation of the farms.
He said they had stolen the property of the people and were capitalist reactionary saboteurs.
I suppose it's what happens when people become less concerned with human suffering, and more concerned with ensuring that their authority is obeyed above all else.
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 11:08 am
Yeah, any time one person claims all the power, things generally get very bad. Yet people want to worship this god character.
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 11:09 am
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 1:08 pm
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Technically, rape would be lumped in with adultery and theft. There is a commandment, it's just not explicit to our eyes or ears, as we've long since stopped considering rape as a package of either of those two things.
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 3:22 pm
And raping someone at the temple might offend God too in regards to the first 4.
(I mention that one since it too is a frequently forgotten corollary)
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 3:31 pm
proto-Bedouins didn't think rape was a problem. Just a woman, after all.
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RE: The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 3:54 pm
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They took issue. Like you'd take issue if somebody came and raped your dog, or put his penis on your couch. It was destruction of property and loss of value if nothing else. I personally doubt that any father has ever been indifferent to the rape of his daughter in any case.
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