Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom.
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
I think it would be very instructive to focus especially on the ninth commandment.
That’s the commandment that forbids falls witness
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@Wyatt_H_Knott @VeroniqueB99 I don't mind the crutch aspect of it. If it gives someone a sense of purpose and community and leads them to a happy and productive life, that's great.
I just don't see religion doing that most of the time. More often it's used as a cudgel by insecure xenophobes who have no rational basis for asserting their domination of another group as being 'more good' than them. Which, is ironic, given that, on paper, most big religions say 'Don't be a jerk to strangers.'
@obscurestar "Ideally." "At Best."
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@VeroniqueB99 Edit cuz I can't fucking read. I now see the poster with the 7 tenants. Makes my little Satanist heart happy
@HappyCrow13 @VeroniqueB99 I was JUST about to comment on that one
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@radio_alelopatia @VeroniqueB99 can confirm... TX republicans have NO sense of humor
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@obscurestar Scientology
@VeroniqueB99 @obscurestar I mean, they're all cults. Scientology is just a new cult.
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
@VeroniqueB99 The best way to prevent fundamentalism of any variant is to teach people comparative religion. When people can see how the tenets of their "default" faith evolved from previous traditions, it is hard to be a "my book or go to hell" fanatic.
Speaking of hell, we can also see how the imagery of hell evolved from ancient Egypt through Dante. In an earlier variant, for example, the lake of fire was a moat to keep people in.
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@VeroniqueB99 @obscurestar I mean, they're all cults. Scientology is just a new cult.
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@Wyatt_H_Knott @VeroniqueB99 Religion poisons everything!
@lednaBM @Wyatt_H_Knott @VeroniqueB99
Religion is the flower that grows on the bush of culture. Religion can produce religious wars or ecumenical embrace. But it's faith, the evidence of things not seen, as St. Paul said.
Religion is a great justifier, a great excuse-maker, a liar, a braggart. Though religion has preached peace on earth, it has become the greatest engine of violence known to man.
I still believe. I still don't know why.
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
@VeroniqueB99 This is brilliant
… (I have to admit, just by this image alone, maybe we should all do this 
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@VeroniqueB99 This is brilliant
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
How many times have Texas and other ruby red states tried to implement a "show me your ten commandments" in public classroom schtick, and how many times has that been ruled blatantly unconstitutional?
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
@VeroniqueB99 Do they say what size the 10 commandments must be? Can it be set at 2 pt. type and mounted up near the ceiling?
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@lednaBM @Wyatt_H_Knott @VeroniqueB99
Religion is the flower that grows on the bush of culture. Religion can produce religious wars or ecumenical embrace. But it's faith, the evidence of things not seen, as St. Paul said.
Religion is a great justifier, a great excuse-maker, a liar, a braggart. Though religion has preached peace on earth, it has become the greatest engine of violence known to man.
I still believe. I still don't know why.
@tuban_muzuru @Wyatt_H_Knott @VeroniqueB99
Thanks, you just demonstrated the truth of my assertion that religion poisons everything...
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
@VeroniqueB99 looks right to me.
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
@VeroniqueB99 #Alt4You #AltText: A generic grey filing cabinet in a classroom. 11 signs/posters/pictures cover most of it. The top row is pics of 4 (Hindu?) dieties. Below that, a poster reading "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." Next to it, "5 Pillars of Islam" (with a list). Below that, the Christian "The 10 Commandments". Next to it, "The Seven Fundamental Tenets". Below it, "Buddhism Knowledge." Next to that, "I am Hindu." Each has lists of rules/beliefs.
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
Can't wait for someone to have a heart attack over the Tenets being included.
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Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.
@VeroniqueB99 I like this collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_the_Ten_Commandments
