Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoLouisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandmentsboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoTLDR version: not actually 11 commandments, just an extra line break in the shall-not-covet commandment.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 months ago Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. Those look like two different commandments to me.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoThere’s another line break at the top… “I am the Lord, thy God, thou shalt have no other Gods before me.” But that’s also matter of debate… but then so is the whole list… and the order… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments The one everyone forgets: “You shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Aargaareezem. (Tsedaka)” But hey, it’s not like they were carved in stone by God or something… Oh, wait…
TLDR version: not actually 11 commandments, just an extra line break in the shall-not-covet commandment.
Those look like two different commandments to me.
There’s another line break at the top…
“I am the Lord, thy God, thou shalt have no other Gods before me.”
But that’s also matter of debate… but then so is the whole list… and the order…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
The one everyone forgets:
“You shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Aargaareezem. (Tsedaka)”
But hey, it’s not like they were carved in stone by God or something… Oh, wait…