Oh, I didn't read the explanation.

Dude, doesn't that make it not just a trick question but a trick commandment if nobody can avoid breaking it?

eta, Cindy et al, I hope my making light of it isn't bothersome. I do find stuff like this so out there that it doesn't feel to me like mocking real people, but I hope it doesn't come across that way.

It says that everyone has broken the 1st Commandment, so if you say you haven't then you're braking the 9th Commandment.

Okay yeah, so apparently I am going to get myself all riled up before I go to Social Security. There's this whole nasty little sub-philosophy amongst some fundies and some evangelicals that equates holding anything important with idolatry. I think it's a crazy-guilt-making exercise that does nothing to increase a person's natural love of and devotion to, and connection with G-d, which is the point of the first commandment. Gimme a whip. It's time to clear out the temple.

I'm unreasonably annoyed at being told that I'm lying when I say I haven't broken the first commandment.

I love they say that liberals couldn't live with the "lusted in his heart" line from Matthew when Jimmy Carter is the President who has actually quoted it.

Dude, doesn't that make it not just a trick question but a trick commandment if nobody can avoid breaking it?

Well, that's the quiz writers interpretation. They're just trying to make the point that everyone is a sinner, but they're just doing it in a silly way that makes them look stupid.

I think being a Christian is supposed to help, but I didn't read the whole thing so I'm not sure.

Not so much. Apparently things like going to church and reading the Bible regularly are nice enough and all, but essentially meaningless in the face of such hellworthy sins as having uttered the occasional "Oh, Lord!" or stolen a paperclip from work.

That whole thing would make my head explode, except that then I think about all the other stuff in this guy's Ultimate Guide To Life -- all that business about judging not lest ye be judged, being forgiven exactly just so much as you're willing to forgive others, caring for the least and poorest and worst among us, and tending to your own salvation and keeping your nose out of other people's business, and I feel fairly certain that when this guy dies Jesus is gonna be all "What. Ev." and t rolls eyes FOREVAH at him.

Gud, you forgot hateful and judgmental.

but they're just doing it in a silly way that makes them look stupid.

Gud, you forgot hateful and judgmental.

None of which are sins.

I think.

It says that everyone has broken the 1st Commandment, so if you say you haven't then you're braking the 9th Commandment.

Boy there's just no winning with this God. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

There's this whole nasty little sub-philosophy amongst some fundies and some evangelicals that equates holding anything important with idolatry.

So, a whole culture of people who never get to meetings on time? When I'm a god, Thou shalt not fuck around with other people's time will be a commandment.

Right before If thou art a drycleaner, thou shalt never charge more than $5 for cleaning a single winter coat.

Perhaps I am a bit of a micro-manager. But, I'm told a lot of people like that in a god.

There's this whole nasty little sub-philosophy amongst some fundies and some evangelicals that equates holding anything important with idolatry.

Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.