r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 3d ago
Religious leader wants to display Indian scriptures in Louisiana public classrooms
https://www.cbs42.com/regional/louisiana-news/religious-leader-wants-to-display-indian-scriptures-in-louisiana-public-classrooms/5.0k
u/SelectiveSanity 3d ago edited 3d ago
I expect Louisiana to react about the same as when a Hindu priest delivered the opening prayer in the US Senate.
Edit; Holy crap, its the same freaking guy!
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u/john_jdm 3d ago
As the Senate prepared for another day of debate over the Iraq war, Zed closed with, "Peace, peace, peace be unto all."
That bastard!! /s
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u/EtheusRook 3d ago
We like war in this country
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u/john_jdm 3d ago
Undoubtedly because we seldom have had to live in the place where the war happened, and not within living memory.
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u/EtheusRook 3d ago
That's the generous interpretation. My interpretation is that conservatives hate all roles of government except for when its murdering brown people everywhere.
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u/fang_xianfu 3d ago
I mean what is controlling a state even for if you can't order the deaths of a bunch of foreign people who talk funny and don't dress right and are the wrong colour?
Helps if you and your friends will sell them the bullets too!
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u/czs5056 3d ago
I mean what is controlling a state even for if you can't order the deaths of a bunch of foreign people who talk funny and don't dress right and are the wrong colour?
I demand we include people who have different god(s) in our list of people to kill.
/s
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u/dolphinvision 3d ago
And queers, and women..and you gotta remember this ideology is about putting down the 'other group' which is most of society.
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u/sw00pr 3d ago
My man, you were not alive in 2001. Self proclaimed liberals across the US were hounding for blood.
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u/changerofbits 3d ago
Yeah, we were founded on the “get the oil” philosophy of the Warlord Jesus “Fuck them all” Christ!
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u/uXN7AuRPF6fa 3d ago
Peace?! That’s anti-American! Won’t anyone think of the military-industrial complex?
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u/melody_magical 3d ago
"Freedom of religion" means freedom for my religion to oppress yours.
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u/MJOLNIRdragoon 3d ago
Painfully obvious to anyone who's been paying attention. Anyone else's religious freedom gets labelled as Christian oppression.
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u/SerenityTranquilPeas 3d ago
Right now you get a temporary Christian-pass card if you support Isreal as a Jewish person. Other than that, they are full of hate and will go right back to discrimitating against the Jews if their religion ever becomes inconvenient for them... "They are going to read from the TORAH for assembly?! Not in my Christian Minecraft server!"
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u/clonedhuman 3d ago
This guy is now on my list of rad fucking humans.
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u/SAGNUTZ 3d ago edited 2d ago
I came the the comments asking "Do I like this?" That is, in the way i like the Satanic temple doin it...and yes, i think so.
Edit: You know what would be a great idea imo? Lets gather up ALL the religions tenents on a poster. Or even a high school elective that studies all of religion and their differences. I wouldve chose that. Im sure there might be something wrong about that, that im not thinking of right now...
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u/SunBelly 2d ago
there might be something wrong about that
No. I think a comparative religion class would be great for public school classrooms. The world is shaped by billions of people of different faiths. We should learn about them. I learned a bit about different world religions in my Geography class my freshman year of high school and it really made me start thinking about my own religious beliefs and why I had them. I became a lot more open minded because of it.
Somehow, I don't think the Christian nationalists in this country would be too keen on their kids learning anything that might lead them to question religion though.
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u/SpleenBender 3d ago
Here's a link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/EZ9To30Hz7A?si=2mD42wWEWS58fcSn
So very disrespectful.
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u/Lord_Euni 3d ago
I like how no one seems to be batting an eye at the fact there is a fucking morning prayer on the schedule for the US Senate.
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u/Secure-Elderberry-16 3d ago
Not the US Senate, the Louisiana Senate. Big difference, still shit.
