I think it would be funny if Jews lobbied to use these requirements to get schools to also display the 613 mitzvot. - ThreadSky

erinbiba.bsky.social • 253 days ago

I think it would be funny if Jews lobbied to use these requirements to get schools to also display the 613 mitzvot.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana becomes the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

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blank.org•253 days ago

And also carved in stone.

Right next to the Satanic Temple’s Bahomet statue.

vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•253 days ago

Oh, the Church of Satan is going to love this.

ruetha.bsky.social•253 days ago

I’m in for requiring the Delphic Maxims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims

jakei.bsky.social•253 days ago

also a good way to post some osha requirements like railings on balconies

erikcorley.bsky.social•253 days ago

I teach at an Orthodox Jewish high school. They have neither the 10 Pronouncements nor all 613 Mitzvot posted in the school.

lupuseverto.bsky.social•253 days ago

The problem is they didn't mandate any of the religious versions, they mandated the one from the old Charlton Heston movie. I don't think they intended to have the "it's a secular requirement" cover but that's what they'll argue in court. Expect batshit legal arguments.

aubreyplaysathing.bsky.social•253 days ago

the question I always have is which 10 commandments? If you actually read the Bible there are 3 completely different versions of the 10 commandments

doonethingforme.bsky.social•253 days ago

Would love to see Christian state legislators actually pick the 10 devarim out of a multiple choice lineup given that the best rabbinic explanation I've heard on this subject opened with an explanation that there is not universal agreement on what #1 even *is*

jazzpomegranate.com•253 days ago

yes i'm going to need a mural featuring the complete detailed description of the construction of the tabernacle, as well

erinbiba.bsky.social•253 days ago

These evangelical always claiming they love Jews they need to practice what they preach!

momus.bsky.social•253 days ago

“Do not ye deem, that I came to undo the law, or the prophets; I came not to undo the law, but to fulfill.” (Matthew 5:17)

start looking for chometz, mf’ers

jazzpomegranate.com•253 days ago

hate to be a pedant but paul addresses this in his epistle to the colossians and comes to the conclusion that gentiles shouldn't just start appropriating jewish cultural traditions

mariamwatt.bsky.social•252 days ago

Psh what does Paul know?

whyknot.bsky.social•253 days ago

Paul sucks, I don't know why anyone listened to him about anything

momus.bsky.social•253 days ago

should look this up because i’m annoyed to no end when the local evangelicals here walk around downtown blowing shofars

varinajr.bsky.social•253 days ago

Only if they include all the commentary.

taenia.bsky.social•253 days ago

With commentary

darthbluesky.bsky.social•253 days ago

it would be instructive to see how committed they are to the whole “judeo-christian” rhetoric erin lol

marlowechris.bsky.social•253 days ago

And the Satanic Temple's humanistic Seven Tenets
https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets

bhobgeary.bsky.social•253 days ago

I think it's pretty well understood that the "judeo-" in "judeo-christian" is silent.

erinbiba.bsky.social•253 days ago

Exactlyyyyyy

beaverstanacct.bsky.social•253 days ago

we are definitely going to find that out sooner rather than later:

https://forward.com/opinion/601837/tennessee-court-ruling-jews-abortion/

sweetinxs.bsky.social•253 days ago

Louisiana Christians

mgruar.bsky.social•253 days ago

I know that every time they're forced to acknowledge another religion, they back down from their public displays of Christian nationalism - but just this once I'd love for them to not be cowards and put them all up.

futuremonkey.bsky.social•253 days ago

I'm afraid I'm going to need the Nine Satanic Statements represented as well, because in this household we hail Satan.

https://www.churchofsatan.com/nine-satanic-statements/

jwesselhoff.bsky.social•253 days ago

Do they say whose commandments they have to be? What would to your Ten Commandments be darth?

mockwooloo.bsky.social•253 days ago

We can be fair to them and only enforce displaying the ones that can currently be performed in the absence of a Temple - bringing it down to a mere 271.

kbtibbs.bsky.social•253 days ago

Hoist them upon their own "Judeo-Christian"

brxyz.xyz•252 days ago

Trekkies should lobby to post the Rules of Acquisition

darkmane.bsky.social•253 days ago

That's basically what the Satanic Temple has been doing in Iowa

frish.bsky.social•253 days ago

Unfortunately in this case they're using the argument "It's not bc of religion, it's bc of the Ten Commandments historical importance to the Founding Fathers."

