No,no,no,no,no.
The only thing that will accomplish would be to make our society more like a group of supersticious primitive nomads. (who, historically, probably didn't follow these anyway.) 1. You shall not worship any other god but YAHWAH. Since he doesn't exist anyway, this is fundamentally a waste of time and energy for anyone in society. All the money that has ever been wasted on religion could have, and should have been devoted to solving real and tangible problems here and now.
2. You shall not make a graven image and worship or serve it. (idols) See number 1. They are both the same waste.
3. You shall not take the name Lord God in vain. (JESUS, YAHWAH) This definitely has to go, since opposition to religious tyranny must be allowed, encouraged, and strengthened. Dismissing criticism as blasphemy or apostasy is a nice way to avoid struggling out reality.
4. You shall not break the Sabbath. (You should keep it holy) More control and wasted time.
5. You shall not dishonor your parents. Paternal rights and family structure have value. Honoring somoen who does not deserve natural honor for their contribution to society detaches communities from reality and must go.Traditional rules bring traditional results and more of the same old oppression.
6. You shall not murder. (kill) We've never needed religion to tell us that. If religious dominionism would stop causing most of the international conflicts I might even be prone to take this as anything other than a glaring hypocrisy.
7. You shall not commit adultery Ownership of persons and commitment to keeping one's word are entirely different things.
8. You shall not steal. While one can not have everyone running around and taking things, this command does serve to enforce class systems where it is extended beyond the litteral act of theft. Keep in mind property included human beings as slaves and concubines. Sickening.
9. You shall not commit perjury. (lie or bear false witness) Agree. And I invite religious people to stop telling lies like evolution is false, invisible spirit forces are at work in the world, or that any god intends for anyone to do anything to anybody else.
10. You shall not covet. A tidy way of enforcing class oppression. The motivation to work and achieve must not be collapsed with a justification of haves and have nots. Coveting included wives as property. Property. Property. Humans are not things. If you uphold this commandment, then you must uphold that slavery and the ownership of women was right and good. I can condense the ten commandments for you nicely: 1. Do whatever god says. 2. Religious leaders get to tell you what god says. 3. The ruling class and their religious allies deserve their priviledged position and you can not and should not do anything about it, especially rioting in the streets, tearing down systems of oppression, and building a new world without oppressive lies. Thus sayeth the ruling cla...err I mean the lord.
