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April 03, 2007
The Rape Omission
The Ten Commandments
1. And God spake all these words, saying,
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Missing: Rape, child abuse, assault, scat, this
Posted by durban bud at April 3, 2007 09:09 AM
Comments
wouldn't that be covered under adultery, or coventing your neighbors ass?
Posted by: Tim at April 3, 2007 11:23 AM
Good rules to live by....even with the omissions that you point out.
Is the biblical reference in honor of Holy Week or have you been feeling guilty for coveting your neighbor's ass?
Posted by: Chris at April 3, 2007 11:24 AM
There aren't 10 commandments, there are 400 some. Those are just the first 10. Don't let your kids with ADD be religious scholars, let them be hunters.
Posted by: Carl at April 3, 2007 11:37 AM
Judaism is so needlessly complicated. I (like you, I believe) was raised Southern Baptist, and there was only one rule: if you're having a good time, you must be sinning.
Back in the day, I spent a lot of time worrying that I was sinning too much. Nowadays, if I think of it at all, I only worry that I'm sinning too little. After all, if Jesus died for my sins, the more of them there are, the more valuable the sacrifice, right?
Posted by: Teddy at April 3, 2007 12:10 PM
Ooooo- that movie definitely falls in the 'thou shalt NOT' category.
Posted by: cb at April 3, 2007 12:30 PM
Ah, but the 42 Declarations of Purity of the God Ma'at (Egyptian) which preceeded the 10 commandments does indeed mention rape. I guess Moses and those Jewish boys simplified the commandments a bit ...
Posted by: raybob at April 4, 2007 01:04 AM