Christopher Hitchens: The New Commandments
By way of Vanity Fair magazine:
Hitchens dissects the best-known commandments (there are, of course, far more than the top-10 that they teach in Sunday school) and proposes 10 new ones (begins at 6:16):
- Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or their colour.
- Do not ever even think about using people as private property or as owned or as slaves.
- Despise those who use violence — or the threat of it — in a sexual relationship.
- Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child.
- Do not condemn people for their in-born nature. (Why would god create so many homosexuals only in order to torture and destroy them?)
- Be aware that you, too, are an animal and dependent on the web of nature; try to think and act accordingly.
- Don’t imagine that you can escape judgement if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
- Turn off that fucking cell phone (you can have no idea how unimportant your call is to us).
- Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions and terrible sexual repressions.
- Be willing to renounce any god or any faith if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above.
