Louisiana orders every classroom to display Ten Commandments

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Anonymous wrote:It's dumb, performative crap for the Christian right who constantly need their heads patted and to be told they are important and special. Kids don't care and won't read the poster unless it's massive or the teacher forces reciting.

The most likely outcome is it will end up being allowed by the current SCOTUS (probably overturning some settled case law on some novel understanding of history) and other religions will be allowed to have posters but won't actually be able to.

Louisiana will continue to be a poor, ignorant state with bottom 10% stats in every QoL metric.

What religion are you, pp? Does your religion teach you to call your fellow man poor and ignorant? Does your religion teach you to disparage poor people or uneducated people? Does your religion teach you to help poor and uneducated people?

Are you able to stay on topic? Can you build a coherent argument based in reality and fact? I'm beginning to believe conservative and religious beliefs really are just a symptom of the weak-minded.

Yes.

The red states stay poor and undereducated by design. I don’t see having religious beliefs in opposition to being educated and believing that science is real but these dreadful “Christians” do. I believe in God and consider myself a cultural member of the religion in which I grew up, but I believe in the separation of church and state. This is abominable.

You missed the part where you should not judge other people. You are judging a bunch of people you don’t even know as dreadful. That’s close minded and wrong. You don’t know anyone is dreadful until you get to know them on a personal level.

So far: Louisiana is a poor, ignorant state.
Other Christians (the ones who don’t think like meeeeeee) are dreadful.

What a bunch of sweethearts posting here. Real role models for children.

Don't pretend you have any moral high ground here whatsoever.

Whatever "religion" it is that you and your Louisiana Republicans are certainly teaches them to disparage the poor, to disparage anyone who disagrees with them, to disrespect their religion if they are not Christian, to disrespect them if they are atheist, to disparage them if they come from another land, it teaches them to be greedy, selfish, and short-sighted. It teaches them to NOT follow Christ's teachings about feeding the poor, tending to the sick, the elderly and the infirm, offering refuge and shelter to those who need it.

If you don't understand that or recognize that about today's GOP, then you'd better take some time to step back and do some deep soul searching because you are completely blind.

Christianity doesn’t teach people to disparage the poor or uneducated. It doesn’t teach Christians to be greedy or to hate people who are different than they are. Christianity doesn’t teach people to be short sighted or disrespectful. That’s ridiculous. You are making up so many things that are really rude and terrible about Christianity, it’s hard to take you seriously.

Are you just now discovering that Republicans are hypocrites?

I understand you hate Christianity and republicans so that makes you extra angry, but really, you won’t convince anyone to adopt your outlook/opinions.

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Anonymous wrote:It's dumb, performative crap for the Christian right who constantly need their heads patted and to be told they are important and special. Kids don't care and won't read the poster unless it's massive or the teacher forces reciting.

The most likely outcome is it will end up being allowed by the current SCOTUS (probably overturning some settled case law on some novel understanding of history) and other religions will be allowed to have posters but won't actually be able to.

Louisiana will continue to be a poor, ignorant state with bottom 10% stats in every QoL metric.

What religion are you, pp? Does your religion teach you to call your fellow man poor and ignorant? Does your religion teach you to disparage poor people or uneducated people? Does your religion teach you to help poor and uneducated people?

Whatever religion it is that Republicans are certainly teaches them to disparage the poor, to disparage anyone who disagrees with them, to disrespect their religion if they are not Christian, to disrespect them if they are atheist, to disparage them if they come from another land, it teaches them to be greedy, selfish, and short-sighted. It teaches them to NOT follow Christ's teachings about feeding the poor, tending to the sick, the elderly and the infirm, offering refuge and shelter to those who need it.

Republican isn’t a religion dear.

Oh?

You are probably the only one who knows about that book. Normal people are too busy living their lives to care about whatever that thing is.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. All good morals.

I knew this post was coming...

It is immaterial what you think about the Ten Commandments. We do not live in a theocracy governed by one religion. If you want your kid to be surrounded by biblical teachings, then enroll him/her in a religious school.

So not killing people and not lying and not stealing are religious teachings?

It's all good. Print them and put them up everywhere! I can't believe they weren't put up sooner. I look forward to when the commandments appear in all schools and public buildings in my state. We need to show everyone who we are: a Christian nation.

Except the 1st Amendment clearly states that we are not a Christian nation. If you want a Christian nation, go create one. Only problem is that you'll actually have to act like a Christian is so-said nation.

