Sarah Vowel's column on the Ten Commandments in today's New York Times is funny, but she - like everbody else I read - accepts them as good. Isn't it time for somebodu to point out that the last commandment endorses slavery and women-as-property?
A movie I saw the other day, Kingdom of Heaven, argues that religion inspires, fosters and gets away with murder. Obviously. But moralists get away with a lot, too, including inhumanity toward man.
Maybe we need to post the Ten Commandments to spur argument about what is virtue.
We could begin with "Thou shalt not kill," asking where Jews and Christians find the exceptions for war and capital punishment.