A Liberal Version of the Ten Commandments
Characterizing modern liberalism as secular religion is commonplace today, although such a comparison amounts to a gross insult to Christianity, which has been the most frequent target of liberal assaults against religion, while Islam and other faiths have either been given a pass or even praised for their supposed virtues. Certainly equating liberalism with other profane systems of belief, such as Nazism, Fascism, and Marxism makes left-wing heads explode. On the other hand, at least these movements had codified their principles into convenient creeds or confessions; after all, you need something to set your thoughts on fire during book burnings, mob pillaging, frenzied adulations of the Great Leader, or the sort of ritualistic condemnations of Israel found at Democratic conventions.
So while Mussolini had his fascist ten commandments, Hitler had “Ein Reich, EinVölk, Ein Führer!” (along with the Nazi handbook), and Marxists had “Workers of the World, Unite!” (plus the Communist Manifesto), what do today’s liberals have? Answer: other than some bankrupt slogans and a collection of hyphenated phobias hurled against their enemies (conservatives, Republicans, and bitter clingers), not much.
Fortunately, this flaw can be corrected; all one needs to do is scoop into the pottage of left-wing shibboleths and retrieve the effluents to produce a convincing enumeration applicable to most situations. We’ll follow Mussolini in this regard, by using a Ten Commandments format, with God’s words followed by a liberal updating – or, perhaps better put, by some modern secular-progressive “corrections.” I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. Liberal Version: The Government is your sovereign, almighty and supreme, which raised some of you from the ranks of American citizens, lavished you with riches, privileges, and power, granted you immunity from prosecution, and rendered you secure in your lives for the rest of your days. You shall worship no other sovereigns before the government.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Liberal Version: You shall create images of worship that include the environment, approved groups, prominent government officials, and selected entertainment icons, forcing all citizens to venerate the same or suffer penalties of defamation, ruination of lives and livelihoods, or imprisonment. The government will not tolerate rivals to its edicts, despoiling generations of those against it and granting privileges indefinitely to those and their progeny who have gained its favor and obeyed its commands.
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. Liberal Version: You shall not mock the government, nor criticize it, nor utter any words derogatory or dismissive, in jest or inadvertently, about any group, person, or symbol considered special by government, academic, or media personages, and you shall revile your country, express contempt for its citizens and its history, appease its enemies, and scorn those who wish America well.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Liberal Version: You shall treat the first day of the week as you would any other day, expunge the word “Sabbath” from your thoughts and speech, submit cheerfully to commemorations of days bereft of any significance for you or the United States, and obey every edict that establishes special events for designated groups, while strictly observing admonitions about micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, and safe spaces, and preventing cultural appropriations of any self-proclaimed aggrieved person or group.
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. Liberal Version: You shall observe the Woodrow Wilson Rule on raising children, making them as unlike their fathers and mothers as possible, by instructing them in educational institutions filled with credentialed people who dismiss marriage and the family while endorsing any relationships that inflict damage on the same, remembering at all times that the land you think you own is controlled by the government.
You shall not murder. Liberal Version: You may murder unborn children if it suits your lifestyle or convenience, pay scant attention to murders within designated groups, while defaming those who, in the line of duty, take lives of individuals not of their own race, gender, or ethnicity, and tolerating murders committed by illegal aliens against American citizens.
You shall not commit adultery. Liberal Version: You may engage in any sexual relationships you desire, while celebrating unions among members of the same gender, or transgender, or bi-gender, and suffer ruinous penalties, condemnation, and/or threats against you for failures to comply with judicial or bureaucratic edicts that support so-called non-traditional marriage and self-designated sexual orientations.
