A better 10 Commandments

“When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten Commandments have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.”
Katha Pollitt, "Stacked Decalogue," The Nation, September 22, 2003

Via Laura

This is an interesting thought. What would have been a better 10 Rules for society?

YHWH's concerns:
1. religious competition
2. physical representations of gods
3. trademark infringement of the YHWH brand
4. leisure time
5. family relationships
6. right to life
7. right to property
8. truth in the public square/legal system
9. sex with someone else's property
10. attitudes of have nots toward haves