The Ten Commandments Required
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@xenon said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@Jolly said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@xenon said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@Jolly said in The Ten Commandments Required:
Did they have them 100 years ago?
Hindi kids have had them for a few thousand years. My coworker has one on his desk.
And Texas is busy taking such items away?
I mean - what’s a 8 year old Hindu kid supposed to think when the sign at his school says that graven images are forbidden by god.
I’m definitely in support of things like having Christmas pageants and the like, don’t get me wrong.
But hanging up the rules of one religion in a government building seems odd. Can we hang up Buddhist, Islamic and Sikh teachings as well?
I don’t get the point of this.
It's extremely dumb. Learn about your religion in church. Yes as a Christian I believe I am right and others are wrong, but I can also see how inappropriate it is to pick one religion and display its artifacts in a classroom. Honestly I don't care other than it's absolutely the slipperiest of slopes as what prevents all N number of faiths and belief systems to display their stuff, and then blink and you'll have 5 breaks during the day for everyone to be quiet during Salah.
@89th said in The Ten Commandments Required:
It's extremely dumb. Learn about your religion in church. Yes as a Christian I believe I am right and others are wrong, but I can also see how inappropriate it is to pick one religion and display its artifacts in a classroom. Honestly I don't care other than it's absolutely the slipperiest of slopes as what prevents all N number of faiths and belief systems to display their stuff,
I agree. What if I am a devil worshipper? Should I be allowed to have something for my religion hanging in school?
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IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
Education is extremely important.
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The climate is worse, but the company and entertainment are better.
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@Horace said in The Ten Commandments Required:
IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
How do you figure? Satanism might be a lot funner if it turns out there’s no afterlife.
@xenon said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@Horace said in The Ten Commandments Required:
IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
How do you figure? Satanism might be a lot funner if it turns out there’s no afterlife.
I am referring to what I would prefer my neighbors to believe.
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@Horace said in The Ten Commandments Required:
IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
I think we should reserve judgment until all the information comes out.
@jon-nyc said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@Horace said in The Ten Commandments Required:
IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
I think we should reserve judgment until all the information comes out.
When it does, there's going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Okay, here is my favorite heaven and hell joke
A man dies and finds himself in Hell. The Devil meets him and tells him "This is the new, user friendly Hell. There are three doors. Each one is how you'll spend your eternity. You have an hour, so take your time and choose wisely."
He opened the first door, to find a firey pit. Men were chained to posts and eternally flogged by demons as the flames burned around them. He decided that would not be an acceptable choice.The second door revealed an icy slope. Men eternally pushed giant boulders up the side of an icy mountain, only to have a demon kick them back down when they reached the top, forcing them to repeat this for eternity. He closed the door behind him, deciding that this won't do either.
The third door revealed people standing up to their waist in a pit of sh*t, but they were drinking tea and smoking and joking. The demons stood around the sides of the pit looking bored.
When the Devil came back to ask him if he'd made up his mind, he replied "I'll take door number three!". The Devil told him "As you wish", and he went in to spend eternity there.
He grabbed a cup of tea and stepped into the pit looking for a smoke to bum and a person to talk to when the head demon cracked his whip and bellowed "All right, break's over, back on your heads!"
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@jon-nyc said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@Horace said in The Ten Commandments Required:
IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
I think we should reserve judgment until all the information comes out.
When it does, there's going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth...
@Jolly said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@jon-nyc said in The Ten Commandments Required:
@Horace said in The Ten Commandments Required:
IMO, Christianity is better than Satanism.
I think we should reserve judgment until all the information comes out.
When it does, there's going to be wailing and gnashing of teeth...
Normal behaviour for Baptists. They’ll feel right at home down at Old Belial’s Inn and Sulphur Dungeon Bierstube.
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A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
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and now this. LOL
A law requiring Texas public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments is poised to take effect Sept. 1 after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill Saturday.
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Texas can enforce a state law requiring public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
A majority of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Texas officials’ favor after hearing arguments over the law in January.
All 17 active judges on the court listened to the case — Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District — alongside a similar challenge in Louisiana, the first state to pass a Ten Commandments requirement for its public schools. The court cleared the way in February for Louisiana to fully implement its law.
The case is playing a central role in the national debate over whether the laws violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which prohibits governments from endorsing or promoting a particular religion. The decision could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Here’s what we know.
Background: The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 10 in 2025, with Gov. Greg Abbott signing it into law last June. It requires public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments, sized at least 16 by 20 inches, in a visible space on classroom walls.
After SB 10’s passage, 16 families represented by a coalition of civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, sued 11 school districts to block what lawyers called “catastrophically unconstitutional” legislation.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery agreed, blocking the law from taking effect in the districts named in the lawsuit: Alamo Heights, North East, Lackland, Northside, Austin, Lake Travis, Dripping Springs, Houston, Fort Bend, Cypress-Fairbanks and Plano.
Biery concluded the law improperly favors Christianity over other faiths and said it would likely interfere with families’ “exercise of their sincere religious or nonreligious beliefs in substantial ways.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the 5th Circuit Court to overturn Biery’s ruling and allow all 17 active judges on the court to hear both the Texas and Louisiana cases together.
A federal judge blocked Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law from taking effect in 2024, a decision unanimously upheld last year by a panel of three judges on the 5th Circuit Court. With all active judges on the court now hearing the cases, Texas and Louisiana officials hope for a more favorable ruling.
Twelve of the appeals court’s 17 active judges were appointed by Republican presidents. The court is considered one of the most conservative in the nation.
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