I try not to post things here that I haven’t been the author of but I just became aware of the following and decided to maybe offer it to my limited audience. So for your reading pleasure I offer “a revision of the ten commandments” or “a Decalogue for the 21st century.”
by Christopher Hitchens
- Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or their color
- Do not ever even think of using people as private property or as owned or as slaves
- Despise those who use violence or the threat of it in sexual relations
- Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child
- Do not condemn people for their inborn nature
- Be aware that you too are an animal and dependent on the web of nature, try and think and act accordingly
- Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus
- Turn off that fucking cellphone – 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.
- 10. Be willing to renounce any God or any religion if any of the holy commandments contradict any of the above.
In short: Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form.
the platitudes of willful resemblance 