Hey, this is Beymer and this is the second part of Article 10. In the first part I wrote about the first four commandments. In this article, I will write about the last 6 commandments.
Below are the last six of the Ten Commandments directly from Exodus 20 in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible:
Honour thy father and mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neigbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.
Consider the 5th commandment. You would think this would be obvious. It’s really odd that Moses felt compelled to chisel it in stone. What makes this one really odd is the warning attached: “that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” If you don’t honor your parents, then your days upon the land will not be long! Assuming that the older members of Moses’s flock were more obedient to his leadership, perhaps, this was another tool in his arsenal of control to keep the children or young adults in line with his agenda. Snake-Oil Flimflam Salesmen (SOFS), such as Moses, are quite shrewd in their attempts to control their flock. So, yes, you should honor your parents, especially if you have parents that have treated you well. Unless you’re retarded, I don’t think you need a SOFS to tell you this. The warning is just crazy SOFS crap.
Skip the sixth commandment for now. Consider the last four commandments. These are all about interaction with your family, friends, neighbors and strangers. After reading these four commandments, I can only conclude that stealing, lying, wife-swapping, and desiring your family’s, friend’s, neighbor’s or stranger’s possessions was ok before Moses went up the mountain. One day, God is just fine with all that, and then another day God changes his mind. So, these four commandments were there to let the Chosen Ones know that they couldn’t do those things anymore. I imagine this caused quite a stir among the followers. What do you mean? No more stealing? No more fooling around with the neighbor’s wife? I can’t lie anymore about the neighbor? No, no, no … this is totally absurd! God finally burns in stone His laws, and this is it? What a disappointment that must have been. These reeks of a SOFS ploy! No True God would commit to stone such obvious commandments to his Chosen Ones! These commandments or message rank about as low as the decoded message of “A Christmas Story”: “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”. Moses had some big round stones to believe he could pass such commandments off as being from God. He was smart to break them.
Now, consider the sixth commandment. Thou shall not kill. Here again, one can only conclude that murder was accepted prior to the burning of the tablets. What kind of people were these Chosen Ones? Murder, theft, adultery, lying and coveting were just fine for God’s Chosen Ones? That is, until God changed his mind? Again, this is so absurd! This sixth commandment, I think is the only really important one of all the ten commandments, but, again, it should be quite obvious to a Chosen People! I don’t think the Bible pays as much attention to this commandment as it should. Apparently, Jesus expanded upon this commandment, saying that hating someone was just as bad as murdering someone. What I find odd today is the relatively low value placed on human life by modern-day religions such as Judaism and its derivatives, Christianity and Islam. I guess this commandment just wasn’t taken as serious as first four.
Ok, let me summarize my final thoughts about the Ten Commandments. Well, I could sum it up with the phrase: “Surely, you’re joking, Mr. Moses!”. I can’t believe a people, especially a Chosen Peoples could be so ignorant or stupid as to not know about the last six commandments … these should be common knowledge. For a God to commit to stone such obvious behavior is just absurd. As I said in Part 1, the first four commandments were even more preposterous! No True God would ever commit to stone such a trivial or absurd set of rules to stone! The Ten Commandments were obviously a desperate attempt by the well-known Snake-Oil, Flimflam Salesman Moses to regain control of his unruly, out-of-control mob of followers through an elaborate scheme to scare his follows back unto his path.
This article is the last of my series on religion. I have many more topics in religion that I could write about: Separation of Church and State, Religious Wars (as if there were any other type of war), Abortion (return to subject of killing), Organized Religion (Rise of the SOFS), The Role of Gods in Religion, Political Parties (aka, Political Religions), and my favorite Music and Religion. But alas, I have become bored with this particular subject! There must be another subject, which like music and religion, I know absolutely nothing about! Let me think about it. I guess I could write about something I know, but how much fun could that possibly be? Hey! What if I made up some subject and wrote about it. Maybe I could write about the social impact upon mankind caused by the arrival on earth of the Gretaboluthos (pronounced Gre-tab-o-lu-thos). I don’t think anyone else has written on this subject. Perhaps I should first consult the Book of Abraham … I think the Gretaboluthos originate from Kolob.