Ah, yes. Very foundational to our legal system. The First Commandment (using the version usually touted by evangelicals):

You shall have no other gods.

That’s why we didn’t pass the Bill of Rights with the US Constitution. Because the First Amendment there states people shall have freedom of religion, and that would contradict the First Commandment.

it is the Ten Commandments’ "historical significance, which is simply one of many documents that display the history of our country and foundation of our legal system.”

Alright, so let’s put them up right next to the Hammurabi Code, which is also majorly significant to history and our legal system. Maybe highlight the part about how Hammurabi was chosen by the Babylonian gods as the ultimate arbiter of justice.

Then certainly he will want to post the Mayflower Compact which says “to each according to their needs from each according to their means”.

We historically feared satanism too. Should probably post their commandments “so that the kids know what to watch for”. Right next to the biblical ones.

1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

It’s the power of belief. When you train your brain to take things on faith despite of evidence, that’s what you get.

These tools probably actually believe this country was founded on “the” ten commandments, even if the secular founding and the freedom FROM religion flies right in the fact. The first of “the” ten commandments and the First Amendment come into conflict right away. Their silly fanfic has their god Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh declaring there is to be no other god but him. Meanwhile, my First Amendment means I don’t have to give a flying fuck what they say their god says.

I’ll give him credit if he can produce the original, historical “document” he’s talking about

I demand the Magna Carta and the Code of Hammurabi be posted, using the same argument.

Going by memory of Captain Obvious’ guide book:

So… He’s bearing false witness about some stolen traditions (Jewish) & made in to a graven image.

If I had to guess, I would bet he worships cash & oppression more than Jaweh. I could be wrong. It could be pedophilia, like most vocally puritanical types.

What did I miss? 3/10 isn’t great. The fourth is just guess & conjecture.

if it’s not religious, why would you legally enshrine it? What other fucking reason do you have? The schools can just buy their own fucking copy of it ffs.

Because they don’t actually believe in it

Just like the bible, they love to cherry pick whatever fits into their narrative.

What are you talking about?

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad Better

Says so right there in black and white.

Cause they are Putin’s Pooh Stains. He (& by his shitting out/spoon feeding marching orders, they) want to dismantle democracy.

His offense budget (~40k/year per social media troll (how many does he employ?)) does wonders against our defense budget (IDK how many hundreds of billions, but random memory says mid 7s).

It’s technically not against the Constitution. The First Amendment prevents the government from creating or establishing a religion, and thereby prevents the power of the government from expanding beyond civil matters.

SCOTUS further restricted religious public education by ruling against religion in public curriculum in Engel v. Vitale in 1962.

Having religious text on display without induction into the curriculum is legal. Only now that they’ve mandated one religion, other religions have a platform for equal representation. Maybe it’s time for The Satanic Temple to open a Louisiana congregation?

I was thinking: gimme Zarathustra, like they useta

…but Baphomet willl do.

It does fly in the face of the constitution, and multiple SCOTUS’ have affirmed exactly that several times.

It will be overturned after months of totally unnecessary court wrangling.

LA lawmakers will then say “we tried to enact your will, voters, but those godless fat cats in DC wouldn’t let us!”

Meanwhile said lawmakers will make no actual attempt to fix the status quo, and the wrangling and debate will ensure entrenched powers stay in power.

It clearly does, and allowing this to be enforced clearly breaks precedent, but with how the Supreme Court is now who knows what will happen.

Actually, it doesnt. The SCOTUS will say that the 1A only limits federal powers, not state.

It’s certainly illegal. But Louisiana is in the fifth circuit court of appeals, which is hilariously conservative. That’s the same court that covers Texas, and a few other southern states. Packing the fifth circuit with conservatives was a large part of the Southern Strategy. Now the appeals court is packed with hardline conservative judges. Whenever you hear about appeals courts being blatantly biased for conservatives, it’s almost always the fifth circuit.

So yeah, it’s illegal. But even if Louisiana courts strike it down, the fifth circuit appeals judge will likely reinstate it as soon as it crosses their desk.

Not even that complicated; just invite a religious scholar to explain what Jesus said, starting with caring for hungry people and immigrants and in general literally just what he taught and what he cared about

They’ll shut that shit down like a female student with unpermitted clothing

Just post the laws from Leviticus right next to them to make it clear nobody follows this.

Do it in original Hebrew to really have some fun.

Its really helpfull for brainwashing children. Lesson learned from the Taliban

They needed a church thing their idiot constituents would recognize. They don’t actually follow their religion to know more obscure things. It’s not actually about the 10 commandments, it’s about being performative.

Thou shall not kill. Louisana has the death penalty. Might be a bit of a conundrum.

Sorry, they don’t want to follow the Commandments, they just want other people to do so.

I would watch this very well sourced video before donating to the TST and its leadership.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lV8GLQtOTs

They are performative; they are not your protection.

Last I knew, nobody was committing genocide in the name of Baphomet or Satan Lucifer…or pretty much any god except the Dommy Abrahamic Sky Daddy.

it’s actually very simple. The Republicans in charge are evil and don’t care, while their followers are too uneducated to know any better.

Easy, they don’t GAF about any of that. They care about as much as they do about the “rule of law” and for “family values”.

I think those are the Church of Satan principles.

Some may prefer the Satanic Temple’s tenets: https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets

Either way, I agree, LA should be required to put up the beliefs of all religions if it will require even one.

Please no. CoS is basically narcissism as a religious cult. TST are the ones doing the real work. And having actual common sense rules up there rather than edgy bullshit is going to do far more good.

Lol magic

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Or the 5 tenets of the dark brotherhood (elder scrolls)