Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.
The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Landry, the time for gubernatorial action — to sign or veto the bill — has lapsed.
Opponents question the law’s constitutionality, warning that lawsuits are likely to follow. Proponents say the purpose of the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the law’s language, the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.
Well it’s about time that children learn not to boil a baby goat in the milk of its mother and to not, under any circumstances, put yeast in a blood sacrifice.
What? They aren’t talking about the only ten commandments in the Bible actually called the ten commandments?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 34&version=NIV
19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
Wow. What does that even mean?
What it says, the firstborn of every womb belongs to God and should be sacrificed to him, but you can trade a lamb if you want to keep the firstborn, like a coupon.
So hypothetically, you either sacrifice a lamb to God or kill your first born child - this mirrors nicely with Passover.
Love the coupon analogy
I don’t even know. I don’t even know why there would be yeast in a blood sacrifice.
I dunno but we have this dish in Sweden called blodpalt. Bread with blood. I guess you can’t sacrifice those.
I don’t know that the authors of the book of Exodus were considering Swedish food when they wrote it. But I guess no putting cow blood on your matzoh before burning it at the altar?
In the language of the law, the Ten Commandments are “foundational documents of our state and national government.”
Uh, no they fucking aren’t, lmao
I deserve to have my seven tenets displayed.
I would be seriously motivated to counterlegislate the posting of what Jesus replaced all of them with:
Golden rule: treat others [at minimum, if not better than] how you would want to be treated. And help your neighbor to upgrade their standards if that seems to be a bottleneck even still
Okay but what if they are masochists?
That’s what I’m saying about upgrading their standards. If you want to be treated and treat others like shit, the person with higher standards should be deferred to as the default de minima of social decency. Like, people should be invited and introduced to being treated with respect and dignity and be able to experience that first-hand with grace but also assertiveness.
And why that version in particular?
i guess that position makes all amendments null and void then? including the 2nd to the US constitution?
Can’t wait to see the
eightseven tenets of the Satanic Temple right up there next to themPlease donate to The Satanic Temple if you care about this topic and are able.
TST is not a super great org unfortunately. They do stuff for great headlines but apparently little in the way of effective advocacy. I’ve also heard that there are pretty bad issues with misogyny among the upper echelons. While it’s extremely long at 2hrs, Dead Domain’s video on the subject goes into great detail.
It’s really unfortunate, I wanted to believe they were fighting the good fight but I don’t know if I can in good conscience anymore
Why do I care about what a video game youtuber thinks?
Do yourself a favor and don’t.
I don’t know how this has become a seemingly valid method of argument for an altogether too-large segment of the internet. Make some contrarian comment and then post a stupidly long video by some random that they seem to think is valid and useful evidence.
No one is going to watch this shit. Anyone who has two hours to waste on some random dude’s opinions interspersed with commercials needs to reexamine their life priorities.
I linked it because I recall it having a lot of cogent points and being relevant, and because I don’t remember off the top of my head the specific allegations, I didn’t want to dig through a two hour video I’ve already seen at the exact moment of writing because I only had so much time and research to dedicate to a Lemmy comment. It’s valid to be annoyed by a long video linked as an argument, but my comment was a “too long didn’t watch” version of it… that actually left out some details like the founder also being a fucking eugenicist.
I also use an adblocker, and the vid has some opinions obviously but was mostly going over evidence, recordings, and related allegations.
You don’t have to watch it if you don’t want to. I linked it as a secondary source. While primary sources are preferable and it might have been a good idea to do the legwork myself, I wanted something posted quick to maybe make people think twice on the “donate to TST” call to action in the initial comment.
If the entirety of the video is summarized by the three whole sentences of context you wrote in your initial comment, it sounds even less worth a watch than I initially thought.
From what I can find in actual sources, there’s two founders, and I’m guessing your claim on the eugenics is about Greaves, who certainly sounds like an asshole if not explicitly a eugenicist, but weirdly it didn’t take a two-hour anything to read about it.
The rest of it seems to stem from something a former spokesperson wrote in a Medium article and a bunch of other asshole stunts by Greaves, who yes totally seems like an asshole. None of this took more than ten minutes of searching and reading, maybe thirty if you read slowly.
