SlacktivistFred: Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

So, even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments aren't precisely the same across traditions — the text is translated and even *numbered* differently. This law appears to mandate the KJV version — a Bible translation entire Christian traditions reject. apnews.com/article/loui...

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

Because Lutherans, Catholics, and Jews all number the biblical commandments differently, the Eagles' version sought a broader civil religious appeal by not numbering them. It's just a list of 11, or maybe 12, unnumbered, nearly-but-not-exactly biblical statements. Oh, and it was a movie promotion.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles didn't get much traction until Cecil B. DeMille decided to use their campaign to promote his movie. He funded & designed the monuments the Eagles pushed for public lands across the US. (Yul Brynner, Pharaoh himself, was sent to cut the ribbon for the first one.)

That is the source of the language now mandated by law in Louisiana. Meaning, also, that posting the biblical texts from Exodus or Deuteronomy, in translation or in Hebrew, would violate the law. It FORBIDS the biblical text. Only the DeMille-approved Fraternal Order of Eagles text is permitted.

Suppose I should include this: www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

Louisiana will post the Twelve Commandments in schoolswww.patheos.com The 12 commandments mandated for Louisiana schools are not from the Bible. They're from a 1950s promotional campaign by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

hell of an article!

So sharing this far and wide. LOL They really aren't too bright. Right up there with the pledge of allegiance created to sell flags.

The Pledge-Written by Francis Bellamy, a Socialist Preacher and Ad-man who believed in free public education. 🤔 www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pled...

How the Pledge of Allegiance Went From PR Gimmick to Patriotic Vowwww.smithsonianmag.com Francis Bellamy had no idea how famous, and controversial, his quick ditty would become

What. The hell.

um ackshully your story about the commandments being wrong isn't in the bible so i don't have believe it

lol

ugh, Yul

The 10 commandments being a movie promotion might be the most American possible thing.

This is the movie they are promoting: Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy @anelsona.bsky.social

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one knows the the Ten Commandments since they were told to Moses by God, written on those stone tablets that Moses immediately destroyed in a fit of rage after seeing his people worshipping a golden calf. What we think of the "Ten Commandments" were never divine.

God then told Moses to “Hew thee two tablets of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tablets the words that were in the first tablets, which thou brakest.” So the same words were rewritten on new tablets, which were saved.

“Thee” and “unto” and “brakest” - sounds like a few-centuries old English translation of ancient Hebrew, we can do better than KJV.

yes but they feel like a summary, which is handy for people because the full bible has too many words

This is turning into a Mel Brooks movie

What could be more American than that, I ask you.

Thou shalt abide.

Fucking Henley

Really pissed him off when the 11th commandment was “Take it Easy” and Frey & Jackson Browne got the credit.

“Don Henley must Die!” Rest in peace, Mojo Nixon.

I do not have a peaceful, easy feeling about this.

Oh, even better. Let them fight! bsky.app/profile/amdi...

LA isn't the first. SCOTUS ruled against this when KY mandated it decades ago. But to be honest I wouldn't be mad if the legal community just stays out of it and lets the various flavors of evangelicals destroy each other over which version(s) get displayed.

Euro-style circa 1800th Century

Is it bad that my first thought upon hearing this news was to wonder what friend of a local pol owns the company that has the exclusive state contract to print and frame all these copies? 0_o

Nah, that is exactly how this shit works down here. There's been a deadlock on food vending for 20 years because the exclusive contract belonged to a family who got too busy being politicians with their hot dog money to run a food cart monopoly.

*food vending in the French Quarter, sorry, I rewrote this too many times.

lol, no worries, I understood. And yes, my TN isn't all the diff from your LA in the grift potential dept, methinks.

I realize these are the wrong Eagles, but now I've got this revised lyric stuck in my head: "No commandments; love will keep us alive"

Paul Is Dead meets Paul the Disciple

> Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy Maybe that's so the GOP SCOTUS justices can ultimately say with a straight face that "The text is not a quote directly from the Bible therefore..." in their homily-laden, 6-3 winning ruling.

We go from "this isn't truly a machine gun" to "this isn't truly the Bible." Yeah, my thought as I read this really interesting history was "DON'T GIVE EM ANY IDEAS."

I can imagine the GOP justices saying in private: libraries & public transportation aren't in the bible. In public they say also not in the constitution. So any federal funding of ANYTHING is in question. If they want to they go originalism - trains were created ~40 years after the constitution.

State GOP justices and judges can then follow suit.

youtu.be/EmUpmeSCWis Are beltloops machineguns?

Bump firing M1 Garandyoutu.be This video was uploaded from an Android phone.

Louisiana, why don't you come to your senses You been adding commandments for so long now

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5th Commandment: Though shallt not hide thy lying eyes.

You can check out any time you like, but thought shalt never leave (unless you are an asylum seeker, in which case thou shalt leave immediately without due process).

This is the most American thing. Some private organization butchers some text (even gets the number wrong), it gets used to promote a movie, and then is used in the most rules lawyer-like way possible to argue a technicality.

Not all the commandments are in Exodus. There's a pip in Psalm 146 -- "Put not thy trust in princes"

When Jesus of Nazareth was asked which of the ones in Exodus was the most important, he was like “yeah, absolutely: the second major idea out of the Shema in Deuteronomy, and also this explanation for the rationale behind one of the rules in Leviticus; that all, together, is the singular thing.”

Aren’t all the prophets pretty much: “Medammit, you wanted a king and I gave you a king. Now look at the mess you and your kings have made for yourselves!”?

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