You shall not steal. Liberal Version: You may take as much property from others as you can, through taxation, confiscation, or administrative extortion, while sympathizing with rampaging mobs, looters, and destroyers of property and neighborhoods, all the time justifying your actions as striving for social justice.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Liberal Version: You may bear false witness against others whenever necessary to further progressive goals, while waging war against freedom of speech, patriotism, Christianity, police officers, America’s military, so-called traditional families, equality of opportunity, and the right to bear arms, and lying about those who favor border security against invaders who live off the public dole, scorn our country, murder our citizens, and receive approbation for refusing to assimilate.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s. Liberal Version: You may covet anything that is your neighbor’s, by dividing America into groups based on race, religion, creed, ethnicity, class, gender, and other useful categories, and creating invidious comparisons among them, pitting all citizens against each other, the better to exalt the power of government to covet the goods and honor of everyone in the United States of America.
A summary of these commandments is that you must worship the state with all your heart, mind, and soul, and love yourselves as well, in order better to proclaim your moral superiority over the vast majority of the country’s inhabitants, endeavoring always to reduce them to the status of your subjects, servile, obedient, and helpless.
That pretty well sums it all up, although apologies are in order for the long sentences. However, in defense of the above verbiage, consider that the liberal version of the Ten Commandments is shorter than a typical Act of Congress by thousands of pages, is more honest and direct than a national party platform, and can easily be amended by adding sub-clauses (sub-commandments?) here and there, as need arises.
The liberal version also has the advantage of being mostly positive in nature, and reducing the font size yields a single sheet of paper that can be waved by hordes of devotees at liberal-progressive rallies – along the lines of those millions of screaming Chinese students waving Mao’s Little Red Book. Indeed, just change the color of the paper, and you’re in business.
The difficulty, of course, is that these commandments are harder to recite by memory at appropriate occasions. Then again, we’re talking about liberal-progressives, here; they don’t have to remember anything. They have the government to do that for them.
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That is because liberalism is quite literally the exact opposite of those ideologies, hence why all three are extremely hostile towards liberalism.
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"Characterizing modern liberalism as secular religion is commonplace today, although such a comparison amounts to a gross insult to Christianity, which has been the most frequent target of liberal assaults against religion, while Islam and other faiths have either been given a pass or even praised for their supposed virtues."
Total horse shit. The only snowflakes who believe liberals are assaulting Christianity are those who wrongly imagine saying "Happy Holidays" is an attack on Christmas. These self righteous deity fluffers who faint at the sight of a home not ensconced with Christmas lighting after November 28th are the same ones who imagine someone pointing out how Christianity and Islam have equal standing in the US, both allowing their members to worship as they wish, makes one a terrorist lover. They fantasize about their war with Islam surrounding the globe and anyone who doesn't condemn them must be in league with them. They couldn't be more wrong, but then, that's a regular state of being for them.
1) Go ahead and believe in whatever of the thousands of deities you want, just don't break the law or violate the constitutional rights of others.
2) Worship whatever you want provided you are not breaking the law and are not violating the constitutional rights of others.
3) Freedom of Speech rules.
4) Everyone needs a day off.
5) Don't be a dick to your parents.
6) If you kill someone in something other than self-defense you go to prison.
7) If you cheat on your spouse you lose big time in the divorce.
8) Don't be a goddamn theif and take other people's property.
9) Lying under otah is against the law.
10) Again, don't steal other people's shit. Oh, and women are not property.
That is my version of the 10 commandments.
As I read them,
only one person came to mind,
The Trippy Trumpster.
That is my version of the 10 commandments.
I would amend the first one to include words to the effect of feel free to have a complete non-belief if that's what works for you.
Eh, I could easily write a paragraph on each, I just wanted to make it simple because I was feeling lazy.
I can relate.
The right has it own version of state religion, they call it patriotism. The only way to make sure the state doesn't become the religion is to abolish the state.
Characterizing modern liberalism as secular religion is commonplace today, although such a comparison amounts to a gross insult to Christianity,
That's not near the insult as some NRA-bought politician pandering to religiosity and religionist-so-called "Christians," that, while lacking the balls to take a stand to protect (to whatever degree attainable) innocent children and families from some deranged, angry piece-of-shit who, despite his mental deficiencies, apparently didn't require much mental capacity to "LEGALLY" buy an assault weapon and 30-round magazines!
