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.
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…