“Is it too modern to notice that there is nothing [in the ten commandments] about the prot

“Is it too modern to notice that there is nothing [in the ten commandments] about the protection of children from cruelty, nothing about rape, nothing about slavery, and nothing about genocide? Or is it too exactingly ‘in context’ to notice that some of these very offenses are about to be positively recommended?”

– Christopher Hitchens

The temporal morality of an eternal being.