These are the Ten Commandments found in the Holy Bible, paraphrased a'la Hollywood. They may look a little bit unfamiliar, in which case i'd like to direct you to Exodus 34:28, which specifically refers to the following ten rules as the ten commandments.
Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

• I. Thou shalt worship no other God.

• II. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

• III. Thou shalt eat unleavened bread for seven days.

• IV. Thou shalt sacrifice either a first-born lamb or a first-born ass, as well as all firstborn cattle, oxen and sheep.

• V. Thou shalt rest on one in every seven days, and work the other six.

And then there's the Sabbath - the choice of which day you take off. I would be happy to work any day of the week, so long as it didn't conflict with my uni schedule, and i don't think there's anything wrong with that. Nothing special about Sundays (or Saturdays, for that matter - or Fridays) for me, and for many other people.

• VI. Thou shalt have various feasts.

• VII. Thou shalt appear before God three times a year if thou is male.

• VIII. Thou shalt not include bread with a sacrifice, and if it's Passover, make sure you eat all your sacrifice before morning.

• IX. Thou shalt bring your first crops into the house of thy Lord.

• X. Thou shalt not boil a kid in mother's milk.

I was going to say that i didn't think we could salvage any of that drivel, but i can't really support the boiling of live goats. So i guess that makes 0.5 out of 10 Commandments salvageable.

COMMANDMENT SCORE: 0.5/10

The "Other" Ten Commandments

So those where the actual ten commandments. Let's move on to the earlier chapters in Exodus, where we find the the commandments most people in "Christian countries" (and i use the term loosely) will be familiar with.

• I. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.

• II(a) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

• II(b) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.

• III. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

• IV. Thou shalt remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy, and not do any work for that day.

• V. Honour thy father and thy mother.

• VI. Thou shalt not kill.

• VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

But taking this commandment at face value, as most modern readers seem to do, it still doesn't strike me as a particularly important, or righteous, one. Yes, i'm generally against adultery - it's cruel to the partner being cheated on. But i can't support making it illegal - such legislation would need to be very complex to avoid abuse (eg// by seperated but not divorced partners) and to avoid discrimination by marriage certificate. And besides all that, regulating sexual activity to this extent smacks of deep, deep wrongness (If you want a less vague argument, try: "it limits a persons freedom to safe, mutually consensual sex; a limit nobody should have the right to impose.") I'm gonna have to toss this one out with the others.

• VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

• IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigbour.

• X. Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbour's.

So we've got a couple of decent rules in this lot - no killing, stealing, or falsely accusing - and of course these are hardly unique to the Bible. But the overwhelming majority are the silly, petty, poorly thought-out tripe we tossed out with the second set of commandments, the actual "ten commandments", listed above. A poor effort.

COMMANDMENT SCORE: 2.75/10

The Other Other Ten Commandments

And here i'll list some of the Bible's other Godly commandments. And before you say "Oh, those rules were just for the Isrealites" - Please, please, think about that for half a second longer. Firstly, they are rules spoken by the Biblical God (if you beleive that) and endorsed by the Bible - making them relevant in any discussion of the irrelevance and immorality of the Holy Bible. Secondly, what difference does it make who these rules were for? One of our other modern ideals is that race should not affect the dignity and respect we accord somebody (an ideal rejected by the Bible, of course). Thirdly, as religious scholars often seem to just "pick and choose" which rules "applied only to the Isrealites" and which rules apply to everyone, and since the text itself doesn't make it very clear, it doesn't really seem to mean much that some folks claim these rules only applied to the Isrealites.

I will not comment on all of these; most tend to comment on themselves. We'll start with Exodus - continuing on directly from the commandments listed above, which many people think of as "the ten commandments". I have continued the numbering system, just to emphasise that these rules hold the same status, and continue on directly, from the rules known as "the ten commandments". I especially like the Thirteenth Commandment.

• XI. Thou shalt not make Gods of silver or gold.

