Quote Originally Posted by JunkYard
I thought we were talking about the ten commandments? The Graven image wasn't about art, it was about creating a God in which you bow down to and worship.
I already addressed this point in the original post. You have to read the commandment carefully. It says "Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth." That sentence is a prohibition on representative art of all kinds, and it cannot possibly be interpreted otherwise. Only after that is the separate commandment "Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals."
Also, the practices of ancient people were twisted as you well know. Hell, we here in America practiced Slavery ourselves, but I don't think God was pleased by it. It was simply another thing people used God as for an exuse, imo.
Err, so why didn't God do anything about it. If I was against slavery and had the power to stop it or at least tell people it's a bad idea, I would do that. I mean, if God can tell us what's moral and what's not, then surely he can be bothered to throw in a couple words about an immoral tradition that has ruined millions of lives throughout history. Slavery has caused far, far more misery than adultery or stealing ever have, and to think God could have thrown in "thou shalt not take slaves" and spared so much of it.
The Ten cammandments themseves make for a decent moral code, if you don't like/agree with them, don't follow them...pretty simple.
Well, it's not quite that simple. People are trying to shove them in my face on public property such as schools and courtrooms, and the stupid Sabbath commandment started a tradition that causes the local convenience store to close early every seventh day, which is kind of annoying (you're not supposed to work on the Sabbath, so we work a little less on the Sabbath...what's up with that?)

If you are married, I'd hope you wouldn't condone her/him fucking someone else.
It's more common than you think.
[Adultery] or think about fucking someone else, lol! If you [both of you] have an open relashionship and like swinging; I might put that under the fornication catagory as no one gets hurt. Same for coveting your neighbors wife; it's about respect and having Love for others, man.
Well, if no one's getting hurt, then why is it immoral? Why did God find condemnation of adultery to be more important than condemnation of rape or slavery. This is clearly not the best possible moral code, so it can't possibly have been written by a perfect intelligence, and thus cannot have been written by God. The Ten Commandments were written by man. No loving God would have called wives and slaves property, or demanded that everybody stop working so they can worship his jealous, self-centered ego.

You gotta admit that the section of the ten dealing with people aren't bad. Unless you lean towards anarchy, or a non-civilized world, or simply enjoy hurting others or being hurt by others.


Love,
I am an anarchist. But I see you subscribe to the common sheeple view that anarchy is chaos and disorder with everybody freely murdering and raping people, instead of a detailed political philosophy dealing with the replacement of hierarchical power structures with horizontal democratic ones. And if you want to believe that, go ahead.

I do say that the section dealing with people is bad. A five-year-old could come up with a better list. Come on, everybody knows stealing and killing are wrong. That's no huge revolution in moral thought. And adultery, people seem to be pretty unanimously against that when it involves deception, which is the other commandment. And yeah, people don't like deception either, that's a no-brainer. Who likes getting deceived?

But that last one, the one that says don't desire other people's things, that's just loony. That one is a horrible commandment that makes no sense, since desire is an involuntary emotion that is in no way immoral.

Couldn't God have actually told us something about ethics and morality that we didn't know? Couldn't he have actually come up with any original ideas for the time, like feminism or democracy or religious tolerance or the abolition of slavery or something like that? That could have totally revolutionized their ethics!
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