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Consider transferring direct quotations to <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/Alternatives_to_the_Ten_Commandments" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/Alternatives to the Ten Commandments">Wikiquote</a> or excerpts to <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search/Alternatives_to_the_Ten_Commandments" class="extiw" title="s:Special:Search/Alternatives to the Ten Commandments">Wikisource</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2018</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Several <b>alternatives to the Ten Commandments</b> have been promulgated by different persons and groups, which intended to improve on the lists of laws known as the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a> that appear in the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>. Lists of these kinds exist in many different cultures and times. They are sometimes given names – for example, the Hindu <a href="/wiki/Yamas" title="Yamas">Yamas</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anton_LaVey">Anton LaVey</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Anton_Lavey" class="mw-redirect" title="Anton Lavey">Anton Lavey</a> was an American author, musician, and occultist. He was the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Satan" title="Church of Satan">Church of Satan</a> and <a href="/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism" title="LaVeyan Satanism">LaVeyan Satanism</a>. </p><p>The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth. </p> <ol><li>Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.</li> <li>Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.</li> <li>When in another's home, show them respect or else do not go there.</li> <li>If a guest in your home annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.</li> <li>Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.</li> <li>Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.</li> <li>Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires.</li> <li>Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.</li> <li>Do not harm little children.</li> <li>Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.</li> <li>When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="George_Carlin">George Carlin</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a> was an American <a href="/wiki/Stand-up" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand-up">stand-up</a> comedian, social critic, actor and author. </p><p>In 2001, in his twelfth HBO <a href="/wiki/Stand-up" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand-up">stand-up</a> comedy special <i><a href="/wiki/Complaints_and_Grievances" title="Complaints and Grievances">Complaints and Grievances</a></i>, after making fun of the Ten Commandments, Carlin initially suggests two commandments, but then adds a third.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Thou shalt always be honest and faithful, especially to the provider of thy nookie.</li> <li>Thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone, unless of course, they pray to a different invisible man in the sky.</li> <li>Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christopher_Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a> was an English American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. </p><p>His new Ten Commandments are:<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or their color.</li> <li>Do not ever even think of using people as private property, or as owned, or as slaves.</li> <li>Despise those who use violence or the threat of it in sexual relations.</li> <li>Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child.</li> <li>Do not condemn people for their inborn nature — why would God create so many homosexuals only in order to torture and destroy them?</li> <li>Be aware that you, too, are an animal, and dependent on the web of nature. Try and think and act accordingly.</li> <li>Do not imagine that you can escape judgement if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.</li> <li>Turn off that cell phone — you can have no idea how unimportant your call is to us.</li> <li>Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions. And terrible sexual repressions.</li> <li>Be willing to renounce any god or any faith if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above.</li></ol> <dl><dd><dl><dd><ul><li>In short: Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.</li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Richard_Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a> is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. </p><p>These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments, cited by Dawkins in his book <i><a href="/wiki/The_God_Delusion" title="The God Delusion">The God Delusion</a></i>:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Rule" title="Golden Rule">Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you</a>.</li> <li>In all things, strive to cause no harm.</li> <li>Treat your fellow human beings, your fellow living things, and the world in general with love, honesty, faithfulness and respect.</li> <li>Do not overlook evil or shrink from administering justice, but always be ready to forgive wrongdoing freely admitted and honestly regretted.</li> <li>Live life with a sense of joy and wonder.</li> <li>Always seek to be learning something new.</li> <li>Test all things; always check your ideas against the facts, and be ready to discard even a cherished belief if it does not conform to them.</li> <li>Never seek to censor or cut yourself off from dissent; always respect the right of others to disagree with you.</li> <li>Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others.</li> <li>Question everything.</li></ol> <p>Dawkins uses these proposed commandments to make a larger point that "it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent person today would come up with". He then adds four more of his own devising: </p> <ul><li>Enjoy your own sex life (so long as it damages nobody else) and leave others to enjoy theirs in private whatever their inclinations, which are none of your business.