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11 unusual facts about Ten Commandments


Agnes Ayres

Following the release of The Sheik, she went on to have major roles in many other films including The Affairs of Anatol (1921) starring Wallace Reid, Forbidden Fruit (1921), and Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1923).

Alex Battler

Battler also authored the 13 commandments of the roslyane, which he promotes as a replacement for the well-known Biblical commandments.

Bloomfield, New Mexico

In April 2007, Bloomfield attracted attention and some controversy when the city council voted unanimously to erect a stone monument of the Ten Commandments at the city hall.

Burrington, Herefordshire

The original retable behind the altar is of stone, consisting of three arches in which the Lord's Prayer and Decalogue are inscribed.

Cameley

Fragments from the 12th to the 17th century have been identified, the most impressive being the fine early-17th-century Ten Commandments over the chancel arch, framed in twining leaves with cherubs' faces peering out.

Jerry Pritikin

Pritikin also carried around "The Ten Cub-andments", a sign fashioned after the Ten Commandments.

Kyell Gold

A collection of ten erotic short stories based on the Ten Commandments, written by Gold and other writers.

Luther's Large Catechism

Luther's Large Catechism is divided into five parts: The Ten Commandments, The Apostles' Creed, The Lord's Prayer, Holy Baptism, and The Sacrament of the Eucharist.

The catechism, Luther wrote, should consist of instruction in the rule of conduct, which always accuses us because we fail to keep it (Ten Commandments), the rule of faith (Apostles' Creed), the rule of prayer (Lord's Prayer), and the sacraments (Baptism, Confession, and Communion).

Luther's Small Catechism

Luther's Small Catechism reviews the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, the Office of the Keys and Confession and the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Springer, New Mexico

Outside the courthouse museum is a tall monument to the Ten Commandments.


Compromise of Nobles

In August 1566, in the depressed industrial area around Steenvoorde a rash of attacks on Catholic church property started, in which religious statuary was destroyed by irate Calvinists, for whom those statues contravened the Second Commandment against graven images.

Doctrina Christiana

Following these are Articles of Faith, the Ten Commandments, Commandments of the Holy Church, Sacraments of the Holy Church, Seven Mortal Sins, Fourteen Works of Charity, and points on Confession and Catechism.

Nancy J. Duff

She has taught courses on the Decalogue, Biomedical ethics, human sexuality, liturgy and the Christian life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, James Cone, types of Christian ethics, and vocation in Christian tradition and contemporary life.

Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association

Members are frequently reminded to follow the laws of God, particularly the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) and the Christian Golden Rule (Luke 6:31); the laws of the government or society where they belong, and observe the highest morale by denouncing all forms of vices and by propagating virtues.

Ringgold, Georgia

The city also gained some notoriety for erecting a display that included the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and a third blank frame.

Sue Bell Cobb

Elected in 2006, she unseated Judge Drayton Nabers, Jr., a Republican who in 2003 had succeeded Justice Roy Moore after Moore had been removed from the bench regarding his role in the display of the Ten Commandments in the courthouse.

The Broken Code

Barney claims the Bro Code descended from Broses (with Bro Code Article I imprinted on a stone tablet shaped after the Ten Commandments) and was brought to America by Christopher Brolumbus.

The Daily Currant

Viral e-mails and Facebook posts claimed in 2013 that NASA's Curiosity rover had found gigantic stone tablets in a cave near Aeolis Mons that were marked with the Ten Commandments and the phrase "I Am Real".