George Carlin has an interesting take on the Ten Commandments and how we really only need one or two of them.
I found the differences between the Roman Catholic version he knows and the King James version used by Mormons to be interesting, especially for something supposedly to be so important to all mankind.
For the curious, the relate to coveting being all-inclusive in one commandment and not separated into differences between coveting things and wives (which were property, anyway) and to including a ban on graven images and taking God's name in vain, which are things with which I guess you really don't see Roman Catholics overly concerning themselves. I mean, imagine Catholic churches without statues!
Anyway, Carlin was always amusing, and this bit is no exception.
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