"Thou Shalt Not" - Except for...

I was watching QI just the other day and I heard an interesting little bit about the Ten Commandments. Being one to love hypocrisy, I thought I'd point out some lovely little hypocrisies from the Bible. While I could take my pick, I'm going to elaborate on the QI one. The piece from the show was as follows;

"Well, in the list of those commandments that were taken down from the mountain, there are actually fourteen in both Exodus and Deuteronomy, not ten, but in Exodus generally speaking there are 613 commandments, including the really important ones which should be, as you say, put in bold, like ‘You shall not suffer a witch to live' or ‘You shall not vex a stranger'…"

Now then. Where shall I start?

"Thou Shalt Not Kill" - It is made explicitly clear by the commandments that murder is a big no no. However in Exodus, as pointed out by QI, there is a commandment which states that "you shall not suffer a witch to live." So what do you have to do the uphold this commandment? Simple; kill her. Oh, but wait, thou shalt not kill. Hmmm, bit of a pickle. I'll let you figure that one out. Oh, and just to add, right after Moses received the commandments, he proceeded to have half of his tribe killed. Seriously Moses, what did God just get through telling you? Oh, and the crusades. And the Inquisition. And every other murder committed in the name of God. And in America, the states that have large Christian base tend to favour the death penalty. I don't think He's happy.

"Thou Shalt Not Make Any Graven Images" and "Thou Shalt Keep Holy the Sabbath" - I've put these together for one reason; I have been asked how I can worship God properly if I'm not in church. Well, I'll tell you. He's everywhere. So I do keep the Sabbath day holy because on Sundays I always send up a prayer. But there are some people who would say I'm doing it wrong because I'm not in a church. I say this to these people; the church is full of graven images. That doesn't bother me in the slightest. But to the ultra religious, I ask this; to successfully uphold the "Sabbath" commandment, do I have to go somewhere that is breaking the "graven images" commandment. Again I'll leave that with you to decide.