Paul Rosenberg: In this story you'll learn: 1) The law's text was promoted by Hollywood 2) It edits out blatantly un-American text 3) Gov Landrie's justification contained 3 lies 4) the bible's account of the 10 Commandments is self-contradictory... and MUCH more. Let's begin! 2/22

“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,” the lying, thieving, covetous adulterer Donald Trump trumpeted in all caps on his Twitter knock-off site. He loved it as branding & the Louisiana's version was a Cecil B. DeMille Hollywood production. 1/22 www.salon.com/2024/07/07/t...

Ten Commandments gone wild! The Christian right's latest toxic distractionwww.salon.com A tale of the evangelical right, the least religious president ever and Cecil B. DeMille's phony list from God

In this story you'll learn: 1) The law's text was promoted by Hollywood 2) It edits out blatantly un-American text 3) Gov Landrie's justification contained 3 lies 4) the bible's account of the 10 Commandments is self-contradictory... and MUCH more. Let's begin! 2/22

The law itself follows from the Project Blitz playbook (first described here in 2018: www.salon.com/2018/04/29/o...), one architect of which, pseudo-historian David Barton, claimed credit for helping to pass it: 3/22

Actual history tells a very different story, as @AndrewLSeidel explained in “The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American”: bookshop.org/a/2464/97814... (Salon author interview: www.salon.com/2019/05/18/d...) 4/22

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American (New in Paper) a book by Andrew L Seidel, Dan Barker, and Susan Jacobybookshop.org Was America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles th...

An example @AndrewLSeidel cites: “America's justice system demands proof of guilt to avoid punishing innocence, the Judaeo-Christian god intentionally harms innocents to punish the guilty.” 5/22

And God punishing the innocent comes right out of the 10 Commandments--a part that's been EXCISED in the Hollywood/Louisiana version because it's so at odds with American values: 6/22

If this were an intellectual debate, that'd be the end of it. But it’s politics, full of absurdities, with Trump as both a symptom and a super-spreader of the underlying moral abyss: 7/22

But Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's garden-variety lies--though headspinning in toto--are easier to unpack: 8/22

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