Well spotted - I don't think many people realize it at all, maybe my geeky friends of a certain age. Anyway, congratulations, you win an upvote for sure. Can't give you 42 cents but I did my best.
And yes, it's amazing that a full 40% of all commandments are about sucking up to Him exclusively (you missed "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"). It's almost as if the all powerful, all knowing Yahweh is just a proxy for a bunch of insecure impotent old men.
While I have no doubt the many of these old men are insecure as well as impotent. I think the fact that 40% of the commandments, in fact the first 4 in the list, are about 'sucking up' is more significant than the egos of the priests.
IMHO, religion is a money making enterprise and like any other enterprise it has its business model. Religion's business model is to convince everyone to pay 10% of their income for some supernatural reason. The exact rationalization is not important. The method employed to do this is to create rewards for paying up and playing along with the delusion and punishments for not paying up and for discrediting the delusion. While the coughing up of that 10% is the ultimate goal, the maintenance of the delusion is more important and therefore maintaining a ubiquitous reverence for the god is the most important goal of the religion.
In the end, it is much easier to pass the plate around and collect your 10% when all the sheep are playing along than it would be with a loud mouthed skeptic questioning the very existence of your supernatural, omnipotent, omnipresent pal. Hence, the priority given to 'sucking up' or to protecting the image of the god.
Sorry I was thinking more like "insecure about people joining other religions instead of theirs" and "impotent in their power to control others". And as you point out the 10C are a pretty effective way to address those problems.
I'm actually surprised that the 10 commandments didn't include "raise you children to be good Christians" but maybe they assumed that was a given that parents would do that and the "honour your parents" bit makes indoctrination a slam dunk. If the first rule of Abrahamic god club was "Don't talk about the ten commandments" it would never have caught on.
Meanwhile its very notable that tithing and organised religion are nowhere to be seen in the commandments (and for the most part in the entire Bible if I recall). Ergo just more sheep controlling BS to build temples and enrich the few controlling elite in ways a Jesus would turn in his tomb for.
I may not be religious or believe in any God, but I'm sure that if the Jesus of the Bible had a second coming for sure I would be pretty far down the list of people he was going to kick the ass off. There's a huge line of fakers, fraudsters and criminals ahead of me for that.
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