• XII. Thou shalt hold animal sacrifices on an altar for me, but thou shalt not make this altar out of hewn stone, or with steps.

• XIII. Thou shalt set Hebrew slaves (along with their wives) free if they have given six years of service. If the wife has children, thou shalt keep the wife and children, but turn the slave himself out after six years. If he refuses to go, cut a hole in his ear and he shall serve you forever.

• If thou is male, thou shalt marry all the virgins who thou has sex with, and if thou can't, then thou must pay money equal to the value of a virgin female to the girl's father.

• Thou shalt kill witches.

Now, chapter 23 - up to verse 12, at least - of Exodus is actually fairly decent as far as Biblical chapters go. Hardly enough in proportion to the worthless stuff to warrant regarding it as a decent book in general, though. I'll move on, to some other assorted idiocies.

• Thou shalt not have homosexual sex.

Maybe in a few decades they'll have grown up, and joined the rest of us in the magical land of sanity.

• Thou shalt not associate with menstruating women.

• Thou shalt kill any betrothed virgin who is raped in the city and does not call out for help.

• Thou shalt marry thy rapist if thou is unbetrothed.

Hopefully my point is made: the Bible - and the Ten Commandments - is not a good moral guide. It is not a reflection of our laws. It is not a reflection of our values. It is an outdated, patriarchal, morally repugnant collection of mostly worthless rules. These rules should never make their way into a classroom, or a court of law - except, perhaps, as a target of critical, skeptical analysis and outright ridicule.

Here are principles NOT embraced by the Ten Commandments listed by Roy Moore. Let's start with some choice examples gleaned from the philosophy of the U.S. Constitution.

• Thou shalt not rule without citizenship in ones nation and the support of fellow inhabitants of that nation.

• Thou shalt respect certain basic rights and laws in all places, not just ones home state.

• Thou shalt never demand a religious test as a requirement for entering into government work.

• Thou shalt not legislate to promote religion

• Thou shalt not abridge freedom of speech or of the press

• Thou shalt not outlaw peaceful protest and assembly

• Thou shalt have a police/military, as it is considered nessecary for a free state

• Thou shalt not commit any searches, seizures, or punishments of an individual without a very good reason, (and "a very good reason" requires the input of a decent jury in the case of punishments)

• Thou shalt have the right to a fair public trial when accused of a crime, with access to all relevant information

• Thou shalt not enslave others, and involuntary servitude shall only be acceptable as a punishment following a fair trial

• Thou shalt have the right to vote on ones government, regardless of race or gender

• Thou shalt have these rights regardless of race, gender, nationality, language, social status, or property.

• Thou shalt have a right to ones life, freedom, and 'security of person'.

• Thou shalt not torture.

• Thou shalt have an effective system to preserve these rights.

• Thou shalt move freely.

• Thou shalt have the right to marry and have a family, and such acts may only be mutually consentual.

• Thou shalt not arbitrarily deprive a person of their property.

• Thou shalt have freedom of thought and conscience, and the right to a religion or no religion, and the right to change ones religion.

• Thou shalt make efforts to provide a social security to all members of a society.

• Thou shalt not unreasonably limit an employees leisure time.

• Thou shalt allow everyone to enjoy the benefits of artistic, cultural or scientific endeavours.

• Thou shalt allow everyone the right to an at least elementary education.

I could make arguments to slightly modify some of these more noble 'commandments' (for example, i would want education to be accurate - not just "there"), and i would add one or two (like: no killing, unless it's absolutely nessecary for self-defense or defense of another), but that's way ahead of the Bible right there. Let's ditch that stupid book and move on.

The One Commandment

One last thing. I do beleive there is a single commandment which we can use to derive a lot of good things and avoid a lot of bad things, one which recognises freedom, and the superficially paradoxical need to limit freedom to protect the freedom of others. This'll look very familiar to Wiccans.

• I. If it harms nobody, do as you will.