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Title: The Decalogue as Revised
Author: Adam Anarchist
Date: June 30, 1894
Language: en
Topics: manifesto, christianity, religion
Source: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/catechisms-and-dialogues/adam-anarchist-the-decalogue-as-revised-1894/
Notes: Liberty 10 no. 4 (June 30, 1894): 8.

Adam Anarchist

The Decalogue as Revised

I. Thou shalt have no gods save Liberty, Reason, and Justice.

II. Thou shalt not take unto thee any legal image, for instance, a wife.

III. Thou shalt pay no taxes, nor collect them.

IV. The Sabbath exists for thee, not thou for it, therefore thou shalt

on that as on all other days follow faithfully thy ego’s promptings.

V. Honor render to all to whom it is due—mayhap to thy parents. But let

not filial affection blind thee to the fact that the vast majority of

the race are strangers to Reason, without ability to perceive or

strength to practise any rational policy. While thou mayest not relish

declaring to thy parents’ faces that they are fools, yet thou shouldst

learn from their folly so to act that thy child may not brand thee

“fool.”

VI. Thou shalt not kill aught save superstition, error, and privilege.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Adultery is the sexual union of two

persons, either of whom is repulsive to the other.

VIII. Thou shalt not permit others to steal from thee, nor shalt thou

steal from others.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness respecting things of the earth

which thou understandest, nor respecting things above the earth of which

thou knowest nothing.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, unless she also covet thee.