What do you guys think of the Ten Commandments (Ten Words)?

[Zevuxknight101]

What do you guys think of the Ten Commandments, or as my church refers to them as, The Ten Words? I'm just wondering, since a lot of Christians place heavy emphasis on them, but I don't, since Jesus himself couldn't even remember them all, nor do I think they are all good commandments. But what do you guys think?

[DuMbAsS]

Like, He who smelt it dealt it. LOL had to do a robot chicken reference. Yeah I'm atheist, so I could careless. I mean those ten commandments are every day things your suppose to do anyways. Especially since everyone encourages good behavior or something. Plus, it's human to make mistakes. I mean come on, don't go on and kill yourself over a mistake. It's not like there's truly a great sentient being out there watching is there. Then again that's the atheist in me talking, you go with your religion I go with whatever you call mine (belief I think).

[Vermilion Thanatos]

I was raised Catholic and am now proudly atheist. And not in the bandwagon sense; every conclusion I've reaching came from my own reasoning, not from movies or literature. This doesn't mean that I have no understanding of religion, however; it means I know it and have analyzed it enough to disagree with it.

For one, regardless of whether Jesus existed or not, the character of Jesus would definitely have known what the Ten Commandments were. He was raised Jewish, so he would have learned them, and only in knowing just as much about the Jewish religion as the Pharisees would he have been able to hold is own against them or be considered to have beaten them in religious debate. He himself only named like one or two because that was supposed to be the essential heart of all ten and made life much simpler (the golden rule is something that I still retain in my methodology simply because it extends beyond Christianity, is present in all religions, and can be rationally explained even without the use of religious mythology). So that claim against Jesus is ignorant.

So I agree with Dumbass (not in a derogatory way, but it cannot be helped given your name) that there is in all likelihood no such thing as a god. If in the remote chance that there is a force that organizes all of reality, it would be egocentric and ignorant for us to assume that it is sentient as we are when we have no evidence to do so. But that is just me again.

In short, from my experience, religion, and by association the ten commandments, are unnecessary to live a good life. For starters, just use the Golden Rule, and work your way from there.

[Vermilion Thanatos]

Quartering soldiers is in the Bill of Rights, the First Ten Ammendments to the Constitution.

We're talking about the 10 Commandments as laid down by the Abrahamic monotheistic faiths, i.e., Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and arguably Mormonism (it has become so radically different from Christianity, I think it can be considered separate).

Come to think of it, the Bill of Rights wouldn't be necessary, either, if people would just rationally figure out their own moral codes and discuss their problems...but I still say that the 10 Commandments is pointless. They are only ten rules in a book of close to two hundred that not only condones slavery, but also dictates capital punishment for such petty things as chidren disobeying you and wives cheating on you. Religion is obsolete. and people need to get over that before we blow each other to hell over whose god is right.

[EdgarAnTerraFigaro]

I fully believe in God and Jesus Christ, I pray every day and night and I...never mind...

[Chaotic Lionheart]

Shhh don't tell nobody but I forgot what the ten commandments were -_-

[Vermilion Thanatos]

Bwahaha!

Ten Commandments

[Chaotic Lionheart]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Thanatos

Bwahaha!

Ten Commandments

Wow that's funny but i looked up the big ten and i realized i broke a couple of them especially the stealing one

[EdgarAnTerraFigaro]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Thanatos

Bwahaha!

Ten Commandments

NO!
Here ^^

Originally Posted by Chaotic Lionheart

Wow that's funny but i looked up the big ten and i realized i broke a couple of them especially the stealing one

What? How many?
I broke stealing, but that was when I was five or four >.< But I asked for forgiveness ^^

[Chaotic Lionheart]

What? How many?
I broke stealing, but that was when I was five or four >.< But I asked for forgiveness ^^[/quote]

Uh...two,three,four,first half of five,eight and i think ten

[EdgarAnTerraFigaro]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Lionheart

What? How many?
I broke stealing, but that was when I was five or four >.< But I asked for forgiveness ^^

Uh...two,three,four,first half of five,eight and i think ten[/quote]

Wait, you covet your neighbor's wife? Why?
Not me, that's for sure. The men here are sick in the head and perverts. Also, they are killers O.o Which is why Dante keeps a gun......