As though Benji Freaklin wasn't a running commentary on how to violate them.

surfingthepast.bsky.social•253 days ago

It literally is irrelevant if it influenced the founders, who created a constitution that forbade exactly this practice. Also the Ten Commandments were not important in the development of their political ideology. Thats rubbish

frish.bsky.social•253 days ago

You're preaching to the choir here, man. But this is Louisiana, where Reps have had a stronghold on the legislature and state supreme court for decades. Things like "history" and "precedent" and "the First Amendment" mean nothing down there.

darkmane.bsky.social•253 days ago

There is still the pesky First Commandment 'Thou shall't not have no God before me'

frish.bsky.social•253 days ago

"bUt It'S aN iMpOrTaNt HiStOrIcAl DoCuMeNt."

darkmane.bsky.social•253 days ago

So is the Rosetta stone... And it's basically as receipt

frish.bsky.social•253 days ago

Yeah except it's not allegedly important to MURICAN history.

lawtalkinguy.bsky.social•253 days ago

Would be hard to remember them all. Maybe just require everyone wear tallit.

vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•253 days ago

🤣

silvermansecurity.bsky.social•253 days ago

That's not a display. That's wallpaper.

silvermansecurity.bsky.social•253 days ago

Or a really big mural.

kevdog.bsky.social•252 days ago

Church of Satan is already on the case.

velveteenrabbi.bsky.social•253 days ago

I am trying to imagine how long a hallway one would need for this purpose...

gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social•253 days ago

I want them to display the entire Babylonian Talmud.
Laminated.

billstewart.bsky.social•253 days ago

That goes in the library, which tends to have lots of empty spaces available in the shelves, if it hasn't been banned entirely.

erinbiba.bsky.social•253 days ago

If you wanted to make it legible, hilariously long!

projectenigma.bsky.social•253 days ago

The whole sefer hachinuch at least. What good are the mitzvos without at least a bit of explanation...

velveteenrabbi.bsky.social•253 days ago

I also kind of want to insist that if they're going to display the 10C, they ought to be in their original language. If they like "originalism" so much, let them learn to read Hebrew.

projectenigma.bsky.social•253 days ago

I thought for them the KJV is the original /s

erinbiba.bsky.social•253 days ago

😂 perfect

billstewart.bsky.social•253 days ago

You need the "NO GRAVEN IMAGES" part in plain English.
(Putting it in Hebrew still lets them have it on display for profane political purposes and reduces the chances that anybody'll read it and call them on their violations of it.)

widgett.bsky.social•253 days ago

Can we hand them the list in Hebrew and see how far along the process we can get before they realize it’s actually a ten step recipe for matzoh ball soup where step one says “If you can read this, say nothing”?

erinbiba.bsky.social•253 days ago

Hahahahaha

velveteenrabbi.bsky.social•253 days ago

The choir director at my wee shul often wears this t-shirt and it makes me laugh every time https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/fake-Kabbalah-symbol-solomon-seal-for-tomato-soup-and-garlic-bread-by-remerasnerdas/145607617.FB110

sethjmeyer.bsky.social•253 days ago

OMG I love that shirt!

widgett.bsky.social•253 days ago

That is Fantastic.

satyric.bsky.social•253 days ago

And a mezuzah in every classroom doorway.

ddelgadovive.bsky.social•253 days ago

I insist that they display every different enumeration of them--my religion demands open disagreement!

ddelgadovive.bsky.social•253 days ago

Actually, I guess we could say the same about the 10 Commandments!

kevincarson1.bsky.social•252 days ago

The version of the Ten Commandments they're mandating isn't even in the Bible -- it's the one from the Charleton Heston movie.

hipopener.com•253 days ago

ALL THE SCHOOLS

pfessenbecker.bsky.social•253 days ago

Without any irony isn't this kind of legal stuff exactly what the Satanic Church exists for? Couldn't some sufficiently ironic California district quick mandate murals of the Prince of Evil to remind everyone of the the establishment clause?

pfessenbecker.bsky.social•253 days ago

ah, everyone on Bluesky already had this idea, apologies for commenting before reading the replies.

rebelipar.bsky.social•253 days ago

If Bluesky has a type, it's People Who Like It When The Satanic Temple Fights Against Weird Christians

freddyb-aviation.bsky.social•253 days ago

Well it kind of opens the door right? For any religion

smolanalyst.bsky.social•253 days ago

The defiling nature of the eight swarming species (e.g. geckos and chameleons) makes it feel ready-made for the Southeast; obviously this is intended by God to be posted throughout Louisiana.

michanconnor.bsky.social•253 days ago

Sam Alito already has that covered in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum. Of course that ruling shielded a government from being compelled to display alternate privately funded religious monuments, but if anybody thinks it can’t be stretched to “Louisiana can establish religion” I’ve a bridge for sale