"Texas State Rep. Files Bill to Let Teachers Post Ten Commandments in Classrooms"

[Terrywoodenpic]

It's an independent school district, so they don't have as many limitations.

I honestly don't care one way or the other.

I believe that all children should already know the Ten Commandments before ever going to school so there is no real need to post them up there.

Why should they already know them?
Are they even important to most people today?

How many people could actually recite them correctly?

 

[YeshuaRedeemed]

Freedom of religion, and speech are rights.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Freedom of religion, and speech are rights.

But not absolute and unlimited rights.

 

[Kenny]

In what God?Zeuss is a God, so is Horace, so is Buddha Brahaman what God?

You can call Him whatever you want ! So, why do people get upset?

 

[Kenny]

If only we could have the Ten Commandments next to the code of Hammurabi and Ur-Nammu. The idea that laws are an integral piece of society is important, but too often it feels as though Christians are just trying to pull a "gotcha."

The Supreme Court has many figures... not all Christian and Jewish

 

[Kenny]

Well, some people don't believe there's such a creature as god, and might not want their children taught that there is, and how he should be treated. And I think that's reason enough to keep it out of public schools.

And some people don't in NAMBLA, does that mean we should teach sex education?

Or, because some people don't believe we went to the moon, does that mean we didn't?

I think there is a God whether you believe it or not

 

[Kenny]

House Chamber

• "In God we trust.

Prayer Room

• "Annuit coeptis" (God has favored our undertakings)
  
• "Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust."
  — Psalm 16:1

Senate Chamber

• Over east doorway:
  "Annuit coeptis" (God has favored our undertakings)
  
• Over south entrance:
  "In God we trust"
  

@Skwim, do you need a safe space?

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

The Supreme Court has many figures... not all Christian and Jewish

Good for the Supreme Court. So why doesn't this legislator include "many figures"?

 

[Kenny]

Ever notice the people who bang on most about how inviolable and important the Constitution is are the first to ignore it when it becomes inconvenient to the pursuit of their biases?

no

 

[Kenny]

Good for the Supreme Court. So why doesn't this legislator include "many figures"?

Do you live in Texas? How do you know they don't already have?

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Do you live in Texas? How do you know they don't already have?

Um, because I'm working of trhe information in the OP? If he HAS included "many figures", how about you say so, rather than playing coy?

Or is the simple fact that he, of course, hasn't, and that's inconvenient to admit?

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

no

Shocking. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

 

[Kenny]

SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEEEEEEE!

They prayed in Congress... and mentioned.... God! Shhhhh!

"...In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive administration, it becomes the indispensable duty of these hitherto free and happy colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publicly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offenses against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of freedom, virtue, and posterity..."
– Congressional Prayer Proclamation
Journals of Congress, 4:208-209.

 

[Kenny]

Um, because I'm working of trhe information in the OP? If he HAS included "many figures", how about you say so, rather than playing coy?

Or is the simple fact that he, of course, hasn't, and that's inconvenient to admit?

Maybe because it is the only thing forbidden?

 

[Valjean]

Why should they already know them?
Are they even important to most people today?

How many people could actually recite them correctly?

Which "ten commandments?" Exodus? Deuteronomy? One of the English synopses or the original Hebrew wordings?

 

[Kenny]

OMG! OMG! OMG!

This happened in the first Congress?

THE NERVE OF THEM ALL!

 

[Revoltingest]

From a quote in the OP.....
“I think it’s a good list of disciplines that young people would find very meaningful to them.”
This is demonstrably false, since some of the Commandments wouldn't make any sense
to a non-Christian, & would therefore not be "very meaningful"....except perhaps to mean
that some elements in government still want to impose their religion upon the unwilling.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Maybe because it is the only thing forbidden?

Yeah, it's not, but thanks for playing.

 

[Kenny]

From a quote in the OP.....
“I think it’s a good list of disciplines that young people would find very meaningful to them.”
This is demonstrably false, since some of the Commandments wouldn't make any sense
to a non-Christian, & would therefore not be "very meaningful"....except perhaps to mean
that some elements in government still want to impose their religion upon the unwilling.

ABSOLUTELY! It makes one nervous about going to school... fear creeps in when you see the Ten Commandments, it causes sleep depravation and affects your reality and ability to listen to a teacher.

This, of course, is much better:

Indiana teen denied bail as funeral arranged for pregnant cheerleader he is accused of brutally killing

Now THAT makes it easier to study.

Hmmmm... Thou Shalt Not Murder... No... we should have that meaningless statement in front of children, it will upset them.

Makes one wonder, how did we ever live for the 200 years of US existence?

 

[Kenny]

Yeah, it's not, but thanks for playing.

Oh... but it is... Look at the uproar.

And I am having fun!