Friday, March 03, 2006

The Ten Commandments

I sat in a church yesterday listening to people complain about traffic but looking at the ten commandments on the wall behind the altar. They were written in king james english, but here's my translation:

1. prioritize god because he's immortal. don't let anything else, like anything temporary, consume your life.
2. perpetuate the idea of god and knowledge of god without using lots of pictures
3. when you talk about god, mean what you say. don't be flippant.
4. stop working one day per week
5. respect history and hang onto land
6. don't kill
7. don't betray the trust of your lover
8. don't steal
9. don't say someone did something when he didn't
10. don't want things that belong to other people; don't try to "keep up with the joneses"

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