Mar 29 2006
The Ten Commandments of Covering Religion
Good morning. Another sunny, early spring day. Wanted to let you know about a great post at Petty Larseny I found today via Buzzflash, called ”The Ten Commandments of Covering Religion”. It is a commentary that touches upon that recurring theme here at FBC… holding religion up to the same critical scrutiny as anything else. This is written with journalists in mind. It’s really nothing extreme, by any means. It’s just a call for journalists to cover religious issues with the same investigative and critical style. They may seem a bit enigmatic on the surface, but they’re really quite simple. You should hop over and read the article, where it goes into detail about each of them. They are:
1. Thou shalt have no other god without confirmation.
2. Thou shalt not make the grave mistake of assuming uniform adherence to denominational tenets.
3. Thou shalt not take the Lord’s word in vain.
4. Remember the soul, to keep it wholly in mind.
5. Honor thy first source and thy second source.
6. Thou shalt not kill heterogeneity.
7. Thou shalt not commit adulteration.
8. Thou shalt not steal the boundaries between faith and reason.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor’s religion or lack thereof.
10. Thou shalt not covet privacy for religion.
Also have a read of this from Cenk Uygur, with another call to start ‘an open dialogue as to whether religion makes sense.’
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John, let’s go man.. you’re getting lazy. what are you doing with your time?
Not playing enough trombone…