At 10:45 AM 3/1/2010, b_s-wilk wrote: >The genius of the Ten Commandments--whether intentional or not--is that there >are ten proscriptions, and everything else is OK. The Bill of Rights is >similar, providing protections, but needed elaboration, hence the current >number of Constitutional Amendments to protect the rights of individuals and >minorities. > >For those who aren't familiar with the rest of the commandments, there were >actually over 600. We're lucky that K.I.S.S. weeded out most of the noxious >ones, mostly from Leviticus. Or Moses got tired of chiseling into stone when >he got to ten.
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