With all the talk of Lieberman's religiosity, it might be worthwhile to revisit the Judeo-Christian platform as summarized in the Ten Commandments. Remarkably enough, the current revisions were proleptically presented by the Victorian poet, Arthur Hugh Clough, in what we might now call a Gore-Text:
The Latest Decalogue
"Thou shalt have one God only; Who
Would be at the expense of two?
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency:
Swear not at all; for, for thy curse
Thine enemy is none the worse:
At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend:
Honour thy parents; that is, all
From whom advancement may befall:
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive:
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When 'tis so lucrative to cheat:
Bear not false witness; let the lie
Have time on its own wings to fly:
Thou shalt not covet, but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
"The sum of all is, thou shalt love,
If any body, God above:
At any rate shall never labour
More than thyself to love thy neighbour."
C. G. Estabrook