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u/MidlifeCrisisMccree 2d ago
“A Hindu clergyman made history Thursday by offering the U.S. Senate’s morning prayer,” is literally the first line of the article, dawg.
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u/DaveOJ12 3d ago
Edit; Holy crap, its the same freaking guy!
What are the chances?
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u/LotharVonPittinsberg 3d ago
Pretty good. The guy is essentially doing what The Satanic Temple does, except he actually believes in what he says instead of being an Atheist who uses religious laws to get around bigotry.
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u/Senzafane 3d ago
Good on him, the Satanic Temple has been doing it for a while but it has the word Satan attached to it, so it's an easier boogeyman to dismiss. If other religions start expressing their desire for religious freedom, the mask will very quickly fall off.
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u/thatweirdchill 3d ago
Can't wait for Lucien Greaves of the Satanic Temple to deliver an opening prayer to Satan in the Senate.
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u/JiveChicken00 3d ago
Apparently Jeff Landry is unfamiliar with the tale of Pandora’s Box.
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u/Isendal 3d ago
As someone who lives in Louisiana, fuck Jeff Landry. John Bell Edwards wasn't great but he wasn't this wanna be DeSantis. It's so infuriating living here and I can't afford to move.
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u/Flanman1337 3d ago
If you let one, you gotta let them all.
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u/Padhome 3d ago
Also this bullshit about the Ten Commandments being the “original law” when we all know it was the Code of Hammurabi. Kids today need to know how to handle their slaves and punish classroom thieves by chopping their hands off.
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u/BrainChemical5426 3d ago
If you want to
be an assholebe a bit pedantic it was the Code of Ur-Nammu. It says that any man who divorces his wife must pay her 1 mina of silver - unless of course, she has married before. Then it’s, uh, half a mina.Other than that it’s classic eye for an eye stuff.
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u/czs5056 3d ago
How much is a mina?
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u/BrainChemical5426 3d ago
Back then, probably about the value of several hundreds of dollars today. Maybe $400 or so?
Edit: But this was probably like more than the average monthly wage back then. So basically, a whole fuckin’ lot.
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u/Angry_Hermitcrab 3d ago
There's a whole lot of people that'd gladly give their spouse away for the low cost of a months salary.
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u/Oni_K 3d ago
Half.
(Eddie Murphy reference for those not in the know. NSFW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZW4eFErSzc)
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u/A_Rabid_Pie 3d ago
It's also full of fun stuff like the first building codes (if a building collapses, the builder is liable for damages), fair lending practices (debt payments are paused if a natural disaster ruins your crops), the original version of Miranda rights (the accused had the right to have the laws read to them), and much more.
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u/Mechapebbles 2d ago
The technology might have been more simplistic, but something modern people don't realize is that our ancient forbearers were just as inherently intelligent and capable of reason as we are. They were all fundamentally the same humans we are. With roughly the same wants, needs, aspirations, etc. It's really no surprise they thought up some pretty common sense ideas to keep civilization cohesive and civilized for it to have endured from their time on up through now.
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u/cbbuntz 3d ago
You jest, but there's a lot of Hammurabi in Mosaic law
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u/Anthaenopraxia 2d ago
Man it's almost like lawyers build on previous lawyers' work. Hammurabi built on previous rulers of that area who did the same. I'm sure up somewhere in heaven there's a goat herder from 10,000 years ago still malding about everyone copying his work without citing.
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u/jorrylee 3d ago
Whenever a friend will say something about bringing back prayer into schools, that’s exactly what I respond with, which god are we going to pray to? It has to be all or none. Funny enough, they actually take a moment to think and sometimes revise their stance. If you want everyone to pray, it might not end up being Jesus!
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u/StephaneiAarhus 2d ago
Bring up the Kamis !
Nothing like 800 millions Japanese deities to calm the shit down.
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u/ColdFusion363 3d ago
Yep. Including. Wait for it…….ISLAM!!!