</li> <li>Do not discriminate or oppress on the basis of sex, race or (as far as possible) species.</li> <li>Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.</li> <li>Value the future on a timescale longer than your own.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bertrand_Russell">Bertrand Russell</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel laureate</a>. </p><p>He formulated these ten commandments:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.</li> <li>Do not think it worthwhile to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.</li> <li>Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.</li> <li>When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.</li> <li>Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.</li> <li>Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.</li> <li>Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.</li> <li>Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.</li> <li>Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.</li> <li>Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bayer_and_Figdor's_Ten_Non-Commandments"><span id="Bayer_and_Figdor.27s_Ten_Non-Commandments"></span>Bayer and Figdor's Ten Non-Commandments</h3></div> <p>As detailed in the book <i><a href="/wiki/Atheist_Mind_Humanist_Heart" title="Atheist Mind Humanist Heart">Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart</a>: Re-writing the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century</i> by Lex Bayer and the Stanford Humanist Chaplain <a href="/wiki/John_Figdor" title="John Figdor">John Figdor</a>, it is devoted to the subject of creating a secular alternative to the Ten Commandments and encouraging readers to formulate and discover their own list of beliefs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>The world is real, and our desire to understand the world is the basis for belief.</li> <li>We can perceive the world only through our human senses.</li> <li>We use rational thought and language as tools for understanding the world.</li> <li>All truth is proportional to the evidence.</li> <li>There is no God.</li> <li>We all strive to live a happy life. We pursue things that make us happy and avoid things that do not.</li> <li>There is no universal moral truth. Our experiences and preferences shape our sense of how to behave.</li> <li>We act morally when the happiness of others makes us happy.</li> <li>We benefit from living in, and supporting, an ethical society.</li> <li>All our beliefs are subject to change in the face of new evidence, including these.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Atheists'_New_Ten_Commandments"><span id="The_Atheists.27_New_Ten_Commandments"></span>The Atheists' New Ten Commandments</h3></div> <p>These are the ten winning beliefs of the Rethink Prize, a crowdsourcing competition to rethink the Ten Commandments. The contest drew more than 2,800 submissions from 18 countries and 27 U.S. states. Winners were selected by a panel of judges. <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.</li> <li>Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you wish to be true.</li> <li>The scientific method is the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.</li> <li>Every person has the right to control of their body.</li> <li>God is not necessary to be a good person or to live a full and meaningful life.</li> <li>Be mindful of the consequences of all your actions and recognize that you must take responsibility for them.</li> <li>Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective.</li> <li>We have the responsibility to consider others, including future generations.</li> <li>There is no one right way to live.</li> <li>Leave the world a better place than you found it.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ten_Indian_Commandments">Ten Indian Commandments</h3></div> <p>The Bird Clan of East Central Alabama has the Ten Indian Commandments.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Remain close to the Great Spirit.</li> <li>Show great respect for your fellow beings.</li> <li>Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.</li> <li>Be truthful and honest at all times.</li> <li>Do what you know to be right.</li> <li>Look after the well being of mind and body.</li> <li>Treat the earth and all that dwell there on with respect.</li> <li>Take full responsibility for your actions.</li> <li>Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.</li> <li>Work together for the benefit of all man kind.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Summum">Summum</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Summum" title="Summum">Summum</a> is an informal gathering of people registered as a tax exempt organization in the state of <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, U.S., in 1975. </p><p>Summum contradicts the historical Biblical account of the Ten Commandments by claiming that, before returning with the Commandments, Moses descended from <a href="/wiki/Mount_Sinai" title="Mount Sinai">Mount Sinai</a> with a first set of tablets inscribed with seven principles they call aphorisms. </p><p>According to the group, the seven principles are:<sup id="cite_ref-summum1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-summum1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-summum2_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-summum2-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>SUMMUM is MIND, thought; the universe is a mental creation.</li> <li>As above, so below; as below, so above.</li> <li>Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.</li> <li>Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes bond; all truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.</li> <li>Everything flows out and in; everything has its season; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing expresses itself in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.</li> <li>Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is just a name for Law not recognized; there are many fields of causation, but nothing escapes the Law of 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