Pwnallthethings: Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

Yo dawg I heard you hate graven images so I made you a graven image of that time you said no graven images

An image of America's eagle patron god, no less (This is the Fraternal Order of Eagles' 1950s poster of the Commandments, that Louisiana law's version is apparently from)

Which was created for a DeMille movie.

Points to the Andrew Lawrence post.

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all i know is those folks better not be wearing blended fabric

no eating owls, either

Someone eats owls? Who? Who?

It's gotta be the ones about wearing mixed fabrics and eating shellfish, right?

Funny thing how it’s never about helping others, never about turning the other cheek, never about forgiveness, generosity, compassion, humility, integrity, etc.

It's about nationalist power and oppression.

Always.

What kills me is how obviously insincere and blasphemous this entire cabal is, including all these so-called "Christian" leaders. This is all about power, that's the entire game. And they all fucking know it.

Where's the Church in all of this? Fucking nowhere. Christians should do something to rid their churches of these extremists? No siree, how dare you - those hands are clean.

This is what pisses me off the most. The meekness of actual Christian churches sitting idly by while their faith is corrupted for power and monetary gain.

The ones that Jesus declared obsolete?

I’m not even religious but c’mon man, does “not one jot or tittle” mean nothing to you?

Ah, in first century Eastern Mediterranean, you'd belong to the 'Matthew' denomination, not 'Paul' or 'John'.

Matthew was my favorite Beatle.

No way! It's all about Donatello

Riiiighhhtt - if Jesus was about anything he was about fucking over the poor and downtrodden- and give the fruits off all mankind’s labors to the richest of the rich, while poisoning nearly everything for more to those people. You do know you’re going to be a serf under the oligarchs don’t you?

Jesus reformed the law. From 10 commandments to 2. 1. Love the lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength. 2. Love you're neighbor as yourself. If you do those 2 things how could you ever violate the 10? It's pretty clever. Kudos to which ever scribe wrote that bit.

Scalia summed it up in the Van Orden oral arguments: no religion, just Christendom vibes www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/transcr...

when he goes from "it's a symbol that government derives its authority from God" to "it's an appropriate thing to have on state grounds" I feel like Man Ray when Patrick says "it's not my wallet"

tbf "no establishment of religion just means we don't discriminate between Christian denominations" is more of an honest originalist argument than anything to do with the second amendment

The respondent’s argument (and majority decision) is totally dishonest about it though and keeps pretending nobody would regard the inscribed text of the commandments as religious It’s obviously a symbol of Christian hegemony! It couldn’t be clearer!

(The above excerpt was the respondent’s answer to Stevens asking why all their examples of extant monuments are symbolic displays with no text inscribed Also, the respondents keep pointing to *their own erected displays* as examples of extant displays)

The sculpture of the tablets isn't graven enough for this mook--he wants statues of the prophet and the deity too. I'd try to take these people more seriously if they weren't idol worshipers consistently breaking the most interesting commandment in the set.

It’s confusing (my excerpt cuts off the context); the lawyer is responding to Stevens’ question about that extant examples of Ten Commandments on public property don’t have text, just symbolic representations (like tablets) and this guy’s answer is bad-faith spin www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/transcr...

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For American men of a certain age, this is always how we see arguments about the Ten Commandments:

Let’s put up statues of Shiva, Buddha, or Cthulhu if the content of the symbols doesn’t matter

Ironically the U.S. Supreme Court building itself has a frieze depicting the Prophet Mohammed (among other law givers of posterity), which they refuse to take down despite religious objections from offended Sunni Muslims www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/natio...

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It's funny how he used the exact same arguments I would use to come to the exact opposite conclusion.

Ah. Religion. The great oppressor of the people. The great separator of nations. The great bringer of wars.

A surprising thing about the Bible is that the commandments Moses chisels on stone tablets are not “The Ten Commandments” but a different set of commandments that are like: • Observe Passover • Don’t marry Hittites • Don’t cook young goats in goat’s milk. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Exodus 34 (ESV)www.biblegateway.com Moses Makes New Tablets - The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words

I have angered so very many people in the past by pointing out Exodus 34. The main arguments I have gotten are essentially "well, but... oh, just shut up".

Throw Matthew 23 in their face, Seven Woes of Jesus

"The Seven Woes" sounds like an unfinished Dario Argento movie.

The requirement to break the necks of Donets really goes unfollowed these days.

The state is going to shit themselves when they learn about Acts 2:44-45. But that's one of the parts American Christians pretends never existed.

Christians, choose your fighter!

Unaware that intelligent voters can love and respect their religion and the Constitution concurrently, Louisiana Rep. Gov. Jeff Landry drops a huge dung muffin, mounts his dinosaur, and trots off into the sunset.

Oh. So the things Jesus actually said? Absofuckinglutely not.

Can they mandate to put Ezekiel 23:20 on all public buildings? biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-2...

Ezekiel 23:20 - The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibahbiblehub.com and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.