Gotta love Wikipedia. Look at the article entitled death growl. You’ll notice that the death growl is frequently employed in a genre of music known as goregrind. What is goregrind you ask? Perhaps you know it by its other moniker, grindgore. If you read its article, you’ll discover that it is a subgenre of grindcore, which in turn is an evolution of crust punk, which itself is an extreme evolution of anarcho-punk, which in turn is a faction of the larger punk subculture. Which leads to the question of the day, Who keeps track of all this anyhow?

And, how many commandments are there anyhow?

Check out this chart on how many commandments there are according to whom. Apparently everyone agrees there are ten, but they have a hard time agreeing which is which. Jews, Catholics and Lutherans combine the ones about making idols and having other Gods. To make ten the Catholics and Lutherans divide the commandment about coveting your neighbor’s house and wife into two commandments. No, I didn’t just make that up. Jews make ten by counting ‘I am the Lord your God’ at the beginning as a commandment. I thought that was pretty interesting. Protestants count the one about idoos and the one about no other gods as two. As a result, the one about coveting houses and wives need not be split and the statement that God is God at the beginning need not be construed as a commandment.

Anyhow, to the point at hand: is God required to obey the ten commandments? I say no. (more…)