Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for April 14, 2012

Go ahead, BREAK it.

The Fink even ticks the clergyman off.

Which 6th? Adultery or murder?

i shalt not bear false witness. fink, your brand is commercial art. you’re the king of adverts. and yet, i find myself confessing to you…

I also find Number Six hard to break!;-)

Number six is easy for me to keep.

“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.” — H. L. Mencken

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” - Seneca

For those who have to look it up, the sixth commandment is “Thou Shall Not Kill”

Break one, you’ve broken them all!

Yikes…come on, people..First: the common misconception is that the Ten Commandments are a neat numbered list, like a PowerPoint presentation. In fact they appear twice, in Exodus and Deuteronomy, and with a lot of (non-identical) verbiage surrounding the first several ones in both places. The meaning is the same, but the divisions between them are debatable, and the first two can easily be combined into one. Believe it: no matter whose church you go to, none of them are missing..As for the images in Catholic churches and idol worship…sigh. Do you carry pictures of your spouse and kids in your wallet? Do you worship the pictures as idols, or ever mistake the pictures for the actual persons? No? Good. It’s the same in churches that have icons, statues, stained-glass windows, whatever. They’re representations, reminders, of the ones that we love — they may be admired and revered, but they are not “worshipped”. (Lord, I hope this helps.)

There are only ten commandments no thanks to Mel brooks.

I wonder how many readers will google the ten commandments, to understand today’s joke?

Religion on a roll..

I’m very devout. I’ve never set up a graven image in my life.

Ummm… I would have thought he stole much more than sermons: Tax dollars to support a lavish lifestyle, perhaps, like most rulers, politicians and bureaucrats.

I’d like to know what 11 thru 15 were.

I have noticed that people can be very religious – when it’s to their advantage to be so.

Wilberforce once asked the Born Loser:“What’s the difference between religion and a cult?”“Religion is what we believe in -Cults are what other people believe in.”

“Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s house,” i.e. Thou must not plagiarize.

Okay, I just made this one up. ;P

Those were written by Ambrose Bierce.

KISS OUR FREAKING GRITS LIBERAL!!!

@ Runar:

That is hysterical (& amazingly spot on) prose! Thanks for sharing!

“Sounds like an 19th Century George Carlin. Excellent. (I took a quick peak [sic] at Wikipedia)”Something like that. Start with The Devil’s Dictionary. Next, get of a good anthology of his stories and read “Oil of Dog”, “Chicamauga” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (which was broadcast as an episode of The Twilight Zone