I get that you’re not the only person in the world that does this, but if you actually care to make people think about something even once, like you claim to, maybe make the one thing you link to more accessible than a two-hour slog by some random YouTuber that I’m sure is super well-known to you and all their other followers but has no recognizable credibility outside of that tiny niche.
… it’s not really an opinion piece? It’s mostly a breakdown of the church’s dubious history and leadership. I’m sure they also do video game stuff, but that feels like it has no bearing on the actual facts presented.
Thank you! I’ll edit the original
Somebody’s breaking the second commandment…
The jewish one, the catholic one or the protestant one?
I’m sure that will never get graffitied. I look forward to finding out how many times kids can work the word “fart” into them and have it still make sense.
The difference between ‘shalt’ and ‘shart’ may be as little as a few strokes of a sharpie…just saying.
TST lawsuit incoming I hope
They will be one of many, I expect.
Time to just Blame the Bible for the shit show we are in right now -.-.
Happy Pride. 🌈
I’m an anarchist that loathed doing the pledge of muh legance, as I don’t believe in God.
Bless our country my ass. Under God my ass.
“Fascists continue to fascist”
Maybe they should add an eleventh? “Though shalt not covet your cousin, or anyone more closely related, or children… and since you made me have to put this in writing you’re all going to hell.”
Which 10 commandments?
Yeah does the law specify which ones? Many christian sects have slightly different wording and ordering.
The actual 10 commandments:
11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a] 14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
17 “Do not make any idols.
18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
They lost me at “obey”
It’s wild that this list of obvious control mechanisms to empower the clergy ends with
“But seriously, don’t cook a goat in its mother’s milk. That’s just fucked up and cruel.”
I have to assume it was some weirdly specific ritual meal they were banning.
I mean who hasn’t been served a bad dish of incestuous goat soup?
title of your sex tape.
And even the KJV edits did not manage to paper over the fact that there are in fact 18 if you count Sky Daddy’s recitation/rant in Exodus after the whole golden calf incident.
- Ice cream is tasty, but don’t overdo it.
- Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
- Be nice.
- Like for real, stop being an asshole.
- Greed is for Ferengi, don’t overdo it.
- Dogs are great friends. Go pet one immediately.
- Be careful when petting a cat’s belly. It could be a trap.
- Be careful when your girl says ‘it’s fine’. It’s not. Buy chocolate.
- Eight commandments are enough, ten are a lot of effort
- But really, be nice.
The 10 that are left after Moses dropped the third tablet.
the first tablet(s). We don’t know what the original tablets said. He came down, saw the shitfuckery that was going on, smashed them, and went back up to get two new ones made for the golden cow worshiping jews who had gotten bored while he was up there.
It’s a reference to a scene in a Mel Brooks movie. ;)
“I bring you these fifteen-” *smash* “Ten! Ten commandments!”
Under appreciated comment right there
Well, it’s 10, so it can’t be the Jewish version. I’m guessing the Protestant version.
I’d just hang my classroom full of different religious and non-religious commandments.
The christian one will be there … somewhere.
Probably covered by the 10 commandments of Tacos:
spoiler
- Thou shall stuff to capacity, and then a little more
- Thou shall honor thy taco father and taco mother
- Thou shalt not skimp on the cheese, and lest it be fresco, thou shall let it melt
- Thou shalt not charge $6 for a taco
- Thou shalt not use crappy tortillas
- Thou shall be consistent with size
- Thou shalt not overcharge for avocado
- Thou shall stop referring to fusion tortilla wraps as tacos
- Thou shalt not overlook breakfast ingredients
- Thou shall have pride in your tacos, or not have tacos at all
unfortunately i think you would be absolutely fired
I’d rather be fired for not being a Christian than to be an actual Christian any day. Especially an American Christian.
CAN I GET AN AMEN
Ah, man!!
Amen! Hallelujah!
I was thinking frame them in a really bad frame that falls on its face all the time. If you have older students, just loudly state how much you would dislike it if the commandments were stolen or otherwise defaced and let nature do its work.
But I like yours.