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u/SaraSlaughter607 2d ago
Oh I'm excited for the TST Baphomet in every classroom!
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u/Chalkarts 3d ago
If every religion were to place their “commandments” whatever their equivalent may be framed on a wall together in a school, would it look insane?
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u/The_Tosh 3d ago edited 3d ago
If the seven Satanic Temple tenets were allowed to be posted, and the students contrasted the Ten Commandments against them, most would probably side with the Satanic Temple’s philosophy. 😂
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u/TocTheEternal 3d ago
Seriously, the Ten Commandments (like, the actual contents, not the symbolic position they represent to Christian supremacists) are incredibly lame. At best, a few are nice principles to live by, but hardly "laws". Others just codify incredibly basic, trivial principles that are shared by basically every culture in the world, ever, and aren't something anyone needs God's name on. And a bunch are just an insecure God insisting that he's amazing and demanding everyone pay attention to him.
As the "basis" for a legal system or code of ethics, they are one of the worst (or at least, weakest) ones I've ever seen in history. Not that anyone demanding that they get stuck up in courthouses or schools care literally at all about what they actually say
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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 3d ago
They're more compatible than American Christians might think.
The five pillars of Islam are to declare your faith, observe the 5 mandatory prayers, give charity to the poor, observe fasts and go on pilgrimage.
The three pillars or duties of Sikhism are to meditate on the nature of God, to work hard and honestly, and to share what you can with people who don't have,
The seven tenets of the Satanic Temple are also pretty great
etc, etc
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 3d ago
Praying for the Pastafarians to show up
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u/concious_marmot 3d ago
Satanists are really really really good at this game- cannot wait for them to start playing.
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u/yohohoanabottleofrum 3d ago
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/after-school-satan
They already playin. They're going to send chaplains to Florida schools too.
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u/BrainWav 3d ago edited 3d ago
They're also opening programs in OK for high schoolers to attend for credits, due to a recently-passed law there. That may also be why a law related to Catholic charter schools got shut down.
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u/TKDbeast 2d ago
The charter thing was so funny. This very enthusiastic woman presented the church’s plans for a Satanist school for the arts, to the council’s horror.
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u/concious_marmot 3d ago
Hail MFin' Satan! Good for them.
Satanists- turning trolling into an art.
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u/Snail_With_a_Shotgun 3d ago
"Trolling"? Oh no, they are just very enthusiastic about expressing their religious freedoms.
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u/DayTrippin2112 3d ago
This is it right here. Too many people think it’s Satan worship when their goal is freedom from religion.
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u/RedDirtNurse 3d ago
Member of TST here. I concur.
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u/DayTrippin2112 3d ago
We’re going to need everyone if we don’t want these people bringing bastardized sharia law here.
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u/concious_marmot 3d ago
Oh, I don’t mean that pejoratively.
But I do think it is some high-level, sophisticated, trolling.
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u/SaraSlaughter607 2d ago
Public Service Announcement:
The TST is the most incredible organization of secular activism and is unequivocally dedicated to 100% self-governance in bodily autonomy.
They are comprised of all avenues of spirituality, from agnostic to atheist to pagan to mystical and everything in between...
Wish they had more political influence
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u/EtheusRook 3d ago
Ramen
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u/Mediocretes1 3d ago
Sauce be with you.
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u/MakeChinaLoseFace 2d ago
I bless you in the name of the garlic, and the olive oil, and the fresh basil
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u/insecurestaircase 3d ago
I want to display the 7 tenets of the satanic temple is Louisiana classrooms
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u/wickedwomanest1981 2d ago
As a Louisiana citizen, I second this. It is AMAZING watching people argue over this here.
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u/therealdilbert 3d ago
7 tenets of the satanic temple
anyone disagree with them?
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u/The_Tosh 3d ago
Probably magas…and christians in general, at least if they had to choose between the seven tenets and ten commandments.
