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.
Someone should pull a Martin Luther and nail the part of the constitution that separates church and state to the entrance of the biggest school in the state.
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
This state government is the worst one I’ve ever seen. Filled with morons. They believe in fairy tales and magic. There is no voice of reason in that state house.
I used to live in that state. So glad I left, no fucking idea what I was doing there in the first place. Even Texas is better.
I live an work in Scotland, as part of our job we’re voluntold to speak to young people considering a trades apprenticeship. Last month was my turn, one of the kids was going for his welding ticket. His game plan was to immediately move to Texas. I told him there’s loads of places you’d be less likely to be shot considering how lippy he is.
Lots of work in that area in Texas though, with Air Products having a lot of plants in TX and AZ as well as the refineries.
But if he’s trying to get chemical plant work and not just construction, make sure they know how to weld pipe - something like being able to do a 6G position MIG weld with a TIG root on pipe should be absolutely required for anyone thinking about plant work or pipe fabrication.
Scotland is oil country sadly. A lot of the money that comes into small communities is from people going off to work the rigs. So I’m positive that that’s something they’d be taught.
Religion terrifies me.
I used to be in one, and it was terrifying. I left.
I mean they could be used as a teaching tool… Not to follow fictional deities…
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This will kill religion faster than the priests
Get ready for the Baphomet statue…
That is so fucking evil.
Only thing historically significant about the 10 commandments is that the founding fathers didn’t want them in classrooms
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.
Every patriotic American in Louisiana has an obligation to go into schools and rip those things down.
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
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.
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.
Fuck religion. Specially Catholics and Christians are full of pedos and assholes.
Agreed 100%. But we must not forget that Muslims worship a pedophile as their profit. And devout jews still have rabbis suck the blood off the freshly circumcised baby as tradition dictates.
All of these abrahamic religions are absolute trash. And we can’t forget the recent offshoots Mormonism and scientology.
Remember folks, all of these assholes get massive amounts of undeserved tax breaks for no reason, and you dont.
EDIT: I didn’t mean to imply scientology is an offshoot of the abrahamic religions. It’s just a recent offshoots religion, that gets tax breaks like the rest. Poorly worded.
And devout jews still have rabbis suck the blood off the freshly circumcised baby as tradition dictates.
Jewish babies get an immediate bj to make up for being circumcised?
What
Wait. Is scientology related to the abrahamic religions?
No. I’m just saying we shouldn’t forget about them, due to the fact they get tax breaks just like the others.
I’d even argue mormonism is barely based on the abrahamics. Yeah they believe in Jesus stuff, but the whole Joseph Smith thing is just, too silly.
Mormonism is like acid-trip-based fanfiction for displaced Europeans to feel included in shit that may or may not have happened in the middle east.
Any one left not believing in science first that would like to believe in gods, have I got a religion for you!.. I haven’t figured out all the details yet but we are efficient. We’ll be using the last copy of pacbell’s phone book. Incredibly most people who perished that year actually had their names mysteriously listed in that oh so great book. And finally, but most importantly, we can set up automatic withdrawal for your monthly, tax deductable, donation. If you want to bring up saint and shit, we’re pretty much open to that. St. Steve for example helps us with programming bugs. Slowly he’s getting used to python miracles. St. Bob will get you neighbors with tools to borrow from. St. Jessica will make you popular in school. And Saint Alina of the mysterious vajayjay will indeed find you that man of your dreams. So long as your account is engaged, you got nothing to fear. We got no hell or Devil in our religion. Just normal shit like that stupid stop light that takes forever to change or the homeless guy who might use your money to buy drugs so you can’t decide if you should give him money or not.
i guess that position makes all amendments null and void then? including the 2nd to the US constitution?
