Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools.
The ruling sets up a potential clash at the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue in the future. Arkansas and Louisiana have passed similar laws, which have also been challenged in courts.
And Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar law earlier this moth.
Notably, the law does NOT say that you cannot display the Five Yamas, the Four Noble Truths, the Ten Precepts of Taoism, Five Pillars of Islam, etc., alongside them. That’s what I’d be doing, were I a teacher.
That’s what I would be doing, if I were a student.
There was a malicious compliance post where the 10 commandments were posted but it was in Arabic.
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And make the 10 commandments really really small. Perhaps hand written by a student with bad handwriting. In Spanish. With yellow ink on beige paper.
I’d go with like Klingon or something. I’m sure there are plenty of Spanish speakers in Texas. Probably a lot fewer who can read Klingon.
Don’t forget the Seven Tenets of Satanism
These are the ones I’d want to post. But, honestly, I’m scared. In any other state, or in the private sector, I’m woefully unqualified, and can’t afford to lose my job. Most likely, I’d eventually be vindicated in the courts, but I’d be fired and destitute well before that.
And the Pentabarf!
Might be going a bit too far. The point is educate kids that Christianity is not the only religion. Putting that up might delegitimize the argument.
Why?
Why? Really? It’s a fake religion. Not like most fake religions but like even they don’t even believe in it.
I keep waiting for the punchline here
…from whom?
Did you read them? They seem less problematic than the ten commandments to me.
No, because what they say is not relevant.
Maybe try reading them first.
I think you may have missed the part where I said what they say is not relevant. It was 90% of the message you just replied to.
It’s almost like you are afraid, it’s weird.
I don’t consider myself a Satanist, but their seven tenets are nearly impossible to argue against.
Here let me do you a favor and just paste them here for you:
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V
Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
Its almost like you don’t understand the point I’m making at all, it’s weird. No one is arguing against the tenets, I’m arguing against a satirical religion.
If they would be written in a poster on a wall it would matter. At least to anyone who actually sees them.
It wouldn’t matter to the people that matter. The people creating this legislation in the first place.
You are too concerned with being right and not concerned enough about protecting children from indoctrination.
They can’t denigrate text from Taoism and claim it’s not suppression of religious freedom, but they can totally point at text from a meme religion as proof that your argument is not serious.
The Satanic Temple is a non-religious civil rights organization, and this has been their primary tactic for years because it works. When you point out to John Q. Public that allowing the 10 Commandments into classrooms will also open the doors to the 7 Tenets of Satanism, it either causes a reversal of course or bulldozes a path for wider religious acceptance.
Yes, that’s the problem I pointed out in the previous comment.
No, it causes people to dismiss your concerns that arose from a satirical and insincere religion.
The Eight I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts.
Can you display a text saying “Christianity is false”?
Or a student, or a guest speaker…