Today, as the former priest and the presidential desperately-trying–to-remain hopeful, Mike Huckabee, was addressing late Jerry Farwell’s congregation in Virginia (perhaps one of the most narrow-minded and backward group of people on the planet), he pointed out an interesting issue about the relationship between law, morality and the good old ten commandments and reassured everybody that his stupidity has not been confined solely to denying evolution!
This phenomenal outcome of the American conservatism has clearly declared that all the moral laws we need can be found in Ten Commandments and the rest, is just complications we have created to pass around these eternally sufficient rules.
Since most of the people who repeat the word “commandments” have the faintest idea about what they actually are, let’s review these ancient divine rules that are supposed to keep our path illuminated till the end of time:
1. You shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
3. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
4. Honor your Father and Mother.
5. You shall not murder.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's house.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
Voila, these are the famous Ten Commandments.
Now note that based on this blatantly tribal and primitively archaic document, while we’re honoring our parents, not humping our neighbors' wives and not putting "Marduk" before "Jehovah", we are still allowed to do whatever we like to anybody who is not our neighbor! In fact, the horrendous massacring, raping and pillaging of non-Israelites, devotedly executed by the followers of Moses and enthusiastically described in the holy Bible itself (with a touch of sadism), attest to this reality.
Even if Christians intend to expand the meaning of the word “Neighbor” to the whole population of the planet (that I’m sure a good number of them are willing to do so), Ten Commandments still severely deficient of some fundamentals of human rights.
Let’s remember that a misogynist, bigot, slave owner, child abuser who destroys the environment and kills helpless animals for fun, is still firmly within the divinely marked path of Ten Commandments, as long as he is careful enough about the usage of the word God!
So dear Mr. Huckabee, if you really do put “remembering Sabbath” ahead of women and children’s protection laws, you’re not even fit to prepare the shopping list for a Picnic let alone becoming president of the
Though I do hope it’s just because that nobody takes you and your followers seriously these days...not anymore.
