Eddie Whitlock's Blog: Reader and Writer - Posts Tagged "sin"
Casting the First Stone
I think it would be entertaining to have a day - maybe one day every year - when people have to wear a number on their backs. The number would tell how many of the Ten Commandments that person has broken.
It wouldn't say which ones, just a number of how many.
You gotta figure most people would probably score five or six at least. Those are some pretty tough commandments, after all. And we're pretty lousy creatures.
I find the whole list pretty confusing (they overlap) and vague, if you listen to people who tell you that if you hate someone, well, that's like killing them.
Me? I scored anywhere from 8 to 11, depending on how well I was counting.
I realize that this would be impossible to enforce. It would also open an interesting door: The guy who has the number ONE on his back tells you that his only sin is lying. Heh heh heh! Gotcha there!
It wouldn't say which ones, just a number of how many.
You gotta figure most people would probably score five or six at least. Those are some pretty tough commandments, after all. And we're pretty lousy creatures.
I find the whole list pretty confusing (they overlap) and vague, if you listen to people who tell you that if you hate someone, well, that's like killing them.
Me? I scored anywhere from 8 to 11, depending on how well I was counting.
I realize that this would be impossible to enforce. It would also open an interesting door: The guy who has the number ONE on his back tells you that his only sin is lying. Heh heh heh! Gotcha there!
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