I don’t see anything in the list about putting on a vinyl sundress and getting buttfucked by a rhino. Score!
If you stab the neighbor who was coveting your husband, but you don’t kill them and you have no intention of killing them, does that count?
WhoooHooo! I’m not a sinner after all! Damn, I was sooooo worried…
Might be covered under “You shall not commit adultry” i.e. having sex with someoe you are not married to.
Adultery is not sex with someone you are not married to. It is better described as “conjugal infidelity,” as ChristianAnswers.net cites:
Sex outside of marriage (ie, two unmarried people) is fornication, not adultery.
Spoilsport!! I’m sticking to my guns, fornication is a different word, why else have a different word? Adultery is breaking a matrimonial vow, fornication is sex without a marriage vow, IIUC.
Of course I’m pagan, so this is just an intellectual exercise. All acts of pleasure are a dedication to the goddess, and the only sin is knowingly hurting another. (except to prevent a greater hurt.)
ETA - I see Seodoa brought the cites, if not the pie.
This is kind of silly. They’re not meant to be an exhaustive list; that’s what the rest of the Torah is for (and even then they have the “Don’t be a jerk rule” ;)).
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
But you’re not ‘stealing’ it. Just binding it to carbon, then releasing it for the plants to feed on. Circle of life and all that.
Yep! “No gods before me” is not the same as “I am the one and only”. Just make sure it’s actually the demon and not a graven image. Especially not one you carved yourself.
Who says I didn’t bring pie? I’ve got cinnamon-apple, elderberry, pumpkin, and lemon meringue.
We’re pie people in this house.
ETA: It’s important to note, though, that fornication can include adultery. While fornication is generally used to mean sex outside of wedlock, the word is often used as a catch-all term for any sexual immorality. So adultery is merely one of many kinds of fornication, including (according to the Torah, at least) homosexuality, bestiality, certain flavors of incest, etc. [cite]
Lemon meringue pie please, cheers babe.
Can I be the voice of dissent and say that some of my best times have been had breaking some of the ten commandments? Only the silly ones, mind, like taking the LORD’s name in vain, honouring your parents (mum fine, my father’s a dick, so no), and adultery if you choose for that to include sexual immorality (which is the best kind or immorality!). Technically I’m not breaking the first one as I don’t have any god at all, and I don’t think absence of a god counts in these terms.
I’ve never understood the continued insistence that the 10 commandments form the solid foundation for a system of morals given that some of them are so totally self evident as to not be necessary, whilst others are just plain stupid (even more so when you consider the wider context of the old testament - apparently not murder just means “don’t kill any other Jews”).
I don’t think God really gives a damn who I do it with, as long as I’m not doing it with someone else’s partner.
Oh, and I’ll have a slice of pumpkin, if there’s any left.
You clearly haven’t read that bit where he said lying with another man as with a woman is an abomination (believe me I’ve had that particular bit quoted to me often enough to not forget it). Obviously that isn’t in the original 10, but consensus is that the 10 on their own aren’t enough, you need the rest of the bible.
Well, in my defense, my neighbor’s ox is totally awesome. I mean, that’s one cool ox.
You can hate your parents, so long as you don’t tell them to their faces.
Yeah, I always thought of the Ten Commandments sort of as the Bill of Rights, except they tell you what you can’t do instead of what you’re free to do. And then the rest of the book (Torah, or the extended Bible if you go that way) is the legislation.
Oh, phew - I get a pass on that one then (telling my father I can’t stand him would require talking to him).
Well, in that case, God is probably pretty pissed at me. I’ve had that quoted at me many times, also. For some reason, I forget it exists.
It’s okay - we can be damned to hell fire for eternity together.
It’s more fun breaking the rules than it is following them.