I appreciate the sentiment, but find the 'ten commandments' to be terribly counterproductive on a PR scale. As an atheist I feel that having this comparison between secular/humanistic "golden rules" and OT commandments insulting, but hey that's just my opinion.
On a personal note I find the "thou shalts, and thy's" to be a nice flashy, archaic touch but largely unnecessary and counter-intuitive for it forms yet another parallel between the biblical commandments which can be misconstrued by the religious masses as a shot at their beliefs. When in fact they seem to be a half-formed attempt to bridge the void between theistic beliefs and secular morality. Ditch the dogmatic aspects and I think we'd be well on our way to widely accepted secular "golden rules".
I may be well off the mark on some of this but this was my initial thought process when I read over the AHA webpage.
On a personal note I find the "thou shalts, and thy's" to be a nice flashy, archaic touch but largely unnecessary and counter-intuitive for it forms yet another parallel between the biblical commandments which can be misconstrued by the religious masses as a shot at their beliefs. When in fact they seem to be a half-formed attempt to bridge the void between theistic beliefs and secular morality. Ditch the dogmatic aspects and I think we'd be well on our way to widely accepted secular "golden rules".
I may be well off the mark on some of this but this was my initial thought process when I read over the AHA webpage.
