So Alex Tabarrok has a post today on suggestions for an 11th Commandment, seemingly suggesting that the 10 already proposed thousands of years back weren't enough.
Abstracting from warnings about adding to the words of the Bible, and the utter irony of the created man saying to his creator "I don't think you got this quite right", this is a great example of how I think most people view Christianity - something to pick and choose from, and amend if we don't like it.
I think most of all is the silliness of the proposed commandment - at what point is the sixth commandment (thou shalt not murder - especially taken in the context of Matthew 5:21-24) not sufficient to cover not spreading the Word of God by the sword?
It probably reveals another common misunderstanding or misperception of Christians, that they should all be following all these rules, and if they don't, they won't get into Heaven, and hence when they fail (like spreading the word by the sword) they are criticised as hypocrites. Christianity is about relationship with the Lord Jesus, about forgiveness of sins, not about becoming perfect and not sinning in the here and now.
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