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Big Mac vs. 10 Commandments

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A recent study shows that more people can name the ingredients of a Big Mac than can name the 10 commandments (Yay! There's hope for this country yet!).

Just on the odd chance you want to remember both, here's some help:

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I have a few better ideas for the 4 and the 5. The 4 they use looks like it could be the front of a car or van (facing to your left), so they could use this as someone driving to church on Sunday. As for the 5, why not point out that it looks like the profile of a woman who is about to have a baby? That's much easier than mom and dad laying down in the shape of a 5.

7 and 9 could use some work, too.

I've always found it handy to memorize the 10 commandments. It's always fun when a Christian can't recall all of them, and an atheist like myself can rattle them off in and out of order! :D

Hey, does anybody have a system for remembering what the Bible calls the 10 commandments (Exodus 34)? ;)
 
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Haha - I'll bet they can't really name the ingredients... just the words from the jingle. I'm not sure "special sauce" counts as an ingredient, at least not by FDA labeling standards.

I also question the "two all-beef patties".

ETA: Of course, I could be wrong
 
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True, they can't REALLY name the ingredients. On the other hand, as I pointed out in the first message, they can't REALLY name the 10 commandments, either.
 
So should we put the 10 Commandments to a catchy tune and run them in prime time?

ETA: I know the Preamble to the Constitution but I have to sing it.
 
I learnt the Ten Commandments when at Catholic primary school, but I can only recall them all now after reading "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchins. BTW, I do recall like it was yesterday going up to the nun who was teaching us and asking what adultry was. She looked through me like I wasn't there. I would have been no more than seven.
 
Alareth said:
So should we put the 10 Commandments to a catchy tune and run them in prime time?

ETA: I know the Preamble to the Constitution but I have to sing it.
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If you know it from the Schoolhouse Rock video on the Preamble, there's a small mistake. It's "We the People of the United States, in Order to form...".

lionking said:
I learnt the Ten Commandments when at Catholic primary school, but I can only recall them all now after reading "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchins. BTW, I do recall like it was yesterday going up to the nun who was teaching us and asking what adultry was. She looked through me like I wasn't there. I would have been no more than seven.
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When you're an infant, you're in infancy. So, when you're an adult...
 
greymatters said:
A recent study shows that more people can name the ingredients of a Big Mac than can name the 10 commandments (Yay! There's hope for this country yet!).
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Call me a cynic, but I find no hope in this amusing little tidbit. In fact, after an initial chuckle, even the amusement wears off and I am left with a deep sense of despair, stemming from the fact that I know many of these same people who cannot name the Ten Commandments believe they should be firmly tacked onto the walls of every schoolroom, courthouse, and restroom stall in the nation. They don't even know their dogma, but they know it's right for me.
 
See, us wee kiddies thought adultry was a type of stealing, but had trouble with the "Thou Shalt Not Steal" one. But to be fair to the nun, I can't for the life imagine how she could possibly explain the concept. Then again it could have gone along the lines of "see it's like when Father McGuire decided that Sister Mary.........." Perhaps I shouldn't go there at all.
 
Marquis de Carabas said:
Call me a cynic, but I find no hope in this amusing little tidbit. In fact, after an initial chuckle, even the amusement wears off and I am left with a deep sense of despair, stemming from the fact that I know many of these same people who cannot name the Ten Commandments believe they should be firmly tacked onto the walls of every schoolroom, courthouse, and restroom stall in the nation. They don't even know their dogma, but they know it's right for me.
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The politicians who support legislation to post the commandments in public can't name them either.

This is the best video clip in the history of video clips.
 
Alareth said:
So should we put the 10 Commandments to a catchy tune and run them in prime time?

ETA: I know the Preamble to the Constitution but I have to sing it.
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My kids have never heard the Big Mac jingle, but school, church and especially, Veggie Tales have taught them the 10 Cs.

Tokie
 
You wanna see something REALLY scary?

Most college students (several surveys) believe that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need," is from the US Constitution.

And nearly every liberal in America believes that if it isn't (it isn't) it SHOULD be.

Tokie
 
Tokenconservative said:
You wanna see something REALLY scary?

Most college students (several surveys) believe that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need," is from the US Constitution.

And nearly every liberal in America believes that if it isn't (it isn't) it SHOULD be.

Tokie
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Evidence?
 
First of all, aren't there fewer ingredients in the Big Mac jingle than ten? I mean, even if you count the patties as two things and the top and bottom of the bun as two things, there's still only nine.



Tokenconservative said:
You wanna see something REALLY scary?

Most college students (several surveys) believe that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need," is from the US Constitution.

And nearly every liberal in America believes that if it isn't (it isn't) it SHOULD be.
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You want to see something REALLY scary? Some people post completely off-topic statements just so they can go out of their way to ascribe traits to "liberals" without evidence or even an operational definition of the word.
 
Loss Leader said:
You want to see something REALLY scary? Some people post completely off-topic statements just so they can go out of their way to ascribe traits to "liberals" without evidence or even an operational definition of the word.
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Short attention span. Maybe we should call him Tokin' Conservative.
 
So which version of the 10 Cs can't they name? Any of them? A specific version?

If they were set to music, would people better know them? Does it really matter? Do I care? Do I want pie for breakfast again?
 
Loss Leader said:
First of all, aren't there fewer ingredients in the Big Mac jingle than ten? I mean, even if you count the patties as two things and the top and bottom of the bun as two things, there's still only nine.
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Holy shmoly! I just realized that a Big Mac has three buns, not two. That does make ten things. So, there you go.
 
Ysidro said:
So which version of the 10 Cs can't they name? Any of them? A specific version?
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The survey apparently made allowances for the differences between the Protestant, Catholic and Hebrew versions (same contents, different order).

I don't have access to the exact survey results, but here's the breakdown I've found:

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[B]Big Mac[/B]

[U]List Item[/U]                [U]% Remembered[/U]
Two-All Beef Patties          80
Lettuce                       76
Sesame Seed Bun               75
Special Sauce                 66
Pickles                       62
Cheese                        60

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[B]10 commandments[/B]

[U]List Item[/U]                [U]% Remembered[/U]
Honor Mom/Dad                 45
Don't Kill                    39  (inexact - listed as "fewer than 4 in 10")
Keep Sabbath Holy             34
No Other Gods                 29
 
I'm guessing most people would do very poorly remembering the list found in Exodus 34, even though it is clearly stated that these are the same as the words on the first tablets (Exodus 34:1), and this is the only list specifically referred to in any Bible passage as the 10 commandments (Exodus 34:28):

1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god).
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn.
4. All the first-born are mine.
5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.
10. Thou shalt not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

I think it would be fun to make a video to help people memorize these, just like the video posted in my first post in this thread.
 
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