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Federal judge delays posting of Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools
(www.theguardian.com)
Fuck your cult!
Separation of church and state, remember?
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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I agree with the sentiment. However the separation of church and state isn't really a legal standard. It comes from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson.
We have the 1A which prohibits the establishment of state religions (which this probably violates).
But if they choose to put a holy book from each religion in every school library that'd likely be upheld.
Tldr: the government can't pick favorites w/ religion but it doesn't have pretend they don't exist legally.
Want a christofashist dictatorship? Cause that’s how America gets one.
Freedom of religion means freedom FROM religion too.
My statement wasn't one of policy but of law. If it were up to me I'd take "in god we trust" off the dollar.
In the 1780s they were concerned with the government establishing a state religion that wasn't theirs. I would absolutely support more stringent regulation on the government favoring the broad concept of religion. But unfortunately I'm afraid as a matter of law the 1A isn't as robust on that matter as I think it aught to be.
Republicans love wasting the court’s time and taxpayer money on red herring bullshit
Louisiana Legislature: "You have to put the Ten Commandments in every classroom."
Louisiana Courts: "Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's entirely too close to spending public money on some form of education for our tastes."
Ten Commandments are not educational.
Separation of church and state is important.
They said it's "close to" education.
That's like saying Dianetics is close to education.
I'm not the one who said it.
This is an amazing conversation.
maybe if the Ten Commandments were hanging on the wall in the school that he was in, maybe he wouldn’t have taken a shot at the [former] president.
Ah, mental giants, these.
Especially funny since that former president is a much better example of someone who clearly doesn't do very well when it comes to following the ten commandments.
and considering Moses - the primary interlocutor of the commandments - also shot death rays from his fingertips and blew up an entire army beforehand
Dude just took "Thou shalt not commit adultery" seriously and was looking to bring the lord's justice to renowned heretic Donald Trump.
they absolutely hate critical thinking because it doesn't take much of it to make people stop and think "hey, all this religion stuff sounds like complete horseshit..."
which it is
"[...]maybe if the Ten Commandments were hanging on the wall in the school that he was in, maybe he wouldn’t have taken a shot at the [former] president."
I dunno, isn't one of the commandments about worshipping false idols? People have killed for Christianity before; what is different about it now that would discourage someone from removing a false idol? Nothing. Instead, the religious right promotes violence (just against the Other), so wouldn't be discouraging violence at all.
I almost hope their religion is real - if it is, they're going straight down when they die. It's a warming feeling. 😊