Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Lästips: 10 nya budord

Christopher Hitchens, ivrig ateist/journalist/debattör gjorde för nåt år sen ett försök att skriva om, eller snarare byta ut, de klassiska tio budorden mot 10 moderna och i mitt tycke mycket vettigare budord att leva efter:
  1. Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color.
  2. Do not ever use people as private property.
  3. Despise those who use violence or the threat of it in sexual relations.
  4. Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child.
  5. Do not condemn people for their inborn nature—why would God create so many homosexuals only in order to torture and destroy them?
  6. Be aware that you too are an animal and dependent on the web of nature, and think and act accordingly.
  7. Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
  8. Turn off that fucking cell phone—you have no idea how unimportant your call is to us.
  9. Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions.
  10. Be willing to renounce any god or any religion if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above.
In short: Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.
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Nyfiken på Hitchens? Tänk dig en korsning av Stephen Fry och en pitbullterrier. CBS 60 minutes gjorde ett inslag om honom i mars. I fjol blev han diagnostiserad med cancer, och nyligen tappade han talförmågan, men han skriver alltjämt, exempelvis just om att förlora talförmågan. Här är inslaget från CBS 60 Minutes:



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