THE CONSTITUTION and THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:13:16 +0000
> From: nrsinowitz () att net
> Subject: THE CONSTITUTION and THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
> To: dave () farber net
>
>
> "Of the Bible's Ten Commandments, only two (VI and VII) proscribe 
> activities that secular law regards as criminal.  It is not
> illegal in the United States to: have another God before Yahweh; 
> manufacture graven images (for instance, pieces of granite
> with Scriptural texts described on them); say "God damn it" when you spill 
> the ketchup; go to "Terminator 3" on Sunday;
> abuse (verbally) your parents; engage in extramarital sex; or (except 
> under oath) tell untrue stories about your neighbor.
> And if it were a crime to covet the ass parked in the driveway of the 
> people next door, it is hard to know how capitalism would
> survive.  Coveting asses is the whole basis of our economy."
>
>                                          --  Louis Menand,
>                                               "The New Yorker" Magazine,
>                                                Sept. 8, 2003

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