I’ve started reading Slate lately and found this piece from last week: The immorality of the Ten Commandments by Christopher Hitchens.
“… a condemnation of adultery (from which humans actually can refrain) and a prohibition upon covetousness (from which they cannot). To insist that people not annex their neighbor’s cattle or wife “or anything that is his” might be reasonable, even if it does place the wife in the same category as the cattle, and presumably to that extent diminishes the offense of adultery. But to demand “don’t even think about it” is absurd and totalitarian, and furthermore inhibiting to the Protestant spirit of entrepreneurship and competition. “
Now there’s something I’d never considered: not coveting thy neighbor’s goods being antithetical to capitalism.
Read the piece. It gets even better.