Well you can teach your children the Ten Commandments are shameful and that they are free to do everything the Ten Commandments says not to do, with pride. Problem solved.

Where do you get that anyone is saying the Ten Commandments are shameful?

No one is saying that.

Actually someone said that and claimed the 10 commandments were written by a bunch of drunk guys. The moderator deleted the post but not the quote.

Someone feels very strongly that their children not be shamed into not murdering or lying or stealing.

You know darn well they are not talking about the secular laws (that also happen to be commandments) against murder, fraud, and theft. They are talking about worshipping a particular god, not having idols (some religions do and those are allowed to be practiced in the United States of America), and keeping holy a particular faith's sabbath, even though they may be of a faith with a different or no sabbath.

In any case, this is clearly unconstitutional and won't last.

That’s your opinion. I hope it lasts, because I work in a school and the students are being failed by their parents grievously. It’s truly sad.

How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?

Are you an educator? Please, if you are not, get your teaching degree and certification and help teach kids. There’s a massive teacher shortage. It would be great for people like you to enter the classroom and help educate kids.

DP... That TOTALLY didn't answer the question. Again, how exactly will slapping a poster of the Ten Commandments help students?

How does it hurt?

By making kids who believe in different religions or no religion feel like outsiders.

I would love to see the reactions from the MAGAs if a Hindu teacher put up the Yamas and Niyamas in her classroom. Or better, if a Muslim teacher posted some quotes from the Quran.

Because the 10 Commandments are only for Christians, non-Christian people will feel like outsiders because they believe murder, theft, lying, etc, should not be forbidden?

The substance of the commandments is not what is at issue here. It's the idea that your book of fairytales should not only be treated as fact, but that everyone must be governed by it, despite the fact that our country was founded on religious freedom. The Bible has been used to justify countless atrocities. It has no place in a public classroom aside from studying it as a curiosity of history and literature.

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text varies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

No secular educational institution teaches that the Bible is a book of fairy tales. They define it as wikipedia does above. You don’t have to believe the Bible, but you are being disrespectful, as many other people do believe the Bible. Show respect for the beliefs of others. Your beliefs are not made better or stronger because you disparage and mock the beliefs of other people.

I have no problem whatsoever with the Bible as a collection of instructions (which should only be applicable to those who voluntarily elect to follow that religion), stories, poetry, and (fictional) prophecies.

What most of us have a major problem with is the Bible being used as a book of laws to be imposed upon us, or it being foisted upon us as being a collection of scientific and historical facts, when it is absolutely not any of those things. And putting it into a public school begins to cross that line.

Not according to the Gov of LA. You should move there and sue him.

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Anonymous wrote:It's dumb, performative crap for the Christian right who constantly need their heads patted and to be told they are important and special. Kids don't care and won't read the poster unless it's massive or the teacher forces reciting.

The most likely outcome is it will end up being allowed by the current SCOTUS (probably overturning some settled case law on some novel understanding of history) and other religions will be allowed to have posters but won't actually be able to.

Louisiana will continue to be a poor, ignorant state with bottom 10% stats in every QoL metric.

What religion are you, pp? Does your religion teach you to call your fellow man poor and ignorant? Does your religion teach you to disparage poor people or uneducated people? Does your religion teach you to help poor and uneducated people?

Whatever religion it is that Republicans are certainly teaches them to disparage the poor, to disparage anyone who disagrees with them, to disrespect their religion if they are not Christian, to disrespect them if they are atheist, to disparage them if they come from another land, it teaches them to be greedy, selfish, and short-sighted. It teaches them to NOT follow Christ's teachings about feeding the poor, tending to the sick, the elderly and the infirm, offering refuge and shelter to those who need it.

Republican isn’t a religion dear.

Oh?

You are probably the only one who knows about that book. Normal people are too busy living their lives to care about whatever that thing is.

Ok the author knows about the book they wrote. Nobody else cares. You and Helgard are the ones who care.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. All good morals.

I knew this post was coming...

It is immaterial what you think about the Ten Commandments. We do not live in a theocracy governed by one religion. If you want your kid to be surrounded by biblical teachings, then enroll him/her in a religious school.

So not killing people and not lying and not stealing are religious teachings?

