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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 166 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

“The purpose is not solely religious,” Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, told the Senate. Rather, it is the Ten Commandments' "historical significance, which is simply one of many documents that display the history of our country and foundation of our legal system.”

Only two of them are actually law: Thou shalt not murder and thou shalt not steal.

This is all about religion, and they're going to get away with it. We'd be better off if our legal codes were based on the seven tenets instead.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not even two, maybe one and a half as it depends a lot on who you are and whom you're stealing from. And you can even argue on murder too

[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 25 points 6 months ago

https://www.evilbible.com/evil-bible-home-page/murder-in-the-bible/

If I linked 1/3rd of the list of times the Bible condones murder it would be removed as spam.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hail Satan! or not... I'm not your boss, do whatever

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[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 138 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Religious people just love indoctrinating children. It's their whole thing. Get them while they're young and dumb and won't realize it's all just make believe bullshit.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 50 points 6 months ago

It makes me so angry because children are vulnerable and trusting; exploiting that to get them to believe in nonsense is evil.

[–] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

But when I try to indoctrinate children I just get burned at the stake

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[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 112 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Satanic Temple has entered the chat

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

Conferencing in the ACLU

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 109 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did I misunderstand what "separation of church and state" meant?

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Based on this ruling, I don't think I'm qualified.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 81 points 6 months ago (25 children)

violating the constitution by establishment of a religion

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Louisiana is a real conservative religious armpit.

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[–] InternetPerson@lemmings.world 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wtf is going on with you on the other side of the pond there?

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 65 points 6 months ago

Ignorance, propaganda and christofascism

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[–] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

No problem! We've got options!

-Fontsize = 3

-Hang them with text against wall

-Hang them on the ceiling

-Type them in Chinese/foreign language/braille

-Bright yellow text on white paper

-Printed with bad cartridge

-Font: wingdings

[–] suchwin@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Few years ago Texas required 'In God we Trust' signs to be displayed in classrooms. Schools weren't allowed to pay for them, so basically donated. They conveniently rejected the signs that had a rainbow on it, or the one written in Arabic.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120239381/texas-in-god-we-trust-arabic-signs-chaz-stevens

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 9 points 6 months ago

Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his great-asse

[–] Revonult@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Put it in the orgional Hebrew.

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Welp...I was gonna visit NOLA one more time before moving from Texas to Oregon this summer and leaving the Deep South once and for all. But, as a public school teacher, I have to say this is completely and utterly monkeyfucked, and Louisiana isn't getting a thin-ass dime from me.

[–] PigsInClover@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Samesies. I was going to stop in NOLA one last time and enjoy myself there while moving from Texas to Rhode Island this summer and leaving the Deep South once and for all.

Only I’m not a teacher. Good luck with your move! And working in a much better public education system. What Abbott has been doing to our schools is insane.

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[–] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

Post them in Hebrew, to be historically accurate.

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

At least six of those go against the core tenets of MAGA

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Name and shame the religious extremist who passed this and ban them from office

Ask them how they'd feel about requiring children to wear hijabs and all of the sudden they'll understand how everyone feels about their fascist laws lol

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 months ago

Nah, they'll just think Christians good, Muslim bad

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely sure of your translating skills, but I'm board with the results. Will you be doing the whole bible, or just the fun bits?

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[–] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

sherman we need you now more than ever.

i fucking hate the south

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I thought the old testament was supposed to be irrelevant/null and void after Jeebus and the new new testament.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But actually following Jesus' teaching would be way too progressive. As far as I remember he was basically a hippie, advocating for love, helping each other out and the poor, and strongly against hate and capitalism. And he didn't quite like the old traditions. So I think as a christian as of today you definitely need some counterbalance and some other book to point at to defend your conservatism, egoistcal behaviour and hate towards people who aren't 100% like yourself.

[–] Archelon@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that doesn’t let us demonize minorities so we can radicalize the population into voting against their own interests for the benefit of the oligarchyyyyyy

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To be fair Louisiana can't do much more than alternate between crying and sticking its head in the sand. Unfortunately it is the state where a whole lot of oil refineries and disgusting chemical plants have set up shop and that has just locked the state into a death spiral politically. Louisiana is absolutely FUCKED though from climate change and I think you have to see the batshit crazy behavior of people there from that context. Climate Change is going to demolish the lives of people who live in Louisiana (actually by the numbers it is going to somehow be FAR worse than Florida) and no matter how much denial you are in about Climate Change the fear will keep seeping into these people's psyches no matter what, like rising flood waters slipping between the cracks of buildings....

https://assets.firststreet.org/uploads/2020/06/first_street_foundation__first_national_flood_risk_assessment.pdf

It is useless to try to understand why the ideological contagions of religious fundamentalism and conservatism are so widespread in Louisiana outside the context of the state being a trashcan for the entire US oil and chemical industrial complex. This kind of suffering, ideological dissonance with basic aspects of reality and obsession with issues that are massive distractions from unfolding mass scale health catastrophes (like healthcare being an utterly failed system in the US or rent being completely unaffordable) are a fundamental requirement for petroleum and chemical companies to maintain their incredibly destructive existence, otherwise they would be shut down almost immediately by angry masses of citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_refining_in_the_United_States

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Let's see if the don't kill command deters school shootings.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

On the one hand, you have the anti-science, anti-reason, bible-thumping retrograde assholes.

On the other, you can bet that these same bible-thumping assholes break many of the very same ten commandments on a regular basis.

Finally, they could have posted something from the Gospels, from the lips of Jesus himself such as "love thy neighbor" and "turn the other cheek", but noooo...

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Does it say which ten commandments?

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

That's pretty smart The United States is a place for smart people

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Oh no. That was Kentucky. Notably they don't have the ten commandments in their classrooms for some weird reason. I guess we're going to find out if that SCOTUS ruling still applies.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 9 points 6 months ago

Goodbye secularism, goodbye constitution and whoever still likes what's been the original idea behind the foundation of the United States of America.

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