History professor eviscerates LA law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse reacts to the new Louisiana law requiring classrooms in public schools to display the Ten Commandments.
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I like, “put the constitution up. Let students read the laws of this land…”
Given the GOP’s hypocrisy regarding moral behavior, I think the Ten Commandments should instead be referred to as the Ten Suggestions
That really is a good point about putting up the constitution instead. Why don't they do this? It's almost like they're afraid the very thing they preach about is actually not the way they claim it is. It's almost like they'll be outed that the constitution doesn't support right-wing politics.
When I was in school in the 70s, the 10 commandments were painted on the wall of our school , public school in MO. None of us kids thought it was bad and I'm Speaking of other kids who had other religions as well, when they painted over it, a lot of the kids thought it was wrong due to it was about moral right from wrong. Us kids back then understood more about simulating and learning and appreciation for one another. We weren't racist We weren't hateful. We didn't see color, and personally, my family came to America in the early 1700s. My ancestry is connected to 22 presidents , Princess Diana Winston Churchill Elvis Presley. Amelia Earhart. John Wayne and other exceptional people. We understood more about the foundation of our country , and we all had guns in our gun racks in our trucks at school. No one shot each other. They were for hunting. And target practice, and protection for our country and the protection of melting pot of peole who were our citizens. We didn't waste $ on the newest phone. When ours worked fine, we definitely wouldn't sell any of America's land to another country. This great country needs to get back to what's really important , and stop taking away freedom and liberties away from people. And people have the right to participate in religion where ever they are standing in this country without being harassed by others because a person's faith is who an individual is. The reasons for the greatest generation, well, I'll just say were far from them. Who would have thought, we would be facing the things we face in todays world. Its disgusting
Louisiana classrooms: A picture of Donald Trump above the 10 Commandments and the words: If you break most/all, you can run for president of the United States!!!
PUT UP A SECTION OF THE HOLY QUR''AN
If there is no separation of church and state. Then start taxing all church's.
I fully agree 10,000 percent.
They really should. Start with Scientology.
@@Mark-zm6hm Maybe I'm missing something but I am hearing a LOT more push of who to vote for from CHRISTIANS than I am from any Scientologist. Start with all the Christian churches FIRST.
If there is separation of church and state then there is even more reason to tax them
😆 okay
I think all the churches playing mouthpiece for a political party should have to pay taxes.
Well said
agreed
And make all churches have to put the US Constitution on their walls.
Thats the law... Religious organisations are tax free. As long as they stay out of politics. As soon as they engage in politics, they are no longer tax-except Its just that these laws are never enforced. Not ONCE in the history of the country. So they just dont care.
Congrats, you just came up with an idea that is already part of the law.
Yay we all know how great governments that prioritize religion over science end up...
Bankrupt from Crusades and 300 year wars?
Soviet Russia and Hitler's Germany totally prioritized religion over science.
... except the exact opposite of that, so... maybe find a different argument.
Very successful
@@PleaseElaborate actually Adolf cut a deal with the pope back then to cement his power grab in Germany, so maybe you find a different argument.
Like politicians religion is the root of all evil.
Commandments in school, tax breaks overturned.
The money they will spend defending a law that is unconstitutional would be better spent in education in school since their reading level is very poor. Louisiana has the fifth-lowest literacy rate in the nation; about 72.9% of Louisianians are literate
And states like Florida ban books,we need to be smart always ,in this day and age American children are the future of America and need to be smarter then past generations ,Republicans are leading the country back in time ,
You have to understand, Landry will be hiring his rich lawyer friends to defend this in court so that they can get richer. And you're talking about a poor state that moreover is facing a gigantic budget hole for the next fiscal year due to a sales tax expiring. It's pathetic. I'm from Louisiana and am embarrassed.
Jēsus these people!!
and how many of that 72% never attend school at all and instead are gang bangers, all of them? Need to fix society and the family first. Good luck.
Crikey! That's appalling. Many 3rd World countries have a higher literacy rate than that.
Does this mean we can put the commandments of Islam in schools?
They are exactly the same, so in effect, you ARE putting the Muslim 10 commandments up on the school walls.