It's all good. Print them and put them up everywhere! I can't believe they weren't put up sooner. I look forward to when the commandments appear in all schools and public buildings in my state. We need to show everyone who we are: a Christian nation.

Except the 1st Amendment clearly states that we are not a Christian nation. If you want a Christian nation, go create one. Only problem is that you'll actually have to act like a Christian is so-said nation.

Well you can teach your children the Ten Commandments are shameful and that they are free to do everything the Ten Commandments says not to do, with pride. Problem solved.

Where do you get that anyone is saying the Ten Commandments are shameful?

No one is saying that.

Actually someone said that and claimed the 10 commandments were written by a bunch of drunk guys. The moderator deleted the post but not the quote.

Someone feels very strongly that their children not be shamed into not murdering or lying or stealing.

You know darn well they are not talking about the secular laws (that also happen to be commandments) against murder, fraud, and theft. They are talking about worshipping a particular god, not having idols (some religions do and those are allowed to be practiced in the United States of America), and keeping holy a particular faith's sabbath, even though they may be of a faith with a different or no sabbath.

In any case, this is clearly unconstitutional and won't last.

That’s your opinion. I hope it lasts, because I work in a school and the students are being failed by their parents grievously. It’s truly sad.

How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?

Are you an educator? Please, if you are not, get your teaching degree and certification and help teach kids. There’s a massive teacher shortage. It would be great for people like you to enter the classroom and help educate kids.

DP... That TOTALLY didn't answer the question. Again, how exactly will slapping a poster of the Ten Commandments help students?

How does it hurt?

By making kids who believe in different religions or no religion feel like outsiders.

I would love to see the reactions from the MAGAs if a Hindu teacher put up the Yamas and Niyamas in her classroom. Or better, if a Muslim teacher posted some quotes from the Quran.

Because the 10 Commandments are only for Christians, non-Christian people will feel like outsiders because they believe murder, theft, lying, etc, should not be forbidden?

The substance of the commandments is not what is at issue here. It's the idea that your book of fairytales should not only be treated as fact, but that everyone must be governed by it, despite the fact that our country was founded on religious freedom. The Bible has been used to justify countless atrocities. It has no place in a public classroom aside from studying it as a curiosity of history and literature.

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text varies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

No secular educational institution teaches that the Bible is a book of fairy tales. They define it as wikipedia does above. You don’t have to believe the Bible, but you are being disrespectful, as many other people do believe the Bible. Show respect for the beliefs of others. Your beliefs are not made better or stronger because you disparage and mock the beliefs of other people.

I have no problem whatsoever with the Bible as a collection of instructions (which should only be applicable to those who voluntarily elect to follow that religion), stories, poetry, and (fictional) prophecies.

What most of us have a major problem with is the Bible being used as a book of laws to be imposed upon us, or it being foisted upon us as being a collection of scientific and historical facts, when it is absolutely not any of those things. And putting it into a public school begins to cross that line.

DP. Which is why, in 1980, "the US Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky law requiring that the document be displayed in elementary and high schools. In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the requirement that the Ten Commandments be posted "had no secular legislative purpose" and was "plainly religious in nature" - noting that the commandments made references to worshipping God." (from last paragraph of article cited by the OP).

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I am an agnostic. We studied the Bible in English class in my public high school and I had no problem with this - it's one of the many works of literature we covered.

So I mean no disrespect to the Bible when I say there's no reason to force the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in every classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an agnostic. We studied the Bible in English class in my public high school and I had no problem with this - it's one of the many works of literature we covered.

So I mean no disrespect to the Bible when I say there's no reason to force the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in every classroom.

They passed a law.

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PP poster here - not a Christian or a follower of any religion so please spare me how I'm a bad Christian bit.

Fact - Louisiana is poor, highest poverty rate in the nation, fourth lowest median income

Fact - Louisianans are poorly educated - fourth lowest in educational attainment, ranked 47th in the nation for education

Slapping the poster on the wall does nothing to address the education shortfall and is all about picking a fight over religion to get votes. The legislators don't care, most likely, and know this is a cynical and meaningless waste of resources to help keep them in power.

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Anonymous wrote:It's dumb, performative crap for the Christian right who constantly need their heads patted and to be told they are important and special. Kids don't care and won't read the poster unless it's massive or the teacher forces reciting.

The most likely outcome is it will end up being allowed by the current SCOTUS (probably overturning some settled case law on some novel understanding of history) and other religions will be allowed to have posters but won't actually be able to.

