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I was just watching a debate about whether the Bible is still relevant today. I got really frustrated when a bishop (who got enraged) said "WHERE WOULD WE BE AS A CIVILISATION WITHOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS"

I think people should revise the ten commandments and ask themselves whether they are actually worth anything

If you don't know what I mean by that, then let me do quick round up of the commandments:

1. "You shall not have other Gods before me"
this isn't a moral statement or commandment, it's a religious/brainwashing one.

2. "You shall not make idols"
this is somewhat contradictory to the first one - but if we assume it isn't, then this is basically the exact same thing as the first commandment.

3. "You shall not take the name of the lord, your god, in vain"
well, why not? Either way, this basically means that if you do believe in God, you shouldn't say "Christ! This hurts!" when you've got a broken leg.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

4. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy"
this is basically a reminder to take a day off on Saturday

5. "Honor your father and your mother"
finally a good one! Though why should you honor your parents and not all of the humankind?

6. "You shall not kill"
this one is great. Sadly, it's not very original, and actually had been said a million times before.

7. "You shall not commit adultery"
I guess this one is fine. Though when you think of it for a while, it doesn't make sense. If it was "You shall not rape", then it would be fine. But adultery is a sexual intercourse between two people who want to have sex with each other, and yeah, sure, the partner who had been cheated on will be heart-broken, but all in all it's not really a crime against humanity. This one should be formulated with more grey area statements.

8. "You shall not steal"
again, same as n6: it's great, sadly it's not very original.

9. "You shall not bear alse witness against your neighbour"
I guess this means "don't lie". So all is fine, nothing wrong with that, sadly it's not very original and had been said a million times before.

10. "You shall not covet"
um...so...this one...is dumb. Look, I get that this is pretty much supposed to be a buddhist thing, as in "you shouldn't want material things in life, because it eon't bring you happiness" or something. But really, that's not what it says. It just says "you shouldn't want"


All in all, the ten commandments are useful only for the religious people who wish to praise their God properly, but as a moral compass it doesn't give you anything new (the important parts have been in circulation way before the Bible).
We would be in the exact same place as humankind/civilisation without the Ten Commandments.

I think that when people think of the commandments, they don't actually remember what do they say, but remember only the important ones ("don't kill", "don't steal", "don't lie") and think that the rest of the commandments are of the same caliber.

They're not.
People should really stop bringing these ten idiotic rules up, when there's a discussion about morality.

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