And, since we are into the daily round of right-wing, holier-than-thou, insults of liberals … here's a profession-level hit job!
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Simultaneous predator and parasite, the conservative feeds upon the lives it ultimately erodes and destroys via its boundless greed, and this, all the while, sanctimoniously praising God and electing The Devil to represent the banner under which it is ever the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The conservative “mind” (an oxymoronic euphemism), is a toilet that flushes, not to cleanse itself, rather to share its foul excrement with those who will spread it around as fertilizer in which they will plant and germinate seeds of deceitfulness and hatred; that “mind” is, at best, a place where complicated thoughts go to die, or, to die of loneliness.
This vile, self-righteous partisan-ideologue and perennial hypocrite, will piss forever on the floors of the dwellings of the permanent underclass it helps create and maintain by design, then superciliously holds its turned up metaphorical nose while condescendingly complaining that the lives of desperation it creates, smell like urine.
This troubler-of-his-own-house hypocritically enables the wealth generated by violence and conflict while it looks the other way from the devastation ... unless of course, it becomes its own victim ... when, upon which time, it sobs in false outrage … for justice.
This so-called "compassionate-conservative" is this ultimate smear machine and reincarnate-Joseph Goebbels who takes credit for good he has no hand in manufacturing and blames those he has harmed, for being self-destructive. The conservative knows the price of everything … and the value of nothing.
When he takes charge of the henhouse, he is the Fox. Despite the hens’ vital role ... it is often abused by the Master of the House who spreads his “seed” as a self-appointed benevolent despot … and does so as if he was the layer of golden eggs.
Ah, yes, The (present) Master of the House … “Isn’t worth me spit, philanderer, philosopher and life-long-shit!”
The conservative is the self-appointed champion of lives not yet born, this, while being the profiteer-pillager of God’s earth … the planet upon which the unborn of today will have to live tomorrow … this holier-than-thou, “I’ve got mine and fuck everyone else” purveyor of all the “legal” misery that money can dump upon the “others,” those vilified scapegoats he offers to angry shills who rant insidious, endless lies about justifiable, humane entitlements for the child now-born, the sick and the old.
And so today, I offer no large or colored fonts, no copy and pasted inconvenient truths that the style-police can attack instead of the content for which they mostly offer bumper-sticker "rebuttals" …
Ad hominem attack as you always do, you … compassionate-conservatives.
blah blah blah....."I hate liberals" blah blah blah... Same old crap.
Conservative commandments:
1) Hate anyone that isn't white.
2) Hate anyone that isn't a conservative.
3) Hate anyone that isn't rich.
4) Hate anyone that helps the poor.
5) Hate anyone that isn't straight.
6) Hate anyone that doesn't speak, "Murican".
7) Hate anyone that wants responsible spending in the government.
8) Hate anyone that supports civil rights.
9) Hate anyone that supports equality.
10) Hate anyone that isn't a fascist asshole.
You must lead a pretty pathetic life. You come on these boards with an obsession of lying about conservatives..
people like you are why the Democrats must never again gain national power. Their thirst for totalitarian Marxist statism is the enemy of everyone who loves liberty
people like you are why the Democrats must never again gain national power. Their thirst for totalitarian Marxist statism is the enemy of everyone who loves liberty
And people like you are why there are people like us … who resist myopic hatred, stereotyping and scapegoating, people who convince themselves that only people who think the way they think, love liberty.
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn
“Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Hi Larry! It looks like even Republicans are realizing that their party has truly gone off the deep end:
And just what do you think that comment number 10 is if not
Or have you convinced yourself that you and those that think like you are exempt?
LMAO!!! You never cease to entertain Larry, you say this about EVERYONE, so I am in good company. Thanks!
Us commie/fascist/socialist/statist/totalarian/Marxists have finally surrounded Larry. We're all in on it.
Please explain how guaranteed equal rights for all people regardless of race, creed, color, gender, sexual orentation or economics is a totalitarian statist idea?
What on Earth is that? (Good grief man do not use labels unless you understand the underlying concepts.)