Louisiana will continue to be a poor, ignorant state with bottom 10% stats in every QoL metric.

What religion are you, pp? Does your religion teach you to call your fellow man poor and ignorant? Does your religion teach you to disparage poor people or uneducated people? Does your religion teach you to help poor and uneducated people?

Are you able to stay on topic? Can you build a coherent argument based in reality and fact? I'm beginning to believe conservative and religious beliefs really are just a symptom of the weak-minded.

Yes.

The red states stay poor and undereducated by design. I don’t see having religious beliefs in opposition to being educated and believing that science is real but these dreadful “Christians” do. I believe in God and consider myself a cultural member of the religion in which I grew up, but I believe in the separation of church and state. This is abominable.

You missed the part where you should not judge other people. You are judging a bunch of people you don’t even know as dreadful. That’s close minded and wrong. You don’t know anyone is dreadful until you get to know them on a personal level.

So far: Louisiana is a poor, ignorant state.
Other Christians (the ones who don’t think like meeeeeee) are dreadful.

What a bunch of sweethearts posting here. Real role models for children.

Don't pretend you have any moral high ground here whatsoever.

Whatever "religion" it is that you and your Louisiana Republicans are certainly teaches them to disparage the poor, to disparage anyone who disagrees with them, to disrespect their religion if they are not Christian, to disrespect them if they are atheist, to disparage them if they come from another land, it teaches them to be greedy, selfish, and short-sighted. It teaches them to NOT follow Christ's teachings about feeding the poor, tending to the sick, the elderly and the infirm, offering refuge and shelter to those who need it.

If you don't understand that or recognize that about today's GOP, then you'd better take some time to step back and do some deep soul searching because you are completely blind.

Christianity doesn’t teach people to disparage the poor or uneducated. It doesn’t teach Christians to be greedy or to hate people who are different than they are. Christianity doesn’t teach people to be short sighted or disrespectful. That’s ridiculous. You are making up so many things that are really rude and terrible about Christianity, it’s hard to take you seriously.

You'd better go and notify every self-professed conservative Christian that Christianity doesn't teach those things, because they are DEFINITELY guilty of those things. They overwhelmingly vote for people who slash funding and support for the sick and the poor and the elderly. They overwhelmingly vote for people who want to cast out refugees. Many of them follow the "prosperity gospel" of greed as can be seen with the rise of megachurches like Kenneth Copeland, Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, John Hagee, Rick Warren and Joel Osteen. You can call it "rude" all you like but I am STATING ABSOLUTE FACTS. You're in delusional denial if you don't think any of this is real or happening - and you're kidding yourself if you don't that a large number of Americans like myself don't know this to be the case.

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Anonymous wrote:PP poster here - not a Christian or a follower of any religion so please spare me how I'm a bad Christian bit.

Fact - Louisiana is poor, highest poverty rate in the nation, fourth lowest median income

Fact - Louisianans are poorly educated - fourth lowest in educational attainment, ranked 47th in the nation for education

Slapping the poster on the wall does nothing to address the education shortfall and is all about picking a fight over religion to get votes. The legislators don't care, most likely, and know this is a cynical and meaningless waste of resources to help keep them in power.

Correct. It is a performative stunt on the part of LA Republican legislators and the governor. They need to knock off a few of these culture war rulings each year to keep their standing with voters.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. All good morals.

I knew this post was coming...

It is immaterial what you think about the Ten Commandments. We do not live in a theocracy governed by one religion. If you want your kid to be surrounded by biblical teachings, then enroll him/her in a religious school.

So not killing people and not lying and not stealing are religious teachings?

It's all good. Print them and put them up everywhere! I can't believe they weren't put up sooner. I look forward to when the commandments appear in all schools and public buildings in my state. We need to show everyone who we are: a Christian nation.

Except the 1st Amendment clearly states that we are not a Christian nation. If you want a Christian nation, go create one. Only problem is that you'll actually have to act like a Christian is so-said nation.

Well you can teach your children the Ten Commandments are shameful and that they are free to do everything the Ten Commandments says not to do, with pride. Problem solved.

Where do you get that anyone is saying the Ten Commandments are shameful?

No one is saying that.

Actually someone said that and claimed the 10 commandments were written by a bunch of drunk guys. The moderator deleted the post but not the quote.

Someone feels very strongly that their children not be shamed into not murdering or lying or stealing.

