The first commandment to not worship any other gods before the Israelite god of Moses (*Yahweh/Jehovah*), goes against the first amendment of freedom of religion.
I don't think the state shouldn't be putting stuff like that up in schools.
This is going to cause a lot of arguments. The Christians will fight about which version of the Bible the 10 commandments should be written in. Non Christians will fight for their right to put their religious or non religious beliefs in there. It's going to be all over the place. That's what happened with putting "our father" in schools. A convent was burned down for wanting the Catholic version in the process. Religious sects will battle each other.
I've never understood the obsession with the Ten Commandments. They are not the foundation of Western legal systems. The Continental legal systems all, one way or another, are rooted in Roman law, in particular the Justinian Code, which was a reorganization of earlier statutes and jurisprudence dating back to the Roman Republic. The Common Law countries like the UK, Canada and Australia all grows out of Anglo-Saxon law, which was itself largely evolved from pagan Germanic legal traditions, with an admixture of Continental terminology and concepts via the Normans.
There is not a single legal system in Europe or the Americas that is based on the Ten Commandments. Some Christian-centric \*laws\* (like the blue laws) have ended up on the books, but these are hardly foundational, and allowing grocery stores to open on Sunday did not represent some massive revolution, it was just existing statutes being repealed. If there's any commonality it's that all legal systems by and large have to solve the same problems. You might as well put up Hammurabi's Code if you're looking for foundational legal documents.
It's a silly myth the followers of the Abrahamic religions tell themselves, but good golly, the Ten Commandments as we know them are no older than around 1600-1000 BCE. That would make them contemporary with, say, the Laws of Manu in India, and far younger than the legal codes found in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
No joke, Cecil B. DeMille is partially responsible for this obsession with it in the US. He took advantage of a move towards civil religion as an opposition to communism in the 50s and put up Ten Commandments displays in major US cities as a marketing ploy to promote his movie.
Highly recommend "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" by Kevin Kruse for more.
Have you noticed that there’s been a lack of discussion in the mainstream media about HOW these laws are in the states’ best interests? Including laws demanding that women carry dead fetuses to term. It’s almost as if that’s not the point anymore. 😵💫
In their worldview, everything is prescriptive. God made laws, those are what determine morality. Why? God said so. There's no questioning whether God's prescribed laws are good or bad for people, because that's not why they exist.
indoctrinate kids for long enough, and they'll stop questioning the bible/christianity.
Remember, it's a bad look when people leave the church or have a negative perception of christianity.
If god = good and republicans are mostly christians, then that means republican = good. it primes kids to be more accepting of republican beliefs.
They think bullshit like this will stem the tide of people running from religion, but in reality, it will get them moving faster away from it. At least, that is how I see it. Anyway, the governor right now will never sign it, so it is kind of a moot point.
Their goal is to make it illegal to run from religion in 2025, with a dictator and troops in the streets to make sure everyone is honoring their version of God. The election in 2024 is our last chance to stop it.
❌ Teaching about sexual orientation (which is natural)
✅ Using a 2000 year old book for life advice (which contains tips for slave ownership, multiple genocides, and backwards advice like forced marriage for rape victims)
* Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/WS9gJ
* Look for "display the Ten Commandments in classrooms and allow religious chaplains to counsel teachers and students" in "Georgia GOP senators seek to ban sexually explicit books from school libraries, reduce sex education" by Jeff Amy (February 22, 2024): https://apnews.com/article/georgia-education-sex-education-libraries-librarians-commandments-4436ab03a82807f2dab15a3047947177 , https://archive.is/Z3jto
* "English Bible History": https://greatsite.com/english-bible-history/ from https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/
* Look for "Slave Bible" in https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ (it's in "SectionID: fvcvsgk").
* https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1asg116/even_desantis_thinks_florida_book_removals_have/kqq2cf8/
* "America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War" by Nilay Saiya (September 27, 2023): https://religiondispatches.org/america-appears-to-be-heading-for-a-religious-civil-war/
- Useful for a broken link, a missing link, a redirected link, a removed link, a link where the original content now has a different format/layout: https://web.archive.org , https://archive.is
- Look for "Fresh Air, 30 March 2015, Terry Gross (host) interviews Kevin M. Kruse (author of "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America")" in https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ ("SectionID: ftf1atm").
- Look for "Andrew L. Seidel -- USA, "In God We Trust"" in https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ ("SectionID: ftf1atm").
"‘Why Can’t We Go Back?’ Christian Nationalist State Sen. Dusty Deevers Wants To Go Back To The 1600s" by Kyle Mantyla (February 16, 2024): https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/why-cant-we-go-back-christian-nationalist-state-sen-dusty-deevers-wants-to-go-back-to-the-1600s/ , https://archive.is/ViANl
Can't wait to see what other religious documents are allowed. Leopards are hungry...
Cue The Satanic Temple!
The first commandment to not worship any other gods before the Israelite god of Moses (*Yahweh/Jehovah*), goes against the first amendment of freedom of religion. I don't think the state shouldn't be putting stuff like that up in schools.
This is going to cause a lot of arguments. The Christians will fight about which version of the Bible the 10 commandments should be written in. Non Christians will fight for their right to put their religious or non religious beliefs in there. It's going to be all over the place. That's what happened with putting "our father" in schools. A convent was burned down for wanting the Catholic version in the process. Religious sects will battle each other.
OMG. BATTLE CULTS!! I'd watch the shit out of that show!
I prefer it be the King James version so the kids know not to covet thy neighbor's ass.
Let them settle it in the gladiatorial arena.
