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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://news.cornellcollege.edu/2019/11/ask-expert-separation-church-state-mean-americas-public-schools-report/

Laws are only useful if successfully upheld in court. For some reason these never get challenged enough. Strange.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

sherman we need you now more than ever.

i fucking hate the south

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 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

[–] [email protected] 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Flip it around on them, and say that if the Ten Commandments are so important, why they support Trump, who regularly breaks them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because the Lord works in mysterious ways, or some other dumb shit excuse.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

America! Land of the free*!

*: Unless you meant freedom of religion. You better not! We'll sue/burn/shoot/jesus you if you do! Ultraconservative Christianity or death!

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[–] [email protected] 24 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (25 children)

violating the constitution by establishment of a religion

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Louisiana is a real conservative religious armpit.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Ignorance, propaganda and christofascism

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 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

[–] [email protected] 15 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Write the 10 commandments on a doll and hang it in the classroom 1800s style

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Put it in the orgional Hebrew.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does it say which ten commandments?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)
  1. Thou shalt not make a sandwich while at a stop light
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Satanic Temple has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Conferencing in the ACLU

[–] [email protected] 10 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

The woman who pushed for this said she didn't care about Atheists or Muslims.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (6 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Post them in Hebrew, to be historically accurate.

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