You know darn well they are not talking about the secular laws (that also happen to be commandments) against murder, fraud, and theft. They are talking about worshipping a particular god, not having idols (some religions do and those are allowed to be practiced in the United States of America), and keeping holy a particular faith's sabbath, even though they may be of a faith with a different or no sabbath.

In any case, this is clearly unconstitutional and won't last.

That’s your opinion. I hope it lasts, because I work in a school and the students are being failed by their parents grievously. It’s truly sad.

How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?

Are you an educator? Please, if you are not, get your teaching degree and certification and help teach kids. There’s a massive teacher shortage. It would be great for people like you to enter the classroom and help educate kids.

DP... That TOTALLY didn't answer the question. Again, how exactly will slapping a poster of the Ten Commandments help students?

How does it hurt?

By making kids who believe in different religions or no religion feel like outsiders.

I would love to see the reactions from the MAGAs if a Hindu teacher put up the Yamas and Niyamas in her classroom. Or better, if a Muslim teacher posted some quotes from the Quran.

Because the 10 Commandments are only for Christians, non-Christian people will feel like outsiders because they believe murder, theft, lying, etc, should not be forbidden?

The substance of the commandments is not what is at issue here. It's the idea that your book of fairytales should not only be treated as fact, but that everyone must be governed by it, despite the fact that our country was founded on religious freedom. The Bible has been used to justify countless atrocities. It has no place in a public classroom aside from studying it as a curiosity of history and literature.

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text varies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

No secular educational institution teaches that the Bible is a book of fairy tales. They define it as wikipedia does above. You don’t have to believe the Bible, but you are being disrespectful, as many other people do believe the Bible. Show respect for the beliefs of others. Your beliefs are not made better or stronger because you disparage and mock the beliefs of other people.

I have no problem whatsoever with the Bible as a collection of instructions (which should only be applicable to those who voluntarily elect to follow that religion), stories, poetry, and (fictional) prophecies.

What most of us have a major problem with is the Bible being used as a book of laws to be imposed upon us, or it being foisted upon us as being a collection of scientific and historical facts, when it is absolutely not any of those things. And putting it into a public school begins to cross that line.

Not according to the Gov of LA. You should move there and sue him.

Oh, don't worry dearie. I'm sure that lawsuit is already being filed as we speak.

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Anonymous wrote:It's dumb, performative crap for the Christian right who constantly need their heads patted and to be told they are important and special. Kids don't care and won't read the poster unless it's massive or the teacher forces reciting.

The most likely outcome is it will end up being allowed by the current SCOTUS (probably overturning some settled case law on some novel understanding of history) and other religions will be allowed to have posters but won't actually be able to.

Louisiana will continue to be a poor, ignorant state with bottom 10% stats in every QoL metric.

What religion are you, pp? Does your religion teach you to call your fellow man poor and ignorant? Does your religion teach you to disparage poor people or uneducated people? Does your religion teach you to help poor and uneducated people?

Are you able to stay on topic? Can you build a coherent argument based in reality and fact? I'm beginning to believe conservative and religious beliefs really are just a symptom of the weak-minded.

Yes.

The red states stay poor and undereducated by design. I don’t see having religious beliefs in opposition to being educated and believing that science is real but these dreadful “Christians” do. I believe in God and consider myself a cultural member of the religion in which I grew up, but I believe in the separation of church and state. This is abominable.

You missed the part where you should not judge other people. You are judging a bunch of people you don’t even know as dreadful. That’s close minded and wrong. You don’t know anyone is dreadful until you get to know them on a personal level.

So far: Louisiana is a poor, ignorant state.
Other Christians (the ones who don’t think like meeeeeee) are dreadful.

What a bunch of sweethearts posting here. Real role models for children.

Don't pretend you have any moral high ground here whatsoever.

Whatever "religion" it is that you and your Louisiana Republicans are certainly teaches them to disparage the poor, to disparage anyone who disagrees with them, to disrespect their religion if they are not Christian, to disrespect them if they are atheist, to disparage them if they come from another land, it teaches them to be greedy, selfish, and short-sighted. It teaches them to NOT follow Christ's teachings about feeding the poor, tending to the sick, the elderly and the infirm, offering refuge and shelter to those who need it.

If you don't understand that or recognize that about today's GOP, then you'd better take some time to step back and do some deep soul searching because you are completely blind.

