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In this streaming video, Christopher Hitchens deconstructs the ten commandments and then rewrites them so they actually are an ethical code and so they mean something for everyday life.
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While Hitch adds some interesting insights to this topic, George Carlin still has the measure of the ten commandments best. See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEs2nj7iZM
i love the commandment that says "turn off the fraking cell phone!"
Hitch is good. Very good. Go read Hitch-22,a nd God Is Not great if you have not.
Hitchens version had a bug in it... 3rd one could be understood being against BDSM relationships.
Nice try, Hitch! Hitchens' approach is very specific, flavored by current events and his position as a Europeanish person. I'm ok with that, especially #8. My 'practical 10 commandments' [link] is fairly general, includes some guidance ('Corollaries'), and allows a form of religiosity to have a suitable priority. I wonder what Hitch would think of it?
I think that there's a lot to be said for Bill and Ted's two commandmanets:
Be excellent to each other.
Party on, dude.