... on this subject - well, from me anyway.
The blogs have been abuzz with posts and comments on The Ten Commandments.
Two thirds of bloggers think that it's a load of old cobblers and one third believe that they are the most important rules given by God. This gift apparently is so sacred and self evident that the believers in it don't feel the need to justify or explain The Ten Commandments.
Here's what Robert said:"Reading posts by two commenters, it is interesting how and why they both take umbrage at the 10 Commandments I have on my side bar. There is unanimous agreement, by them, that they could do better. Yet when they try, their attempts fizzle after three ideas. A surprising commonality is that God does exist but could have done better! Here again they try to suggest how but fizzle once again after "no slavery" and " be nice." They quote one person saying God should tell us to be loving! Obviously they haven't read the Bible. One that made me chuckle was "no one should be forced to be religious"; and bad intentions are not sinful!
They skip over many important subtle aspects. Murder is wrong they agree, as it is especially wrong to abuse children ; yet I know them to be pro-choice (for abortion). One shouldn't commit adultery, they agree, but fornification is agreed by theologians to be in that basket and not mentioned by them either because they are obviously not against sex outside marriage!
If I bought a brand new expensive motor car and one of them said "throw away the manual, I've written a better one, but I only had three ideas to put in it"; I know what I would say.
I don't feel the need to justify or explain the Ten Commandments. Others more learned than I have done this, and these are freely available through the internet and on YouTube."
Well Robert, I know that in your usual christian arrogance you don't feel the need for justification or explanation but surely you must see the ridiculousness of this 'gift from God'.
Purporting to be, and celebrated as, the most important guiding and "beneficial laws given by God on Mount Sinai that show us how to live a better life now and please God forever." - from Life, Hope and Truth, The 10 Commandments are taken by Robert and his cronies to be alpha and omega with no need for questioning.
How is it then, I ask, not really expecting a sensible reply, that of the ten things there really are only six instructions?
- Believe in and honour God
- Respect your parents
- Don't murder.
- Don't steal
- Don't lie
- Don't be adulterous.
- Three mentions of honouring God
- Two mentions of stealing.
- Two mentions of .committing' adultery.
6 comments:
“Geremy said...
The slippage of values, or a society's judgement of what is important, will always be a moving target unless it is anchored to laws. God had to give the Hebrews the ten Commandments in the end!”
That was an old comment from Robert’s alter ego Geremy. It sounds funny as if god rammed the commandments up the Hebrews’ arses like an enema!
Well, I thought it was funny.
TC
If you had showed me that video earlier, I could have saved time not writing two posts.
Still, it was fun writing them.
Geremy? Where did that come from?
Geremy was a name that Robert used as blog ID a few years ago. I'd taken a screenshot of his comment on a previous post and included in a post that I wrote. Here's the link: https://grumpyoldmanreturnsnz.blogspot.com/2017/03/born-again.html
Geremy was quite profound. Time has proved him right.
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