Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments, court rules | Texas

That's not how theocracy works

Lots of Americans are against that. They see people abandoning their faith and instead of looking inward why, they look for ways to force those sinners back into the pews.

Separated on paper, but in classrooms from preschool on, the Pledge of Allegiance be like "One nation under God" [since 1954](https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm). Indoctrinating youth through repetition and ritual is religion's bread and butter.  They know you gotta get 'em young, before they start developing critical thinking skills.

"One nation under god" in your pledge of allegiance, , "In God we trust" on your money. There's no such thing as separation of church and state in the US, never has been

Only for taxes.

Tbh imo if we did that they should have to pay taxes. And we don’t have separation because of this very fact. Because you have to get tax exempt status, meaning the government regulates which religions are “real enough” to qualify. Always put a damper on the idea of separation to me.

>"Critics say it violates the separation of church and state while backers argue that the Ten Commandments are historical and part of the foundation of US law." "So what's the First Commandment?" We don't see anything that'd codified in law until number six

yet no requirement to post actual foundational documents like the Constitution 

A recipe for a nice pasta ragu would go well in hanging on the wall of every school. R’amen.

This is exactly what the Satanic Temple* is for. Hope they have a lawsuit ready to go.

Put the Satanic Temple Tenets and let people see which ones make more sense to themselves https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets

If it is in a high school or even middle school, you can guarantee someone will manage it

Iirc, the law specifies that other religious texts can’t go next to them

I vote for the Paranoid album cover. Or better yet, The Blizzard of Oz would be perfect. It kills 2 birds.

Thats worthless. Everyone knows that it's the commandments that are the ones being forced in by people with powerful. The threat is still there undiluted. This isnt malicious compliance, its just compliance. The only two options are refusal and collaboration.

I get the vibe you're going for, but in this case I feel like it would just give them ideas.

There is no cognitive dissonance. All that will communicate is someone being a pissant who will back down instantly when they put their foot down. Nothing short of refusal will mean jack shit

Well it's already allowed in the constitution, part of why we have so many prisoners. Now they just need to pump those numbers even higher.

Good god, don't give them any ideas...

Wait…it went away? Look at how the US treats migrants workers. There’s a reason why there are so many “illegals” here and why there’s little political will to revise laws and regulate migrant labor. Employers want to be able to pay them as little as possible and treat them as poorly as possible, and use fear of deportation against them

while i am absolutely on your side for the first part, the last one is a bit more complicated, as the jewish religion is very much a nation building attempt of an religion hand has probably less to do with being free and far more to do with closing their ranks and thus very much about authority.  There is a reason why the first three concern god ;)

Christianity/Catholicism and their analogues in particular. Trying to explain concepts like "original sin" and "scrupulosity" to people who have not had any exposure to their associated religions was really eye opening. Even (most) sects of Judaism are far more laid back, with an overall focus of being nice to other people and living in the moment. As a recovering southern baptist I can say for sure that there is unlikely to be many religions as obsessed with the afterlife at the cost of your actual life, which we very well may only get one of so is a damn shame. You ever see a pile of sobbing, despairing people laying at the foot of a cross, pleading, BEGGING desperately for Jesus to kill them right then and there, as their existence was now an unbearable anticipation for a perfect post-life they are *certain* exists and they are entitled to. I'm not surprised they have put all their eggs in one basket... it's a second chance to focus on those they had neglected to spend time with, to enjoy life with, right now. While their attention is always focused on that ultimate outcome, that possibility persists, one where their life wasn't wasted on false promises and desperate searches for meaning in a chaotic, indifferent universe. When you think of it like that, it makes a lot of sense that so many are gung-ho to catalyze the end times. Remember that they told soliders heading to Iran that it was a *holy war* and a *divine mission*. Oh and they said the conflict was part of "God's divine plan to trigger Armageddon and hasten the return of Jesus." I fear the world is at risk of terrible catastrophe, and whoever presses the button that seals our fate will think they're the good guys for doing so.

I hate to break it to you but just about everyone kinda needs rules to stay in line, religious or not.

The MAGA version. It's based on Protestant, but no one, especially the President, adheres to them.

Trump Commandments^TM^! Get your copy for 3 easy payments of $99.99! But wait, there's more grift...

Funny you say that. My friend and I both trace the time we gave up religion to the week we were sent to a christian camp when we were 7. My sister tracers hers to someone bringing in their pastor into the high school classroom for meet a hero day and he was laughed out of the room.

Less Christian Nationalists the better. Those people are sick in the head and should be institutionalized.

The inside of the closet door.