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FakeNoose

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Tue Jun 25, 2024, 01:44 PM Jun 2024

Pros and Cons of Displaying the 10 Commandments in Every Classroom (The Onion)



Link: https://www.theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-displaying-the-10-commandments-in-ever-1851556523

The Republican Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry recently signed a law requiring state’s classrooms to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. The Onion explores the pros and cons of requiring religious doctrine in public schools.

PRO: A good way to cover up the bullet holes.
CON: Use of woke “Thou/Thy” pronouns.
PRO: Great example of counting to 10 in the real world.
CON: Just finished building golden calf.
PRO: Least out-of-date thing in classroom.
CON: True believers would display the entirety of the King James Bible.
PRO: Distracts from how weird the Pledge of Allegiance is.
CON: Not enough funding to print it out.
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Pros and Cons of Displaying the 10 Commandments in Every Classroom (The Onion) (Original Post) FakeNoose Jun 2024 OP
Oops some forgotten ones: From Exodus 34: 14-28 (orange Menace had how many felony convictions?) GreenWave Jun 2024 #1
Yeah, except The Onion didn't do a parody on these FakeNoose Jun 2024 #2

GreenWave

(9,203 posts)
1. Oops some forgotten ones: From Exodus 34: 14-28 (orange Menace had how many felony convictions?)
Tue Jun 25, 2024, 04:16 PM
Jun 2024

14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

17 “Do not make any idols.

18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.

20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[a] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments

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