@@Crusty_Camper even if they are exactly the same, it might be respectful to have them up in arabic or whatever language is considered most significant in Islam
@@Crusty_Camper The three Religions that believe in the Abrahamic faith are Christian, Judaism and Islam. Islam focuses on The Five Pillars as their core beliefs. So that is what Islam could post as their ten commandments.
How about children don’t need any more distractions. It’s bad enough they have to deal with politics. Good old social studies/civics and U.S. history is all they should be taught when it comes to religion and politics.
@@aeronhoare7706 I agree. We already use their numbers, so why not?
"OK, we put the Ten Commandments on the School Walls, and killed free lunches for poor kids.
"Jesus will be SO PROUD of us!"
The notion that putting the Constitution on the wall results in the loss of free lunches for poor kids is patently absurd, as is the implication that putting the Ten Commandments on the wall somehow provides them. That free lunches for poor kids can only be provided by religious people is asinine, and Jesus can't be proud of us; he's fictional.
Judged by works
Religion is lies and mythology.
There are still free lunches...maybe not where u are idk...do you even have children in the public education system?
@Rob-ke4rs We could also add in the persecution of LGBTQ children and the Literal Worldwide Cover-up of ya'lls "issues" with children in general..... Better Now?
First “In god we trust”, then “under god” in pledge, now the 10 commandments. The slope is getting slippery each time.
Fun fact, the "under God" part of the pledge was a McCarthy era addition. Previously to his period of insanity in American history, the Pledge of Allegiance was about country, not religion.
This country was largely created by Christians. What is being left unsaid is that they formed the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence with an intent of providing FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, conservatives are duping the American people by making it out as if they intended RELIGIOUS DOMINATION. That is a LIE.
The concept of God is very separate than that of Jesus, and Christianity
The reference to god is still an anchor for religious ideology, and the Christians are exploiting it to their benefit. Case in point, the 10 commandments.
That sounds like the 2A argument even though "well regulated" militia means exactly that, regulated!
Keep Religion Out of Politics
Keep religion out of GOVERNMENT.
Keep indoctrinated religion out of the minds of children.
Keep God back in our country period.
And out of schools!
@@loidagastelu8095 WHICH ONE? Odin? Vishnu? Ra? Quetzalcoatl?
Is Landry America's stupidest governor? He is aiming high for a republican.
Landry? Isn't that the guy that had no choice but to affirm belief in the Christian god when he took his oath of office despite this mythical "separation of church and state"?
@@mimcduffee86 not too mythical, given what the men who wrote the first amendment wrote, what the first SCOTUS decided and well, all case law for the past 250 years.
These people need to return back to the worship of the only god that they know, the Almighty Dollar.
@@mimcduffee86
Aw look... another criminal. You must be a RAY Pessed too😊
Thanks for telling it as it is
Moses did not exist.
Thank you for being honest sir. We need more men like you. We need facts and truth. Not forced religion in schools. Keep it up. Excellent video.
@@michellebrown4903 sure he did, I had to walk him to make sure he didn't cut school every morning.
At least it feels like I'm that old in the morning...
Oddly though, no evidence of slaves building anything in Egypt, only skilled laborers. There was some odd warrior tribe that came out of the desert that contracted with the Pharaoh for a bit, they started some trouble and got ran out of Egypt...
Whatever Supernatural fairy tales that you believe in please keep them to yourselves and out of politics!💙💙
The Christian Taliban proudly leading the way for Project 2025's replacement of American Democracy. I weep for the country whose Democracy I fought for, and for those who died defeating enemies of our precious inheritance.
Well, you fought our foreign enemies. Now, the enemy is within the house!
Weird that you fought for a democracy when we’ve NEVER been a democracy.
@@matthewread9001So, that's the new fascist lie, huh. Makes my skin crawl. America is a democratic republic, meaning we're a democracy with elected representives. The President represents the will of the electorate, unless Republican fascists like you get in the way.
@@matthewread9001We're a democratic republic, which means we're a democracy that elects fellow citizens to represent the free will of voters.
@@ibeetellingya5683 our constitution is literally founded upon unalienable rights given to us by god. we have always been one nation under god. only recently have we begun to resent the idea of god and religion. but the truth is the belief in a higher power seems to be essential to a functional society
Conservatives - I value the constitution as the document to guide our country.
