Ten Commandments in Catholic theology Jesus into two "Great Commandments" that teach "love of God" and "love of neighbor", they instruct individuals on their relationships with both. The first three commandments demand respect for God's name, observation of the Lord's Day and prohibit the worship of other gods. The others deal with the relationships between individuals, such as that between parent and child; they include prohibitions against lying, stealing, murdering, adultery and covetousness. The Old Testament refers to ten individual commandments, even though there are more than ten imperative sentences in the two relevant texts: Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. The Old Testament does not
Alternatives to the Ten Commandments then added a third additional commandment. Christopher Hitchens was an English American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic and journalist. His new Ten Commandments are: Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments, cited by Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion": Dawkins uses these proposed commandments to make a larger point that "it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent person today would come up with". He then adds four more of his own devising: Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,