MelissaF1
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽I’ll bet most folks who act like him couldn’t either.
Mrs Beanbag@georgetakei which ten
Jupiter LIV@mrsbeanbag Naming all 613 would even be hard for a rabbi, I bet. @georgetakei
🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦@mrsbeanbag @georgetakei good one! There are several different countings, from 2 up till 12...
cmdrSprocket
Skeptic@georgetakei
The more serious problem is the people that manipulate these types of people for their own nefarious reasons.
The more serious problem is the people that manipulate these types of people for their own nefarious reasons.
Rachel Rawlings
The West Wing first speech of the President
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@georgetakei «Well, that is easy: The First Commandment, The Second Commandment,…»
«Darn it, should have asked for the descriptions.»
«Darn it, should have asked for the descriptions.»
ZZ Bottom
Princeoflonelymt@georgetakei try George Carlin's
Silviavont@georgetakei Or they would be unable to tell if whatever they hear is right.
Benedikt Neuzweig@georgetakei Easy. The second commandment is "Thou shall bear arms"
Curt Thomas@georgetakei because the plan is never to follow or be bound by rules themselves, it's only ever to bind other people.
McNulla@georgetakei
That’s the thing. Most people that claim religion as an excuse to not fulfill their responsibilities are also not fulfilling their religious responsibilities enough to claim religion as an excuse.
Seán Fenian@mcnulla @georgetakei If we're going to be honest about it, most of the Ten Commandments are simply subsets of "Don't be a dick."
Also if we're going to be honest. most people who claim religion as an excuse for anything only follow the parts of their chosen religion that they like. (And even that, often loosely.)
Also if we're going to be honest. most people who claim religion as an excuse for anything only follow the parts of their chosen religion that they like. (And even that, often loosely.)
No doubt. I’m Christian but I really ignore a good share of Leviticus (most Christians do, which is why I criticize using it to judge people that aren’t hurting anybody).
Wade Wainio@georgetakei One of them must include "thou shalt be a life-long-cheating bastard."
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@georgetakei @Crell "I'd like to exercise my rights under the fifth commandment"
Stormcat@georgetakei The Christian "God" commanded "thou shall not kill" in the Big Ten, then made hundreds of more rules specifying the type of people whom it was totally okay to kill. This same false piety is why so many Forced-birthers are determined to "protect the unborn" but will gleefully harm anyone who assists in any form of abortion.
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Maier Amsden@RodneyPetersonTalent @Stormcat @georgetakei Some of it is great sound philisophy. Some of it is documentary. Some of it is metaphorical stories.
Starraven@georgetakei
I'm an atheist. I remembered nine off the top of my head.
I'm an atheist. I remembered nine off the top of my head.
Rachel Greenham@starraven @georgetakei well yeah, the more of this bullshit you know the more you know it’s bullshit…
@StrangeNoises @starraven @georgetakei
Yup. Atheists and agnostics almost always know more about the Bible than Christians.
Aaron@RodneyPetersonTalent @StrangeNoises @starraven @georgetakei Sometimes we are atheists/agnostics *because* we actually read the bible. [waves]
@hosford42 @StrangeNoises @starraven @georgetakei
“Nothing will turn you into an atheist faster than reading the fucking Bible.” - Penn Jillette
GarethAlso, atheist here is my pre google try....
Not kill
Not bear false witness
Have no other gods before me
Keep Sabbath holy
Not covet neighbour's wife
Not take the name of the lord in vain
Bah that's it. The 6 Commandments.
I should have got the prohibitions against stealing and adultery and honouring Mom and Dad. I've been good at all three of these despite not being able to remember them.
The one I missed was "Not take the Lord's name in Vain."
@gareth @starraven @georgetakei I got 8 - missed honor your parents and don't take the Lord's name in vain.
arceuthobium@starraven @georgetakei that’s because there are only nine, and Catholics, Protestants, and Jews disagree on which one to split apart to make an even ten. Iirc Lutherans split “thou shalt not covet” into two commandments, others made “I am the Lord thy God” a separate commandment from “thou shalt not have any other God before me.”
RevPudDudley@georgetakei There are inconsistent versions of it -- offering infinite punishment for ambiguous offenses ! Well there wasn't all this gab about Hell in the Old Testament anyway
Eagle Globe & Flanker@georgetakei "God sent trump, Jesus is white, I look towards the Bible for guidance....."🤦♂️
@BikeyBike @georgetakei Some of them actually think Trump is the 2nd coming of Christ. That one blows my mind.
@hosford42 @BikeyBike @georgetakei I always like to ask which of the "spiritial fruits" Trump bears. It's a solid laugh.
Doesn't Matter@georgetakei there's something about an ox in there
Alyssa Voronin@georgetakei I mean, the first commandment is, "You don't talk about the ten commandments," and the second commandment is, "You DON'T talk about the ten commandments!" And then I think one of the later ones is, "Snitches get stitches."
That's why people can't recite them!
ArchaeoIain@georgetakei the most important is "Thou shalt not kill more than 50,000 people"
Ryan2one3@georgetakei Thou shall not murder thy neighbour in court.
Alex Lubertozzi 🇺🇦@georgetakei Lifelong atheist here, and I’m betting I can name most of them from memory:
Thou shalt have no god before me
Thou shalt honor thy father and mother
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife
Thou shalt not commit murder
Thou shalt keep the sabbath holy
Thou shalt not bear false witness
So nine, not bad. Or per George Carlin: Don’t fuck with other people or their shit.
PixiePancake@georgetakei I’m an atheist and I can name them.
Tim Gatewood@georgetakei It's as if their religion is about respecting symbols and stories without any need to understand either in context. I mean, Christianity is a huge retcon on Judaism of the Temple era, so perhaps it's too much to expect those who claim to take the Bible literally to read it?
@georgetakei I got 8 - missed honoring my parents and not taking the Lord's name in vain.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@georgetakei We did a quick test around the dinner table today. Three practicing Christians and atheist me. Only one of us managed all 10 commandments — and that person struggled for a few minutes before remembering the tenth.
Two of the diners are trained missionaries..
Two of the diners are trained missionaries..
Evelyn C. Leeper@georgetakei Not sure I believe this. For one thing, a lawyer doesn't ask a question like that unless they're sure they know what the answer will be.
nantucketlit
Totts@georgetakei Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's washing machine xx