HEY! Wake the futch up because I dunno what time it is where you live but around here it's time to get sacreligious in here, you sexy pleasure pistons!

*Cackles* SO, our nation of the United States has been around a few years now. We've been together through a mess or two, haven't we? Massive earthquakes, hurricanes, floods which almost destroyed entire cities, HOW many major wars with other nations? ....*sets her chin* some of which we didn't start, even from an objective point of view*smirks*... I'm not just referring to natural disasters or assaults upon our way of life from outside sources ether. We fight among ourselves almost as much IF not more than we do with other nations, don't we? *shrugs* We, as a country, seem to be incapable of just leaving each other the hell alone and getting down to enjoying those freedoms which our lineage fought and died for...

If you follow the news at all in this country you'll know that one of these things we seem to be completely unable to settle upon is our own country's basic history *eyebrow arcs* reality, if you will, and comprehension of said, is at a premium among many of our fine citizens. *removes her glasses, rubbing the bridge of her nose* If that sounds a little snarky and unnecessarily snide, I apologize to you, lovely watcher but it's called for at this point, I feel. The reason I say so is due to the simple fact that so... goddess... damned... many... things... people are STILL banging on about in our country are things which we settled years, decades or even over a century ago, often with the exact same data or even less of it.

Such as the old favourite.... *groans softly* "The Ten (christian)Commandments Are The Basis Of Our Constitution/Laws".....

*smiles* ....really?.... Are they now?

Well, then... As I used to be a minister*raises her hands in pantomime* '''in the before times...". let's get into that little bit of horrible misinformation, shall we, lovely watcher? Let's frame-by-frame that lie and break this tired, old absolute un-truth down by it's components. As many seem to feel they actually super-cede the constitution in terms of importance, we'll approach this from the side of the ten (christian)commandments. I should also add *smirks* I'm going to be going by what they actually say in the fucking bible, not what somewhat cute and kid-friendly lie your pastor, parents or other arbitrary authority figure taught you they MEANT... I've got my own delusions to deal with, you can go get your own. We don't need somebody else's cluttering up the conversation as well, lovely watcher...

So, from the top-- (Please, bear with me, as this is going to get wordy and pretentious. It is 'god' after all...)

1"I am the Lord Thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt the house of bondage, thou shalt have no strange gods before me" ...Well, there's a violation of The Establishment Clause and The First Amendment, our fundamental freedom to worship as we see fit. So, the first commandment is thoroughly un-American and out right off the bat. NOT a law, never has been, never should be.

2"That shalt not maketh unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow thyself to them, nor serve them, for I am the LORD thy God and I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me" ...We can't make "idols to praise or worship? Again, That's NOT a law in ANY part of this country. From The Baphomet to Jon Bon Jovi, EVERY American offers praise to some manner of "idol". We have idols, arguably, on everything from the posters on our walls to the freaking one-dollar bill. *jerks her thumb over her shoulder* RIGHT outta here.

Can we also make a note that the "perfect, all-loving, all-forgiving" god of Abraham just said that if you "hate" him, he will punish you, your kids, your grandkids, your great-grandkidsand your great-great-grandkids...? Just a side observation...

3"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain" Again, NOT a law and a blatant violation of that 'Freedom of Speech' thing we all enjoy so much. *whistles* OUTTA here.... Goddammit...

4"Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates..." Outside of the question of which "sabbath day are we referring to, this is again NOT a law, never has been, defies our free enterprise system of economics and is medieval, superstitious nonsense. If my cat wants to bury a turd on Sunday I'm not stopping her, eat me. NEXT-

5"Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." In a nation with hundreds of thousands of children up for adoption, children born of rape, incest, artificial insemination, children of unknown parents, broken families, divorced families, re-married two, three or four-times over families, this is not only NOT a law, it's also impossible. WHSSHT! Get that outta here too...

May I also add, just for myself, that on that point of "that thy days may be long" I'm a Satanist and a hedonist. My biological family wants nothing to do with me, in a very legal sense. My name is mine alone. All that said, I've now out-lived the expectations of my physicians by five years. *thumbs up* WOOTS!

6"Thou shalt not kill..." I'm going with this abbreviated version of the commandment as although a much longer and more vulgar statement appears in Hebrew texts, this is the one most often seen in American bible translations. Also, although I would say that I give this one up as a point in the (christian)bible's favour, it was a law in dozens of societies and cultures which pre-date any iteration of the text by thousands of years. So again, this IS a law but not one based on the ten(christian)commandments.

7"Thou shalt not commit adultery." *stares, blank-faced* Nope. NOT a law. Never has been and I doubt it ever will be.

8"Thou shalt not steal." Again, although this IS a law, more or less, and I might be tempted to make a second tally-mark on the(christian)bible's side, I'm sorry but this was also a law in cultures which pre-dated ANY version of the Hebrew faith by millennia. "Don't touch my stuff" is a fairly basic sentiment which Thogg and Grukk probably established as a rule back when we lived in caves and feared the moon was going to come out of the sky and eat us.

9"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" As much as I would sometimes like lying to be illegal, it isn't. This can only be considered a law as it applies to given testimony under oath and even then, much as with previous examples of killing and stealing, this was an established practice in cultures pre-dating the ten(christian)commandments, such as The Babylonians. So, again, NOT a law. Moving on...

10"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." ...The act of "coveting" would be a thought-crime. Our entire concept of personal liberty, regardless of political leaning, stands against that notion. Besides which, people smarter and wiser than myself established a long time ago that our entire economy was based upon "coveting". It drives why we get out of bed in the morning and go to our jobs, try to look good for potential mates, further our education for more gainful employment.... this one is not only NOT a law and thoroughly un-American, it's anti-capitalist(whether you support capitalism or not) ...

SO... *sips her drink* There you go, lovely watcher. Laid out in full, the entire point-by-point, fact-checked issue, just for you. *smiles* because I love you and I respect you a bit more than you might think.... Yes, even if you're a christian(some of ya'll are dead sexy bitches, you get me?)... and definitely more than the yarbo currently typing out their ten-paragraph summary of how wrong I am in the comment section.


Maybe we should build a monument to Babylonian Law and put it on The Bible's front lawn? *chuckles* Seems to follow the same logic and it would be a more consistent application of it. *shrugs* Enjoy your evening, you sexy bouillon cubes of joy. *raises her glass* Cheers! One love for us all.