Also conservatives - I want to impose aspects of my religion on everybody.
You misinterpret what is being said. But I see how you would. All the laws of the U.S. are based in Judaih/ Christian philosophy, hence the Ten Commandments are interred in the laws of the land called the United States.
@@stevenhunt3113That is absurd. Think about the commandant requiring the sabbath to be kept holy. What part of the constitution mentions the sabbath? What state enforces that rule? The constitution doesn’t secretly enforce Christianity. It forbids any religious limitus test. So you may not insist on Christianity or demand that the state teach your religion.
@@stevenhunt3113 The first amendment says the government can't endorse a religion.
@@dsavereide What government office is open on Saturday ( Seventh Day Adventist Sabbath ) or Sunday ( Christian Sabbith) ?
@stevenhunt3113 This is PATENTLY FALSE. Our Constitution was inspired by the British Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights....
Know which laws WERE inspired by Christianity? The laws that said you could own people and the ones that made women little better than property. But I can understand how a FRAGILE, FECKLESS, and HOLLOW little man would see that as appealing.
THANK YOU!! PERFECTLY SAID!! : - PUT THE CONSTITUTION UP ON THE WALL, LOUISIANA!!!! What OUR REAL LAW STATES, THE LAW OF OUR LAND !!🤬🔥🌋
Early 1980's, the court ruling of Stone vs Graham, in Kentucky said, no, no, no you can't do this.
@janetheadrick4598 what was the reason given for not putting the US Constitution up in classrooms???
Then learn and follow it, the part where it says free speech means you can talk about God if you want.
@@brandirose3874it said posting the 10 commandments (suggestions in Hebrew) was a violation of the first amendment. Meaning the "commandments" were not allowed in public schools according to the constitution of the United States.
@@SupHapCakno one is stopping anyone from talking about any god, we can talk about Brahma and Vishnu or Vajrapāṇi, and Mañjuśrī if you want.
I do agree with you Sir. The State should not favor any religion. There is a provision in the Consti re: separation of the church/religion from the state. Everyone should have the freedom to worship or choose your own religion.
Or not to choose any religion at all.
Then you should be fighting back just as hard against Islam
FYI we do have a state enforced religion of secularism. You aren’t allowed to publicly profess your faith without people claiming church and state should be separate.
@@SupHapCak that's just stupid...and wrong. Secularism by definition isn't a religion. Learn how words work.
Annoyingly, there are far too many adopting a party line that denies that the very first amendment says what it plainly says and what those who penned it said that it says.
I've finally stopped arguing with them, agree that the Constitution is null and void and praise our King Charles, Long Live the King!
Pretty sure the room they're in while reading that becomes quite radioactive...
Separation between church in state in in no federal document.
Learning early what the constitution actually says can only be a good thing for the country.
They'll never allow it. Teach kids their rights They'll grow to become adults who Know and Defend those rights. Easier to trample them when you keep people uninformed
MAGAs don't read. During a Trump rally, one supporter was asked if he had ever read the Constitution. His answer was, "The Constitution? Who has time?" Someone must have brainwashed him to believe that the Constitution is super long. SMDH
but then a state legislature is not congress and they can not prohibit free exercise of christo judaism exercises in schools if the majority would vote in that popular vote within the state for the display,depending on majority's vote.
Dude. These people arent really the reading kind. They havent read their precious constitution any more than they have read their bibles. I have never met one that has.
@@captain_context9991 i know the 10 commandments by memory and the constitution says no law prohibiting of free exercise of religion.
Separation of church and state is actually a way to save religion from prosecution. Look into human history. Ironically religious fundamentalist don’t understand that.
Indeed, many of those that settled in the US did so because they were oppressed by the official religions of the kingdoms they left.
Looks really safe from prosecution.
It's well worth looking into the history of the establishment clause, because it was motivated at bottom by one sect of Christianity trying to oppress another sect. They wrote to Jefferson about it, and this led to Jefferson formulating the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, which in turned was the basis for the establishment clause when it came to constructing the bill of rights.
Along with the John Oliver Memorial Sewage Treatment Plant, this is why Danbury, Connecticut is on the map of American history.
@@TorIverWilhelmsen ...and proceeded to oppress neighbors that believed differently than they did.
