The Ten [Suggestions]

Here's another religious "oops." A Baptist preacher in South Carolina told his congregation that the Ten Commandments were just "sayings" or "promises." When all hell broke loose at this faith faux pas, he did what any "good Christian" would do: blame the Jews; in this case, one who, allegedly, told him that there was no Hebrew word for "commandment", so there could be no such thing as the Ten Commandments.

Due to the very strong reaction to his message, he went back to check, and now admits that he misinterpreted what he was told, not an uncommon experience for those who presume to know what God has said and done.

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  1. Roberto Ariel FernándezJanuary 23, 2015 at 6:57 AM

    As I will develop soon in my Blog, the god of the monotheistic religions exhibits clear narcissistic traits. For instance he, or it, is cosmically insecure and jealous, thus demanding constant, exclusive attention and praise. Which should be odd to modern city dwellers, because we currently know that the Universe is so vast that it has hundreds of billions of galaxies, each in turn comprised of hundreds of billions of stars. My point is that, if you are the creator and sole owner of that huge realm, you should not be insecure at all.

    The first three commandments show that insecurity typical of narcissism, which we also find in so many other passages of the "holy books" of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is a failure of the human imagination to create a god not merely in our image, but in the image of the complete narcissists among us. Talk about a disastrous mirroring!

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