A Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom can stand, the 17 active judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled — vacating an earlier preliminary injunction.
A Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom can stand, the 17 active judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled — vacating an earlier preliminary injunction.
As a atheist, do it. Post them. And let’s discuss who all is professing to follow them, but breaking them. And let’s discuss how and why the tenets of one religion get posted, but not any of the others. And let’s talk about separation of church and state and the dangers to both when they get in bed with each other.
And let’s talk about why lawmakers are so adamant about posting their religious doctrines on the school walls, but don’t lift a finger to stop mass shootings. You would think the “Thou shalt not commit murder” group would be all about regulating the boom boom murder sticks we have in abundance and doing everything they could to protect lives.
Honestly the 10 commandments are mostly just a list of how to not be a horrible person. Let them post it and then let’s all have some real HONEST conversations about all the things.
The first 4 are completely irrelevant to any kind of useful moral code. No other gods but me, no graven images, don’t take the name of Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh in vain, and keep the Sabbath?
And the very first is in direct violation with our separation of church and state, too. It declares no other gods can come before Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh, which is basically incoherent gibberish to anyone outside of one of the Abrahamic cults.
The fifth is maybe a decent general guideline, unless you have terrible parents and then it’s a trap.
The other five are probably useful guidelines for life: don’t murder, commit adultery, steal, bear false witness or covet. But people don’t really need to appeal to magical beings like Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh to arrive at useful constructs for trying to have a society.
^ Hey, if these are the kind of frank discussions that would happen as a result, I’d welcome it. I bet anything little snitches in classrooms will run home and tell daddy and mommy if teachers were to speak in such honest terms, though, because Zod forbid we don’t constantly walk on eggshells around delicate xtians. They feel that everyone else must constantly praise them and their interpretation of “the” bible or else they feel they are being violated. And Zod forbid little Johnny or Susie were to come up against people that don’t buy into mommy and daddy’s quaint version of things and are not silent about it…