The Missing Commandment
February 28, 2016 at 8:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2016 at 8:55 am by FebruaryOfReason.)
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?
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?
I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty.
