cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/10103853
Courthouse News reports: Arizona’s House Education Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow public school teachers and administrators to post and discuss the Ten Commandments in the classroom. State Senator Anthony Kern [photo], the bill’s sponsor, says the Ten Commandments shaped the country’s heritage. “Our history is the Ten Commandments,” the Republican from Glendale …
If I was a teacher in AZ I would lead in with how the story of moses was stolen from the neo-assyrian 7th century BC origin story of Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the great who is said to have been the king of the first empire in the world when he started invading and conquering Sumerian city states in the 23rd and 24th century BC.
Or how the very first commandment (“You shall have no other gods before me”) points at the early Henotheism in Judasim (“we accept that other gods exist, but this one god is our main one”). It became monotheist (“our god is the only one that exists”) with Zoroastrian influence from Persia during the second temple period.
So many directions to go with actual history.
And this is why I praise Jesus for The Satanic Temple.
“Little Jimothy, what did you learn at school today?”
‘Well this week we’ve been learning about the ten commandments and today we did the satanic ones - you know my friend Sam who is a boy even though he wasn’t born one? It turns out Satan says he’s cool being himself.’
Did they ever read the ten comandments? I’m not religious myself vut I think one of them says something “you shall not lie”. Maybe Republicsns should start with actually abiding to it first…
Come on now it was those damn democrats who did all the stealing they stole the election, they still all the documents and they stole my wife and kids from me and forced them to move out of state and now I’m on the no fly list because of those damn lazy stealing democrats that control everything and made my wife divorce me and take full custody so that’s why I tried to take my country back at the insurrection protest at the Capitol building for my boy Donnie… I love you Donald Trump…
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Thou shall not kill
… makes you wonder about a few things in American culture …
- gun ownership, which causes deaths by people in the thousands every year (intentional and accidental and self inflicted), basically most personal firearms are meant for one thing … to kill people.
- military industrial complex which is the vehicle and cause of mass human death around the world
- death penalty, if your Bible says do not kill, why do you have laws that say you should kill
Technically, as I understand it, that is a mistranslation. It should be “Thou shalt not commit murder”. Executions and killing in war are perfectly okay with the god of the Bible. It’s only *illegal *killing that you should refrain from. In fact, there are numerous places in the Bible where the readers are told to kill people in god’s name. So you can get right out there and start killing men, women, and babies with no worry that you’ll go to hell for it.
So when you pay for sex and also make her sign an NDA is it not “adultery” anymore?
So, it gets challenged, found as unconstitutional, is struck down, and gives the GOP another “I’m the victim” talking point.
Seven tenets as well, right?