If you read the letters you'd also know that the separation of church and state has nothing to do with separating it and keeping it away from politics etc. What it states is no national system nor requirement, that goes for politicians who are free to worship as well however when it comes to making laws and so on that is where the line is supposed to be divided to minimize personal and religious bias.
If you read the letters you'd also see what was said.
Yes, put the US Constitution on the Walls!!!! Dark Brandon 2024!!!!!
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@@tasha1626 so you hate the Constitution? Yeah, typical Republican.
@@tasha1626 LOL stay triggered, christofascist!
Put "E Pluribus Unum" back on the currency.
Require all churches to have the US Constitution on the wall .
Uhmmm... so... snall detail: Moses likely never existed.
Yeah that’s just false. You can argue some historical facts. But much of the Bible is a historical document.
@matthewread9001 I'm not arguing it... serious historians are. I just tend to believe unbiased academics who accept some of what the bible says... i.e. they neither discount nor blindly believe any historical text without doing their due diligence....which is saying something given much of the old testament is wilder than the lord of the rings.
@matthewread9001 there is zero evidence for the exodus in the bible
@@matthewread9001 Incorrect
Easier to fool people with religion, than constitution!🤷🏼♂️
He's angling for national office in the possible upcoming christofachistic post trump amerika
People seem to have forgotten that when Christianity was in control, that the world itself was a horrible place and that the church liked it like that.
😂😂😂whut?
Right! A built-in reason to instill fear in their flock and control the masses.
@@vstefe1280 The Dark Ages ring a bell? Religion burned our best and brightest minds at the stake because they were right! The Earth is not the center of the universe!
Control mechanism that was is used in all cultures time immemorial...we are a primitive bunch just one step out of the cave.
@@vstefe1280Salem witch trials ring a bell? Slavery? Woman treated as second class citizens? All based on Christianity.
I like that, PUT THE CONSTITUTION IN EVERY CLASSROOM! Time these kids know their rights!
This is ridiculous ; the law makers are factually incorrect but not surprised coming from Louisiana .
Churches should be taxed.
Why? The money was already taxed and taxed before that and taxed again your money or anyone else's is taxed multiple times before going to a church if you choose to donate or do the tithe or whatever.
So you want to tax money that was taxed that was taxed because you're angry and want control and expect the government who can't even spend it appropriately to handle that?
Real intelligent there aren't ya.
Why?
Church employees already pay income and payroll taxes.
@@jdotoz the churches themselves should be taxed just as any other business gets taxed.
@@greeniehead Most are non-profits.
Gave me chills. He speaks facts. Couldn't agree more, put the constitution on the wall.
Would LOVE to require that the Constitution and Bill of Rights be put on the walls in every public school! Very appropriate, indeed.
This is an excerpt from a letter written by Th. Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
Oh great. A letter from one guy promising a pastor that The government won’t enforce which Christian denomination to attend.
This what happens when people unfit to be representatives are given power they dont understand their nations government so go against its founding principles just to say 'did me do good' fools
People under religious persecution and the imposition of a different religion on them travelled to the New World to avoid being dictated to by religious fanatics.
And now the religious fanatics are among them and starting all over again.
Ironically, the ‘christians’ who push for this display anti-Christ-like personalities.
They clearly ignore the parable of the Good Samaritan and the list of Beatitudes.
Oh but they started as soon as they came over. Like the Puritans. It wasn't about religious freedom. It was about the freedom to impose their own brand of religion.
You are right but a MAGA Supreme Court will override
Which is exactly why they've been filling the SC with far right judges for decades.
This Supreme Court Justices need to put that up in their offices and in the courtroom and reread it.
politicians are like magicians, they misdirect thus avoiding the hard issues
Seems like Louisiana isn't interested in the Constitution
If i was a teacher i would put up the consitution, and then all the religious creeds for every religion and culture represented in the school.
Leave religion out of the classroom.
All? There’s like 4,200 religions with 18,000 gods. Let the kids study a normal curriculum and leave religion out of the schools. We don’t need more distractions.
I'd just put it up in Arabic. Let the Bible thumper's brains melt over that.