Christianity doesn’t teach people to disparage the poor or uneducated. It doesn’t teach Christians to be greedy or to hate people who are different than they are. Christianity doesn’t teach people to be short sighted or disrespectful. That’s ridiculous. You are making up so many things that are really rude and terrible about Christianity, it’s hard to take you seriously.

You'd better go and notify every self-professed conservative Christian that Christianity doesn't teach those things, because they are DEFINITELY guilty of those things. They overwhelmingly vote for people who slash funding and support for the sick and the poor and the elderly. They overwhelmingly vote for people who want to cast out refugees. Many of them follow the "prosperity gospel" of greed as can be seen with the rise of megachurches like Kenneth Copeland, Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham, John Hagee, Rick Warren and Joel Osteen. You can call it "rude" all you like but I am STATING ABSOLUTE FACTS. You're in delusional denial if you don't think any of this is real or happening - and you're kidding yourself if you don't that a large number of Americans like myself don't know this to be the case.

You are not stating absolute facts. You are stating your opinion, which you are entitled to both believe and state. That does not make your opinion fact. If you think your opinion about religion is fact, then that’s a you problem.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. All good morals.

I knew this post was coming...

It is immaterial what you think about the Ten Commandments. We do not live in a theocracy governed by one religion. If you want your kid to be surrounded by biblical teachings, then enroll him/her in a religious school.

So not killing people and not lying and not stealing are religious teachings?

It's all good. Print them and put them up everywhere! I can't believe they weren't put up sooner. I look forward to when the commandments appear in all schools and public buildings in my state. We need to show everyone who we are: a Christian nation.

Except the 1st Amendment clearly states that we are not a Christian nation. If you want a Christian nation, go create one. Only problem is that you'll actually have to act like a Christian is so-said nation.

Well you can teach your children the Ten Commandments are shameful and that they are free to do everything the Ten Commandments says not to do, with pride. Problem solved.

Where do you get that anyone is saying the Ten Commandments are shameful?

No one is saying that.

Actually someone said that and claimed the 10 commandments were written by a bunch of drunk guys. The moderator deleted the post but not the quote.

Someone feels very strongly that their children not be shamed into not murdering or lying or stealing.

You know darn well they are not talking about the secular laws (that also happen to be commandments) against murder, fraud, and theft. They are talking about worshipping a particular god, not having idols (some religions do and those are allowed to be practiced in the United States of America), and keeping holy a particular faith's sabbath, even though they may be of a faith with a different or no sabbath.

In any case, this is clearly unconstitutional and won't last.

That’s your opinion. I hope it lasts, because I work in a school and the students are being failed by their parents grievously. It’s truly sad.

How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?

Are you an educator? Please, if you are not, get your teaching degree and certification and help teach kids. There’s a massive teacher shortage. It would be great for people like you to enter the classroom and help educate kids.

DP... That TOTALLY didn't answer the question. Again, how exactly will slapping a poster of the Ten Commandments help students?

How does it hurt?

By making kids who believe in different religions or no religion feel like outsiders.

I would love to see the reactions from the MAGAs if a Hindu teacher put up the Yamas and Niyamas in her classroom. Or better, if a Muslim teacher posted some quotes from the Quran.

Because the 10 Commandments are only for Christians, non-Christian people will feel like outsiders because they believe murder, theft, lying, etc, should not be forbidden?

Are you really this dumb. Many non-Christians don't believe that they should worship only one god. Or that idols are bad. Or that they should observe the sabbath.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. All good morals.

I knew this post was coming...

It is immaterial what you think about the Ten Commandments. We do not live in a theocracy governed by one religion. If you want your kid to be surrounded by biblical teachings, then enroll him/her in a religious school.

So not killing people and not lying and not stealing are religious teachings?

It's all good. Print them and put them up everywhere! I can't believe they weren't put up sooner. I look forward to when the commandments appear in all schools and public buildings in my state. We need to show everyone who we are: a Christian nation.

Except the 1st Amendment clearly states that we are not a Christian nation. If you want a Christian nation, go create one. Only problem is that you'll actually have to act like a Christian is so-said nation.

Well you can teach your children the Ten Commandments are shameful and that they are free to do everything the Ten Commandments says not to do, with pride. Problem solved.

Where do you get that anyone is saying the Ten Commandments are shameful?

No one is saying that.

