If the Ten Commandments really were the foundation of the American legal system...

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1. if i'm not mistaken, only 3 commendments are actually illegal

killing, stealing, and bearing false witness (at least under oath).

in some places i suppose there are still blue laws preventing actual stores from being open on, arguably that has something to do with remembering the sabbath, but work on sunday or saturday itself is not illegal, nor is commerce in general, nor is failing to observe sabbath illegal; only opening the store to customers is illegal.



i think the fact that the bill of rights has the 10 amendments actually makes some people confuse it with the 10 commandments, or think that proves they're related!

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2. "Thou shalt not seeth a lamb in its mother's milk."

That's always been my favorite.

Of course the familiar ten commandment story is repeated, as are many Biblical legends. They are called dublets. Two creation accounts; more than two ten commandment accounts; two Lot leaving Sodom accounts; two Goliath accounts (in one David doesn't kill Goliath); etc.

There are whole books of the Jewish Bible that are dublets, where whole histories are retold with myriads of discrepancies. (Kings I&II vs Chronacles I&II).

I want the commandment in my post's title to be put forth as a Constitutional amendment. After all, if it's a commandment from God, it should be law.

Then, maybe we can purge the world of all the illegal seething. If we had coast-to-coast seething patrols, Aurora wouldn't have happened.

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3. Does actually sound kinda sick, yet at the same time, considerate to the ewe.

Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. Deuteronomy 14:21

Gotta love the part where it's OK to feed a naturally dead animal to a stranger and even sell it to an alien.

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4. Wouldn't work in TX

Eat more possum!

Here in MI, fresh road kill often goes on the menu. Most prominently, white tail deer have a tendency to run directly either into the path of a car, or into the car itself.

Slaughter on the highway. But good eatin'.