Well it's ABOUT TIME that we can drop the act. When we going to start rounding them up and take their guns and stuff and start filling those camps we have hidden in the sub-basements of Macy's and PennyPinchers?
It'll be easier just to round 'em up at Walmart...jus' sayin'.....
That could work. Announce a big sale on ammunition, spam and chewing tobacco and lock the doors after they're in.
What is your persecution complex telling you that progressives would do after a Wal-Mart Supercenter is used as a 300,000sq ft TEAparty mousetrap?
It does no such thing. That is your own imagination.
That supposed intent happens only in your mind.
What are you afraid of occurring?
Jesus H. Christ. Are you telling us that you can't recognize humor when you see it?
If you can't see the joke, I'm not sure anyone can explain it to you. No, it really has nothing to do with either basements or FEMA camps.
Yeah, that's right, and you haven't even heard the finial solution, yet.
ROFL, no, not that, but we're going to grab all your kids and FORCE them to get a actual education, and won't teach them Religion, you'll have to do that job all by yourself.
YAHAHAHAHA! It'll be the end of life as you know it!!!
I knew that some religious people and some conservatives are somewhat impressionable (putting it politely) but I didn't realize they will believe absolutely anything.
Reminds me of a fella that tried to press straw together in his hands, hoping to make them into a 2"X4" wooden board.
Some members of humanity gather rumors, innuendoes, pure gossip and maybe a line or two from a fake news articles and try to press them together with "how they want the world to be" and try to make all that into a fact.
Would it make you feel better if it was abandoned military bases? There is room for thousands of conservatives at the unused Ravenna Arsenal that's about an hour from me. The site is known to be contaminated with various toxic chemicals that may include mustard gas, so those conservatives who oppose the EPA and their meddling regulations will feel very much at home.
While I believe that our conservative friends are wrong in almost every idea they post on this site or on any of the other sites I visit, I respect their right to hold opinions that will be proven to be fallacious in the eyes of history. Progress does not occur there isn't a fringe right group pressing the absurd. Even the ten commandments, which heartland is boasting as a model of conservatism was, in fact, the most liberal document, written in response to the barbarism of the times.
I always welcome the conservative outlook and love to have the opportunity to argue against it. I know I am on the right side of history.....As a liberal, in my lifetime, I've seen the granting of equal rights, the granting of a woman's right to choose, the condemnation of an immoral war, medicare, a social safety net, gay rights, the right to education for all children, etc.
We are not yet done. Trump is an aberration. That aberration will be corrected in the next two election cycles and will lead to the passing of a universal health care act, restrictions on guns and the re-emergence of the United States as the moral leader of the world.
It's really not surprising that a reactionary phase like what Trump represents always follows a period of significant societal progress, particularly here where a truly regressive white supremacist succeeds the first black president. But the handful of sane Republicans today are already worried about what Trump means for the survival of the GOP:
That was a great article.
I agree. Great article! This year's CPAC shows the continued crumbling of the Republican Party into nothing more then a far-far-far-right wing fringe group. It makes me wonder if the real republicans are going to keep following the far right into destruction or if they'll finally grow the balls to purge their party of them? Once upon a time the Democratic Party had a far right racist wing in the South and it cost the Party dearly in elections to purge itself of them, but it was the right thing to do. The GOP is faced with much the same decision right now.
I kind of think the GOP painted themselves into a corner when they married with the bible-babblers and the racist southern whites over the past 50 years. They really can't eject their base, can they?
It's the same corner the Democratic Party was in before LBJ signed The Civil Rights Act and The Voting Rights Act and said something along the lines of "We just lost the South for a generation". He was right. The Old South racists deserted the Democratic Party in huge masses and ran right into the open arms of the GOP.
Bravo! Well said! In the end, Progressiveness always wins! Sometimes it's one step back before we take those two steps forward, but those two steps forward always happen!
Well this certainly puts the O in odd.
Wasn't Jesus (the guy they named Christianity after), kind of a love one another as one would love themselves individual? Kind of a contradiction you have presented.