A Utah lawmaker is no longer pushing for public schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments but wants to add other biblical precepts and the Magna Carta to the curriculum.
Eh, its fine, there’s 50 states to choose from, moving between them is super easy. There’s only a handful you really want to avoid the rest of them are pretty chill.
Jokes on them. They pray to Jesus, call him the son of god and make pictures depicting both Jesus and god as white men. This is all against the first three commandments.
I know you don’t care but Jesus is a facet of God, a triune entity. I could go on but it really isn’t worth it to waste effort arguing theistic concepts with atheists. Might as well try and get dry aging tips from a vegan.
Mormon’s explicitly don’t believe this. They believe “God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost” are separate beings. This is why many don’t believe they are Christians.
I’m muslim. Allah (swt) explicitly rejects the trinity, clarifies that He is beyond having a son as He is the creator of everything but confirms the virgin pregnancy of Mary in the Quran. All prophets were messengers who passed the revelation among their people, but they were nothing but humans. Humans who deserve the highest respect, but must not be worshipped or likened to god.
I also listened to an interview with a catholic theology professor before converting (i was agnostic at the time), where he explains how these concepts came hundreds of years after Jesuses (pbh) prophethood and they mostly came for making christianity easier to approach to pagans.
It is also not my intend to mock christians as a whole, but those who clearly abuse the message of Jesus and agressively push their religion while understanding little of it.
I am sorry you got downvoted. i am also not a fan of the know-it-all “checkmate” atheists on platforms like reddit or lemmy and wasnt before converting.
I’m not telling anyone to believe or not believe anything. I just wanted to point out the hypocricsy in those that want to plaster biblical verses over public schools.
Nah, you pointed to everyone that worships jesus and the ten commandments. Don’t act like you are not hypocritical for criticizing another religion but not your own.
I’m sorry, that i worded it poorly then. I only meant to critise those that demand the ten commandments or any other biblical text to be plastered over public schools.
And did i say anywhere that its texts should cover the walls of public schools? Of course i didn’t. Also abrahamic religions have many overlaps so contextualising them with each other is a good way to gain a deeper understanding. Given the importance of religion it is always good to learn about them, even if one doesn’t share the faith.
Because public schools are a place for all children to be educated.
As children from every faith, ethnicity or cultural group should have equal access to education public schools should be an environment, where all children feel safe and comfortable. That requires a neutrality that cannot be achieved if there is symbols of one religion plastered all over the place, in the same way it cannot be achieved if the children are demanded or pressured to pledge allegiance to a nation state and its flag every day.
This is not to say that children shouldn’t be encouraged to talk about these aspects of their identity in a respectful manners. Also the school should do its best to respect practising childrens rights.
Didn’t Arkansas or Mississippi already get told that they couldn’t make the ten commandments government supported. There was some Court house somewhere
It’s not really that important outside of understanding what it is and the history. It’s not like our constitution, it’s just a set of laws most of which aren’t in place anymore
Well, that’s it. I hopped on Lemmy to pass some free time but I’m opting out and going to play video games or something. Lunacy in Utah, West Virginia, and Alabama. It’s one too many articles about the religious nutbags trampling our rights in their quest to bring about a theocratic state. See you all tomorrow.
Oh lord, hallowed by thine whip, and golden is your- hold up, it’s not Biggies “10 crack commandments”? Not on my watch. Time to write a stern letter to my representative.
Erect the 10 crack commandments outside of the Utah court houses and in schools.
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