Alternatives to the Ten Commandments
Several alternatives to the Ten Commandments have been promulgated by different persons and groups, which intended to improve on the lists of laws known as the Ten Commandments that appear in the Bible. Lists of these kinds exist in many different cultures and times. They are sometimes given names – for example, the Hindu Yamas. Examples. Bertrand Russell (1951). Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. He formulated these ten commandments: Anton LaVey (1967). Anton Lavey was an American author, musician, and occultist. He was the  founder of the Church of Satan and LaVeyan Satanism and published "The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth": Summum (1975). Summum is an informal gathering of people registered as a tax exempt organization in the state of Utah, U.S., in 1975. Summum contradicts the historical Biblical account of the Ten Commandments by claiming that, before returning with the Commandments, Moses descended from Mount Sinai with a first set of tablets inscribed with seven principles they call aphorisms. According to the group, the seven principles are: George Carlin (2001). George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and  author. In his twelfth HBO stand-up comedy special "Complaints and Grievances", Carlin reduces the Ten Commandments to three: Ten Offers of Evolutionary Humanism (2005). In his 2005 book "Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism" German philosopher Michael Schmidt-Salomon devised "The Ten Offers of Evolutionary Humanism". In short, they read as follows: Richard Dawkins (2006). 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: Christopher Hitchens (2010). Christopher Hitchens was an English American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. His new Ten Commandments are: Bayer and Figdor's Ten Non-Commandments (2014). As detailed in the book "Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Re-writing the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century" by Lex Bayer and the Stanford Humanist Chaplain John Figdor, it is devoted to the subject of creating a secular alternative to the Ten Commandments and encouraging readers to formulate  and discover their own list of beliefs. The Atheists' New Ten Commandments (2015). These are the ten winning beliefs of the Rethink Prize, a crowdsourcing competition to rethink the Ten Commandments. The contest drew more than 2,800 submissions from 18 countries and 27 U.S. states. Winners were selected by a panel of judges. Ten Indian Commandments (not dated). The Bird Clan of East Central Alabama has the Ten Native American Commandments.