@@DaxianPreston"represented in the school"
And there's nothing inherently wrong about teaching world religions if done in a cultural anthropological or literary manner
@@michellebrown4903They brought it in, all that’s left is malicious compliance
cut OFF ALL FEDERAL FUNDING TO Louisiana.
I’m a God fearing Christian who grew up in church however I strongly believe that whatever religion you are should be taught by the parents and not forced down children’s throats considering the Old Testament/law (the Universal Creator who gave Moses the law) was exchanged by the New Testament/the grace of Jesus Christ. God gave the forefathers Insight and discernment to write the United States Constitution in that manner not to give one more power than the others/equal. If this nonsensical situation happens what’s really going to happen is that children will resent religious beliefs/God. I taught my children but I never forced it down their throat because I believe that Salvation is individual. God gave man the authorities not to abuse its power. Man is NOT GOD!!!
Amen.
Why does your god want you to fear it?
Why does it require " worship "?
This sounds like an abusive relationship.
Yes. Religion begins at home. I don't want a school teaching my kids religion!
Fear is having reverence/respect for the Lord and not being afraid. I worship God who created us out of his LOVE and formed me by the power of the Holy Spirit. So no my relationship with Jesus Christ is not abusive.
It's ironic how many "Christians" go on and on about the 10 Comandments...
A tentant of JUDAISM. Yet NONE of you ever say a word about CHRIST'S Sermon on The Mount. 🤔
I like the ideal about putting up the constitution up instead. Because some people can name the 10 Commandments well most can. But very few about the Constitution.
The ten commandments pretty much keep you from breaking the laws ...
@@danhtran6401Give me ONE example. I'll spot you Trump!
@@elialmodovar6685 that's assuming you follow the commandments.. 😂...trump?... What about him?... He's anti Christ....
@@danhtran6401 Riiight. Trump, Boebert, and Greene broke the 7th and 8th Commandment, just to name a couple.
@danhtran6401 it's your inner moral compass and your upbringing. Commandments have nothing to do with breaking laws. Look at all the religious zealots who knew the Commandments and still committed crimes.
Improve the level of education in Looosianna and leave the 10 in church. 👍💯😐😕
Everything in its place.!
Honestly putting THE CONSTITUTION in every class room to start discussions would be an amazing thing as it is the law of the land.
Louisiana, last or next to last state in every KPI measured by man
This could not have been said any better,there is a separation of church and state for a reason!
The most inappropriate teacher in my high school in 70s was local pastor who taught ELECTIVE bible studies. Finally got fired when enough girls got creeped out by him.
Finally , someone who makes sense. They are getting rare.
Gov. and Church are always seperated until Daiper Governor thinks Trumpy Bibles are real.😂
Why is there never, EVER a suggestion to put the Beatitudes on classroom walls? "Blessed are the peacemakers" just too radical a concept, eh?
Yes, and Trump wants to change all that. VOTE BIDEN.
Not into religious FICTION !!!!
Fellow historian here. So nice to hear a voice of reason.
Well said, Sir!
What American children really need,is real education, religion should be teaching at home under the guidance of the parents ,teach constitution LAW
Seriously, what is happening right now?
Churches bought the Republican party
I've been in Utah since 1997. They've never respected the constitution. The harassment I got in school by teachers, guidance counselors, even vice priciples for not being Mormon was just one layer of religious discrimination I've received.
I really hope this leads to an enforcement of the separation of church and state. I fear it will lead to the destruction of it.
Utah hasn't been a Mormon controlled state for decades it's population hasnt been half Mormon since the late 1900s..
Someone is very much biased and incorrect.
Texas has a ton of baptists none of us here claim the baptists are controlling things.
Also Mormon do you know what you're talking about?
Because Mormon is not the church you're thinking of it is called the church of Jesus christ of latter day saints.
Otherwise Mormon well there's a few of them and they're all offshoots of other churches who just took up the name.
Freedom of religion. Period!
Or, freedom from it
So that means we can put the commandments of Islam in schools right?
Do you not understand what freedom means?
@@kingkongchief1177 or even a satanic equivalent
AS usual Freedom for we and not for thee. The constitution gives us freedom from religion not Freedom of religion. 1st Amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It doesn't mention freedom of religion it says that the government cannot prohibit your free exercise which is not freedom of religion. If the founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation they would have said so in the constitution but they did the opposite. Most of them practiced Deism which believed in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.