[Vermilion Thanatos]

People are bound to break the ten commandments because the ten commandments aren't the best guide for morality. They are too specific, and some don't even cover important stuff. At least what Jesus is claimed to have said makes a little more sense from a moral point of view, even though it is epistemologically flawed in origin: "Love thy neighbor as yourself." Sounds like the Universal Golden Rule to me (though why they felt the need to add God to it is still beyond me).

But, taking the Ten Commandments to be true just for conversational purposes, I definitely broke number 5, because one time I was in Bath, England and I saw this keychain that looked cool and I was going to buy it but inadvertently put it in my pocket when looking at other stuff. I still bought other stuff, but didn't discover the keychain until I was a few towns away. At least I offered some patronage...
Let's see, obviously I fail 1-3 because I think they are pointless, and I guess you could say everyone fails 5, 8, 9, and 10 occasionally because, let's face it, most people have no idea how to be moral, even by Christian standards.

So the moral is; don't kill people and don't cheat on your lover, and as long as you're not a total jerk you're already better than half the people in the world.

[EdgarAnTerraFigaro]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Thanatos

People are bound to break the ten commandments because the ten commandments aren't the best guide for morality. They are too specific, and some don't even cover important stuff. At least what Jesus is claimed to have said makes a little more sense from a moral point of view, even though it is epistemologically flawed in origin: "Love thy neighbor as yourself." Sounds like the Universal Golden Rule to me (though why they felt the need to add God to it is still beyond me).

But, taking the Ten Commandments to be true just for conversational purposes, I definitely broke number 5, because one time I was in Bath, England and I saw this keychain that looked cool and I was going to buy it but inadvertently put it in my pocket when looking at other stuff. I still bought other stuff, but didn't discover the keychain until I was a few towns away. At least I offered some patronage...
Let's see, obviously I fail 1-3 because I think they are pointless, and I guess you could say everyone fails 5, 8, 9, and 10 occasionally because, let's face it, most people have no idea how to be moral, even by Christian standards.

So the moral is; don't kill people and don't cheat on your lover, and as long as you're not a total jerk you're already better than half the people in the world.

I'm a Christian and I never broke the other rules, unless you count me stealing a little bag of candy that was 60 cents when I was five/four.
I've never cheated, never wanted to, never killed, I've never broke
any of the TCs....

[Vermilion Thanatos]

Surely you've disrespected your parents at least once (every child does it), and I'm sure you've lied at least once (bear false witness against neighbor). No one's perfect.

[Lye]

God's army is very important to fighting the sins of the devil. It seems like many people today have forgotten this. My personal favorite is "You broke it, you bought it." Kids these days don't respect that one either.

[Vermilion Thanatos]

Then I am part of the IPU's army, battling against the disguises of the Purple Oyster such as God and oatmeal cookies...

[Pokeman Extreme]

you guys are cra-z

[Chaotic Lionheart]

Originally Posted by EdgarAnTerraFigaro

Uh...two,three,four,first half of five,eight and i think ten

Wait, you covet your neighbor's wife? Why?
Not me, that's for sure. The men here are sick in the head and perverts. Also, they are killers O.o Which is why Dante keeps a gun......[/quote]

No I didn't covet my neighbor's wife not that one lol

[EdgarAnTerraFigaro]

Originally Posted by Chaotic Lionheart

Wait, you covet your neighbor's wife? Why?
Not me, that's for sure. The men here are sick in the head and perverts. Also, they are killers O.o Which is why Dante keeps a gun......

No I didn't covet my neighbor's wife not that one lol[/quote]

Oh, thank the lord!
Because that would be a sad thing to do

[Chaotic Lionheart]

Originally Posted by EdgarAnTerraFigaro

No I didn't covet my neighbor's wife not that one lol

Oh, thank the lord!
Because that would be a sad thing to do

[/quote]

yeh I don't even know what "covet my negihbor's wife" means so -shrugs-