# If God asked you to abolish a commandment, which would it be?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-god-asked-you-to-abolish-a-commandment-which-would-it-be/130061>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 29, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-god-asked-you-to-abolish-a-commandment-which-would-it-be/130061 "2002-09-29T03:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-god-asked-you-to-abolish-a-commandment-which-would-it-be/130061/41 "2002-10-02T02:00:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by astorian \*  
> **Gosh, too bad Jesus wasn’t as smart as you! He could have saved himself an awful lot of pain!**

Your right, he should have realized his disciples and followers would eventually distort his message of love and respect towards others.

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> **I mean, what if, instead of coming to Earth as a man, and dying on a cross, he’d thought, "You know… the religion I’m teaching is no better than any other.**

My belief is that he didn’t come down to “teach religion”.

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> **If people are happy with paganism, who am I to disrespect them and tell them to change?**

If only. If only.

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> \*\*I mean, what am I- God?" \*\*

“Thou Art That”. Your sarcasm brings out an inner truth. 😃

And by the way, I would take out number two. I love graven images!

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-god-asked-you-to-abolish-a-commandment-which-would-it-be/130061/42 "2002-10-02T10:30:42Z")

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Depends on what you mean.

If I assume there is no God, then I’d leave the commandments but abolish anything in the bible people use to justify holy wars or rejection of medicine and contraception.

If abolishing a commandment would allow me to to break it without hellish consequences I’d go for the hardest to keep - coveting, vain-name-taking, or having God as my lord. If my parents weren’t so wonderful, I might have to go for the honoring them one.

The really interesting one is if abolishing the commandment means it’s _not wrong_ to break it. I’d probably go for adultery 😃

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