EXACTLY!!!!!! I GUESS,, THAT,,"THE,,, SEPARATION,, BETWEEN,,, CHURCH AND,,STATE,,,IS, LONG GONE????????????????
I hate when want to use it, but have never read it.
Man, what an idea. Let students learn about the constitution.
This display is deeply offensive to non-Christians!
It's about not murding, honor your parents, adultery is wrong ,stealing wrong, not craving things your neighbors has. The only part offensive is don't say god's name in vain. And don't worship others, or build false gods. Get over yourself, the rest is don't be a criminal , hateful or gossiping, and be decent, move on . I bet you don't even know that when you fold the flag, every fold has a meaning. You need to learn to live and let live and be decent to others this country was built on faith , also, the government . Would not force or intervine in a person's choice, but you couldn't distroy it. what has been slowly destroyed in this country the last 40 yrs. Simple if you disagree fine , move on . shouldn't distroy foundations and history, just for haters who don't want to be passive ,humble decent, simulate or who can't learn from the past. Just like destroying books is wrong. So sick of haters, who can't agree to disagree and be respectful and realize this country is know as a melting pot of many. I'm against haters or groups that support hateful evil cults. But we have many of those now too.
@@melissahurst3790 Re-word them, then. Personally, I think they'd do better to stick up a poster saying "Do as you would be done by", to which nobody of any faith could object. Your remarks about the flag are completely irrelevant to the subject, which is the imposition of Judaeo-Christian values on those of other faiths. As for your country being "built on faith", that requires an hour's answer, which I'm not inclined to give. From where I stand, it looks as if your country was built on opportunism, g******e and s******y.
@melissahurst3790 My reply to you was shadow banned. I shall try again: the flag is irrelevant to the discussion, and I don't know why you brought it up. If the posters had read "Do as you would be done by", I doubt anyone would have any objections. In this case, I *strongly* object to having Judeo-Christian scriptures imposed on children. Sunday School, if you're a believer, is the appropriate place for such a display. As it is, the many non-Christian children in _public_ schools are, imo, being bullied. How would you feel if you had to stare at a quotation from the Koran, or Bhagavad-Gita, all day? You can find just as good (if not better) moral advice in either as in the Bible. KEEP RELIGION OUT OF SCHOOLS.
@@melissahurst3790 The entire 10 commandments could be boiled down to just one commandment, "Be a hypocrite" and it's values would be exactly the same.
We don’t need Christianity. We can boil it down to one “commandment”: an it harm none, do what ye will shall be the whole of the law.
But it's much better to waste money on the lawsuit than use it for schools
Guess they don't know about the separation of State and religion.
Most people don’t care about non laws
I'm a devout Christian and a Conservative voter and I 100% AGREE with this statement!!! Put up the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, the American's Creed!!
Predates Moses by 4 centuries? So before God existed?
Before the Hebrew God existed. There were zillions of other gods who pre-dated the Code of Hammurabi.
@@annalieff-saxby568 thus is based on what evidence? I want to point out that though I believe in the God of Abraham, I do not believe this is the Age of Adam. I would like to view this Codex, because I am aware that we have many writings that were at the same time as the Biblical writings, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Besides Biblical writings there were Summarian and some writings that we were unable to find a
source.
I am not trying to dispute what you are saying; honestly am trying to learn the truth.
The code is from 1700 BC
The Flood was 2000 BC
Adam was 4000 BC
This is where my issue comes from 2300 years before the Code was written The God of Abraham placed Adam in the Garden.
Yes, there were other Gods, if not God would not have said, " Let us make..."' I get that part.
@@stevenhunt3113 Well try Old Kingdom Egypt, for a start. The evidence is easily obtainable.
@@annalieff-saxby568 Yes, Thank You.
@@stevenhunt3113 You can "Believe" that. But this is the a SECULAR Nation, and we are in the 21st Century. Bronze Age MYTHOLOGY gets no voice.
WHY would students think "law" means anything ??? Our children watch crimes against voters committed right before their eyes, but see NO ACTION BY THE COURTS to address crimes - except for peons and private citizens.
Jesus said that we must separate church and state. Look it up in the Bible,
"Give to Cesar what belongs to Cesar and give to God what belongs to God."
