And the majority on the Supreme Court
nickqt
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Wait until they find out that the Ten Commandments are Jewish scripture.
K1052
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Since conservatives on the court just made up new facts whole cloth in that football coach coerced prayer case I'm not wildly optimistic they wouldn't find a way to let this slide.
Not even sure why they care about the 10 commandments. They don’t follow them anyways.
ivwshane
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kage69
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Mandating their cult at public schools. Ugh. Christofascist batshit from people who fail at being American, sounds like Texas to me.
"The purpose of separation of state and church is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe for centuries" - James Madison
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." - Thomas Jefferson
Behold, the real groomers at work.
"The purpose of separation of state and church is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe for centuries" - James Madison
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." - Thomas Jefferson
Behold, the real groomers at work.
Zorba
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Fundies don't think so. Technically the idea of a wall between the church and state came from a letter written by Jefferson when he was president. Of course, he based that on the first amendment, but fundies don't believe it. And last I checked the USSC is 2/3 fundies.
IronWing
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Six of the current judges are Catholic. If they know their church history, they might recall that the reason the church set up a separate, Catholic school system was to avoid the Protestant indoctrination prevalent in American public schools prior to the 1970s.
Indus
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Religion is the oldest form of mental control.
If you don't obey, you're going to hell.
Laws are the 2nd oldest.
If you don't obey, you're going to jail!
REFUSE
RESIST
RESIST TODAY
RESIST TOMORROW
If you don't obey, you're going to hell.
Laws are the 2nd oldest.
If you don't obey, you're going to jail!
REFUSE
RESIST
RESIST TODAY
RESIST TOMORROW
By the thread title I thought Texas was mandating That schools teach the Christian religion. Instead they are only mandating the presence of the ten commandments on school grounds.
That makes far more sense than mandating Christianity.
Can you imagine a world in which you could mandate Christianity in Texas. It would turn that hell hole of a corrupted cesspool into a paradise on earth.
That makes far more sense than mandating Christianity.
Can you imagine a world in which you could mandate Christianity in Texas. It would turn that hell hole of a corrupted cesspool into a paradise on earth.
kage69
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*cough* Actually...
The Senate also gave final passage to Senate Bill 1396, authored by Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, which would allow public and charter schools to adopt a policy requiring every campus to set aside a time for students and employees to read the Bible or other religious texts and to pray.
So, does the Establishment Clause make sense to you? How does the promotion of a specific religion at public schools make any sense at all if you understand the Constitution?
Can you imagine a world where Texas pulls trained and certified school counselors from their roles and replaces them with school "chaplains"? The Texans who crafted House Bill 3614 and Senate Bill 76 sure can. Fun!
Just imagine being a non christian parent of small kids in Texas. Not only do they get constantly reminded the holy rollers see them as heathens and unAmerican, these red states want to exempt "people of the cloth" from having to report sexual assault. Double the fuck you, no? Worry not moon, Texas is no danger of losing its hell hole of a corrupted cesspool status.
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kage69
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They also ruled women had a constitutional right to seek an abortion.
The Calvinball League doesn't care.
kage69
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BLM and demographics got them scared good. What makes it just revolting is people like that Lt Gov pencilneck calling this kind of thing "a victory for religious freedom."
They impose their religious will on others en masse and still try act like the victim while celebrating it. And remember those charter schools are taxpayer funded too.
Place is doomed to suck until it turns blue, at least purple, now it's just a regressive race with Florida.
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Or, it will take a look around and go... well shit, this is going to be a piece of cake!
There is only love and the love of Christ is one way to take you there. Just imagine if I could mandate you and all of Texas would actually see this. But there is no mandate that could make this happen. I only mention this because you have no idea what Christianity is. It isn't the joke you see in Texas and elsewhere. Just saying........
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Texas is so Christian and white a white man can be indicted and spend 7+ years never going to trial but in this same state a black woman is sentenced to 5 years for mistakenly casting a vote.
Only in America
Only in America
cytg111
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100% this. Religion is a measure of control and its bad simply cause there is very little accountability. When is the last time a preacher was voted out of his parish? That is not how that works. Zero power to the people.
I await the legal loophole if this goes through that allows the Muslim lobby should it exist, to mandate islamic studies in public schools too. Satanism, too.
ch33zw1z
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Here are some fundamentalist religion homeschooling materials, produced by a group called ATI. They provide materials to not just fundamentalist Baptists, but those of other denominations as well, including Amish.
It's telling some of the things they don’t believe in, like democracy and saving for retirement. They actually don’t believe in retirement, period - they believe God wants you to be a productive worker until you drop dead, and retirement encourages laziness.
But they have a lesson plan on why democracy is bad, the entire formatting of this is fucked, but if you look at page 55 of this pdf— it’s page 2691 using the page numbers in the book.
If they’re going to base the effectiveness of government on archaeology, then 2-3 thousand years isn't that bad. In Athens, the magnificent buildings were built under democracy, but ruined under authoritarian regimes. There are a lot more ancient ruins of, well, pretty much every form of government other than democracy.
It seems it's their aspiration is to live for eternity as happy serfs of the ultimate Absolute Monarch. Earthly governments get their legitimacy from Divine Mandate not from a consensus.
It's telling some of the things they don’t believe in, like democracy and saving for retirement. They actually don’t believe in retirement, period - they believe God wants you to be a productive worker until you drop dead, and retirement encourages laziness.
But they have a lesson plan on why democracy is bad, the entire formatting of this is fucked, but if you look at page 55 of this pdf— it’s page 2691 using the page numbers in the book.
If they’re going to base the effectiveness of government on archaeology, then 2-3 thousand years isn't that bad. In Athens, the magnificent buildings were built under democracy, but ruined under authoritarian regimes. There are a lot more ancient ruins of, well, pretty much every form of government other than democracy.
It seems it's their aspiration is to live for eternity as happy serfs of the ultimate Absolute Monarch. Earthly governments get their legitimacy from Divine Mandate not from a consensus.
In my lifetime we have gone from:
1) the state cannot fund religious instruction
To
2) the state can fund religious instruction
To
3) the state must fund religious instruction
So yeah I wouldn’t bet on SCOTUS stopping this.
kage69
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No silly, there are only facts, and cthulu, hey zeus, et all aren't required to appreciate them. Your reverence of love is all well and good, but you were asked to explain where your imagination and reality meet, and you haven't done that, shucks. "No idea what christianity is?" Heehe. Oh if only. If you don't know what the Establishment Clause is there are easier ways to communicate it. Just saying.
The joke I see here is someone refusing to acknowledge reality, despite help. I only mention this because apparently you seem have no idea what the Constitution is (like some Texans).
*the above typed with gobs of love*
ch33zw1z
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Sure, but actual Christianity means little to modern Christian’s. And to our government, there’s no discernible difference.
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