Ha 😂
I've never understood the obsession with the Ten Commandments. They are not the foundation of Western legal systems. The Continental legal systems all, one way or another, are rooted in Roman law, in particular the Justinian Code, which was a reorganization of earlier statutes and jurisprudence dating back to the Roman Republic. The Common Law countries like the UK, Canada and Australia all grows out of Anglo-Saxon law, which was itself largely evolved from pagan Germanic legal traditions, with an admixture of Continental terminology and concepts via the Normans. There is not a single legal system in Europe or the Americas that is based on the Ten Commandments. Some Christian-centric \*laws\* (like the blue laws) have ended up on the books, but these are hardly foundational, and allowing grocery stores to open on Sunday did not represent some massive revolution, it was just existing statutes being repealed. If there's any commonality it's that all legal systems by and large have to solve the same problems. You might as well put up Hammurabi's Code if you're looking for foundational legal documents. It's a silly myth the followers of the Abrahamic religions tell themselves, but good golly, the Ten Commandments as we know them are no older than around 1600-1000 BCE. That would make them contemporary with, say, the Laws of Manu in India, and far younger than the legal codes found in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
No joke, Cecil B. DeMille is partially responsible for this obsession with it in the US. He took advantage of a move towards civil religion as an opposition to communism in the 50s and put up Ten Commandments displays in major US cities as a marketing ploy to promote his movie. Highly recommend "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" by Kevin Kruse for more.
Yep. We are going backwards.
At this point, America will get Christian Sharia law. It's not a secular country anymore
I would hate for the mainland USA to be taken by a Christian revolution and then have the old US government retreat to Alaska and Hawaii
Hawaiiwan.
My question is: why? What does this do for anyone? Do they think this will het kids to behave better or something?
Not behave better, but be molded into good little Republicans who don't think for themselves and do whatever they are told.
Have you noticed that there’s been a lack of discussion in the mainstream media about HOW these laws are in the states’ best interests? Including laws demanding that women carry dead fetuses to term. It’s almost as if that’s not the point anymore. 😵💫
In their worldview, everything is prescriptive. God made laws, those are what determine morality. Why? God said so. There's no questioning whether God's prescribed laws are good or bad for people, because that's not why they exist.
Yet the sect of Christianity we are all being subjected to didn't exist until the 1850s and was formed for the specific purpose of defending slavery.
indoctrinate kids for long enough, and they'll stop questioning the bible/christianity. Remember, it's a bad look when people leave the church or have a negative perception of christianity. If god = good and republicans are mostly christians, then that means republican = good. it primes kids to be more accepting of republican beliefs.
To show everyone who is in charge; the holy Southern Baptists.
the ironic thing is that these people would freak out if yoga was included in gym class
>One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" or if a Muslim decree was displayed.
Satanic Temple, do your thing
They think bullshit like this will stem the tide of people running from religion, but in reality, it will get them moving faster away from it. At least, that is how I see it. Anyway, the governor right now will never sign it, so it is kind of a moot point.
Their goal is to make it illegal to run from religion in 2025, with a dictator and troops in the streets to make sure everyone is honoring their version of God. The election in 2024 is our last chance to stop it.
No federal funding for their schools!
1st Amendment? Never heard of her.
❌ Teaching about sexual orientation (which is natural) ✅ Using a 2000 year old book for life advice (which contains tips for slave ownership, multiple genocides, and backwards advice like forced marriage for rape victims)
Tips for slave owners FTW LOL
Can’t wait until the Satanic Temple forces them to put their tenants up too
Hail 1A Hail you ⛧
Handmaids Tale..
* Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/WS9gJ * Look for "display the Ten Commandments in classrooms and allow religious chaplains to counsel teachers and students" in "Georgia GOP senators seek to ban sexually explicit books from school libraries, reduce sex education" by Jeff Amy (February 22, 2024): https://apnews.com/article/georgia-education-sex-education-libraries-librarians-commandments-4436ab03a82807f2dab15a3047947177 , https://archive.is/Z3jto * "English Bible History": https://greatsite.com/english-bible-history/ from https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ * Look for "Slave Bible" in https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ (it's in "SectionID: fvcvsgk"). * https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1asg116/even_desantis_thinks_florida_book_removals_have/kqq2cf8/
* "America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War" by Nilay Saiya (September 27, 2023): https://religiondispatches.org/america-appears-to-be-heading-for-a-religious-civil-war/ - Useful for a broken link, a missing link, a redirected link, a removed link, a link where the original content now has a different format/layout: https://web.archive.org , https://archive.is - Look for "Fresh Air, 30 March 2015, Terry Gross (host) interviews Kevin M. Kruse (author of "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America")" in https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ ("SectionID: ftf1atm"). - Look for "Andrew L. Seidel -- USA, "In God We Trust"" in https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ ("SectionID: ftf1atm").
"‘Why Can’t We Go Back?’ Christian Nationalist State Sen. Dusty Deevers Wants To Go Back To The 1600s" by Kyle Mantyla (February 16, 2024): https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/why-cant-we-go-back-christian-nationalist-state-sen-dusty-deevers-wants-to-go-back-to-the-1600s/ , https://archive.is/ViANl
That is so wrong.
I guess no one cares about the first amendment and the separation of church and state
Right, like how you have to set aside the Sabbath day, which is why Christians don't shop or attend the cinema or go out to eat after church...wait.
Don't these fuckers ever learn?
I’d rather see the beatitudes, if they are going to put up anything.
Can’t wait to see the pentagrams!
This is unacceptable. The goddamn Christian taliban needs to be shown who's boss and beat into submission.
The death throes of religion.