It cannot be any similar.
Read the Bible.
Read the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. is a constitutional democracy NOT a theocracy. The founding fathers kept church and state SEPARATE by design.
May God Bless America.
I would much rather see the constitution on the walls of public schools Thant the 20 commandments and the constitution belongs in school where religion unless in a religious school doesn’t belong in public schools. As they are FOR ALL STUDENTS OF SNY FAITH OR NOT OF SNY FAITH.
Yeah, I don’t really want to be Afghanistan. Because this kind of crap is what the Taliban does. Or the Iranian theocracy. We’re a secular democracy, because our Founders were trying to avoid things like the 30 Years War, and the Hundred war that Christians fought with other Christians in Europe. This avoids crazy not just between different religions, but also avoids bickering within the SAME religion.
Also, also, archeologists, even biblical archeologists know that Moses was NOT a real character of history. Yknow like King Arthur or Solomon, that despite having his name on a on earth Jewish temple, can NOT be found in the historical record.
VOTE BLUE!! Vote for Democracy and our Constitution!!
Keep ALL religions out of the State and public buildings. Democracy means not favoring any one denomination. Keep America Democratic.
Code of Hammurabi would be a brilliant compromise to teach in schools. Not that it is necessary to be in EVERY room! (geez) It's a brilliant history lesson to illustrate man's continual desire to be civilized and respectful.
WELL,,,"THE,, RELIGIOUS,, RIGHT",,, WOULD,,, NEVER, ALLOW THAT!!!!! RIGHT???????
Atheism isn't a religion, it's a personal relationship with REALITY
IANAL but the legislature's specificity in how the 10 Commandments are to be displayed makes a solid case that they're compelling speech, especially since tradition and custom is that classroom posters are at the classroom teacher's sole discretion. I could just be wanting their zeal to anticipate and thwart malicious compliance to be their undoing.
He got the second point right; the First Amendment IS about no "Church of the United States" counterpart to the Church of England.
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I'm sure the first lawgiver far predates Hammurabi. It was probably a Neanderthal chieftain who hung a gourd on a tree and its meaning was "No pooping upstream of this point."
Without separation of church and state, the state will regulate religion. Do religious people really want this? Government regulation of faith?
You fundamentally can't put faith in government without giving government authority over religion.
I'm a Catholic but I think this idea is such a bad one. It's going to cause schools so much trouble. No one has thought this through, as in "what happens if we do this..." They just decided "we want to do this."
Not only does the code of Hammurabi pre-date Moses, it actually existed. Moses didn't.
Yes, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence is what they should be putting up on the walls in schools. Because it is clear that many of them don’t know either.
Vote Republican if you want the
Christian Taliban in the USA.
Louisiana is ranked 47th state in education. Perhaps the state should put the ABCs on classroom walls.
LA lawmakers just proving what bigots they are.
My friend your truth is something few wanna hear.
White law has rewritten everything about this country that I love . This country sees one religion, christianity this is seen as a white religion and if asked most people about their beliefs, they will say Christianity.
When your asked do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth so help you God ? What god are we swearing to?
Who ever put 10 commandments in classroom good 4u.. keep reminding those kids how Trump broke all those commandments..😂😂😂
America mentions everyones' God given rights, don't try to talk about no Gods' law
Please keep talking about the actual Constitution! The separation of Church and State is sacrosanct. We cannot allow the Church to dictate the Law.
Election year tomfoolery that the state of Louisiana is going to spend money mitigating. 🤦♀️
If I’m forced to put the 10 commandments in my classroom, i will make a wall of mythology.
Go to churches and videotape them talking politics. Turn info into the IRS
YUP!!!!!! EXACTLY!!!!!!!! YOU CAN'T,, HAVE,,BOTH!!!!!!! JUST SAYIN!!!!!!!
If the church is in the state, the state will be in the church, and vice versa. This was the understanding that our founders had, which so many lack today.
There are 3 instances of the word "religion" in the Constitution. AT leas twice it is preceded by the word "no".
Well then, the Federal government should react appropriately.
Louisiana says that because these posters will be paid for by outside sources that it's OK. Seems that once that door is open any group can put up their beliefs on school walls