Do We Need To Revise The Ten Commandments?

Are the Ten Commandments applicable to today's society? Do they serve a useful purpose or are they mysoginistic, negative and hopelessly outdated?

If you could add a new commandment, what would it be and why?

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Just knock off the first four and make it the 6 commandments.

Far too many laws as it is. I suppose the last commandment would have to be rewritten to be non gender specific, change the word wife to spouse, that'll do it.

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Never bother about them - all man made laws!

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Have you been watching "The Big Question"

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All our laws are man made.

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Never ? I have visions of you going round murdering and coveting etc

Actually they do still give some good rules for life imo.

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I know that

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...s_6_Episode_7/

I don't watch The Big Questions very often and I didn't watch this episode (and still haven't) but I thought I would put up the episodes which I think relate to Ben Varrey's post. It will take a bit of time to view, but I thought it might help the discussion.

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Yes and now Aerolor has revealed that I didn't have an original thought

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Sorry - I ediited my post and couldn't resist adding a bit more in - and it ended up as a double post

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...s_6_Episode_7/

I don't watch The Big Questions very often and I didn't watch this episode (and still haven't) but I thought I would put up the episodes which I think relate to Ben Varrey's post. It will take a bit of time to view, but I thought it might help the discussion.

If there were to be another commandment added, I think it would conflict with some of the existing ones, but I would definitely include something about taking care of the environment we live in, valuing and reverring what we have.

Hold on a minute !!! - the commandments were given to us by God, weren't they as his word ? Couldn't re-writing them for ourselves too be seen sacriligous - a sin and an offence against God.

However, the established church and its powerful heirarchy would write the rules and so for me it would not make much difference. I have my own set of "commandments" as to how I should live my life.