This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

Imagine there's no heaven.

It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Hi, I'm Dan Barker.

I'm co-president with Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

Free Thought Radio is coming to you from the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,

which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.

The foundation works to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views

of non-theists, that's atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, and other types of unbelievers.

If you are a happy non-believer, we hope you will join our

national organization of more than 40,000 members nationwide. You can sign up, or you can just ask

for information at fFRF.org. Our show today is, what's Wrong with the Ten Commandments?

Andy, Lori and I talked about that on our TV show, Freethought Matters.

One of the perennial violations we encounter at the Freedom from Religion Foundation

is the imposition of the Ten Commandments on governmental landscapes.

So today we're going to devote our program to something you may never have encountered criticism of the Bible,

specifically what's wrong with the Ten Commandments. Most people think of the Ten Commandments

as epitomizing wise law-giving. But these Bible edicts, in fact, epitomize

the opposite, the childishness, the vindictiveness, the sexism, the inflexibility, and the moral

inadequacies of the Bible.

Only six of the Ten Commandments even try to deal with what we would consider individual

human-to-human moral conduct.

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