Actually someone said that and claimed the 10 commandments were written by a bunch of drunk guys. The moderator deleted the post but not the quote.

Someone feels very strongly that their children not be shamed into not murdering or lying or stealing.

You know darn well they are not talking about the secular laws (that also happen to be commandments) against murder, fraud, and theft. They are talking about worshipping a particular god, not having idols (some religions do and those are allowed to be practiced in the United States of America), and keeping holy a particular faith's sabbath, even though they may be of a faith with a different or no sabbath.

In any case, this is clearly unconstitutional and won't last.

That’s your opinion. I hope it lasts, because I work in a school and the students are being failed by their parents grievously. It’s truly sad.

How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?

Are you an educator? Please, if you are not, get your teaching degree and certification and help teach kids. There’s a massive teacher shortage. It would be great for people like you to enter the classroom and help educate kids.

DP... That TOTALLY didn't answer the question. Again, how exactly will slapping a poster of the Ten Commandments help students?

How does it hurt?

By making kids who believe in different religions or no religion feel like outsiders.

I would love to see the reactions from the MAGAs if a Hindu teacher put up the Yamas and Niyamas in her classroom. Or better, if a Muslim teacher posted some quotes from the Quran.

Because the 10 Commandments are only for Christians, non-Christian people will feel like outsiders because they believe murder, theft, lying, etc, should not be forbidden?

Are you really this dumb. Many non-Christians don't believe that they should worship only one god. Or that idols are bad. Or that they should observe the sabbath.

Isn’t it ironic that the only posters in this thread calling people names like ignorant and dumb are the atheist/anti-theist posters? Who also claim Christianity teaches people to be mean and hate people who aren’t Christian? I don’t see any posts by Christians calling other posters rude names or insulting entire states.

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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments. All good morals.

I knew this post was coming...

It is immaterial what you think about the Ten Commandments. We do not live in a theocracy governed by one religion. If you want your kid to be surrounded by biblical teachings, then enroll him/her in a religious school.

So not killing people and not lying and not stealing are religious teachings?

It's all good. Print them and put them up everywhere! I can't believe they weren't put up sooner. I look forward to when the commandments appear in all schools and public buildings in my state. We need to show everyone who we are: a Christian nation.

Except the 1st Amendment clearly states that we are not a Christian nation. If you want a Christian nation, go create one. Only problem is that you'll actually have to act like a Christian is so-said nation.

Well you can teach your children the Ten Commandments are shameful and that they are free to do everything the Ten Commandments says not to do, with pride. Problem solved.

Where do you get that anyone is saying the Ten Commandments are shameful?

No one is saying that.

Actually someone said that and claimed the 10 commandments were written by a bunch of drunk guys. The moderator deleted the post but not the quote.

Someone feels very strongly that their children not be shamed into not murdering or lying or stealing.

You know darn well they are not talking about the secular laws (that also happen to be commandments) against murder, fraud, and theft. They are talking about worshipping a particular god, not having idols (some religions do and those are allowed to be practiced in the United States of America), and keeping holy a particular faith's sabbath, even though they may be of a faith with a different or no sabbath.

In any case, this is clearly unconstitutional and won't last.

That’s your opinion. I hope it lasts, because I work in a school and the students are being failed by their parents grievously. It’s truly sad.

How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?

Are you an educator? Please, if you are not, get your teaching degree and certification and help teach kids. There’s a massive teacher shortage. It would be great for people like you to enter the classroom and help educate kids.

DP... That TOTALLY didn't answer the question. Again, how exactly will slapping a poster of the Ten Commandments help students?

How does it hurt?

By making kids who believe in different religions or no religion feel like outsiders.

I would love to see the reactions from the MAGAs if a Hindu teacher put up the Yamas and Niyamas in her classroom. Or better, if a Muslim teacher posted some quotes from the Quran.

Because the 10 Commandments are only for Christians, non-Christian people will feel like outsiders because they believe murder, theft, lying, etc, should not be forbidden?

Are you really this dumb. Many non-Christians don't believe that they should worship only one god. Or that idols are bad. Or that they should observe the sabbath.

Isn’t it ironic that the only posters in this thread calling people names like ignorant and dumb are the atheist/anti-theist posters? Who also claim Christianity teaches people to be mean and hate people who aren’t Christian? I don’t see any posts by Christians calling other posters rude names or insulting entire states.

If you don't want to be called dumb, you should stop acting dumb.