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!
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Published on May 16, 2013 15:21 Tags: faith, god, religion, scarlet-letter, sin, sinner, ten-commandments
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Li I see the 10 commandments as an impossible ideal to strive for but who really expects anyone to be able to follow all 10. How about we take this from a strengths-based perspective and have the # we wear be the ones we were actually able to achieve, if even for a moment?


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