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u/RegularPotential24 2d ago
Looks legit tbh. Better than Christian stuff
I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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u/Sabeq23 2d ago
Paragraphs or bullet points would allow for easier reading.
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u/clicky_fingers 2d ago
I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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u/leostotch 2d ago
I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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u/SamCorenson 2d ago
I wish I could upvote this more.
But for real, I'm sure TST is working up a counter to the ten commandments in schools thing.
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u/broodkiller 3d ago
This reminded of this gem from a decade ago with a pagan opening prayer in Florida, and Republicans leaving in protest. The prayer is so cool though!
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u/Cassitastrophe 3d ago
Republicans leaving in protest
Name a more iconic duo than right-wingers and throwing hissy fits whenever anyone who isn't one of them gets the chance to speak. Never met a single one who didn't have a victim complex.
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u/DRACULA_WOLFMAN 3d ago
Yeah, for being the most outspoken followers of Jesus Christ, they really don't understand anything the man preached.
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u/thefuzzyhunter 3d ago
kind of a tautology imo, given what he said in Matthew 6 (the "don't worship publicly and ostentatiously" chapter)
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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 2d ago
Paulites. Those types were always more concerned with overthrowing Rome and establishing a Kingdom of God on earth. It's why they drool over the Vatican sanctioned crusaders.
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u/LotharVonPittinsberg 3d ago
Why do you think they talk so constantly about the horrible evil that is cancel culture? Every accusation is a confession.
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u/gandhikahn 3d ago
Pagan religious messaging is some of the best, I think that might be why abrahamics are so terrified of it.
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u/dudius7 2d ago
Abrahamics loathe the idea that we have the goodness we need within us to become the best versions of ourselves.
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u/Ven18 3d ago
That’s actually really cool. Might honestly take the structure and use it in a D&D game im running cause it would work great for some Druid societies focused on the elements
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u/Lord_Euni 3d ago
As long as the prayer will talk about the wise Alaundo, you should be good to go. Otherwise I will come seek you out and we'll have a long chat about your blasphemy.
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u/rileyjw90 3d ago
I want the Satanic Temple to insist on the 7 tenets to be in the classroom as well.
- One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
- The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
- One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
- The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
- Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
- People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
- Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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u/DaveOJ12 3d ago
That's perfect.
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u/IxI_DUCK_IxI 3d ago
Agreed! It’s nice to see another religion pick this up. The TST, who are atheists, are usually leading the charge on things like this without backup. Hopefully the TST will join in also to drive the point across.
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u/unposted 3d ago
Not just atheists. Many are, but people of all faiths are members of TST. Religious overreach threatens people of all faiths and beliefs.
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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 3d ago
100%. I'm religious and while I'm not a card-carrying member of TST or whatever, their activities are incredible and it's pretty impossible to argue with any of their seven tenets.
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u/BuildingWeird4876 3d ago
I can confirm, some people who attend the same synagogue as I do are members. Religious freedom is absolutely wonderful, but it needs to be for all religions, and people who don't believe anything.
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u/DerpEnaz 3d ago
I was honestly more surprised someone beat them too it. This is such an easy case
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u/HyruleSmash855 3d ago
I think they may not be doing anything since the ALCU already sued the state so a case is going already.
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u/infinitelunacy 3d ago
Sounds reasonable tbh. If you want to shove religion into people's faces, allow everyone's religion to be shoved in people's faces.
Go full-ass.
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u/nycdiveshack 3d ago
Now let’s have someone from Jainism teach them in Jainism there is a core belief that there is in fact no God. Jainism would just straight up be insane in any American school. A religion about non-violence, being a vegetarian (not a vegan), no God and equally as important as the first 3 peace.
Edit: I was born into Jainism however I don’t believe in it anymore, saying that before anyone thinks I’m endorsing this idea of Jainism in school because I’m Jain.
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u/Gromky 2d ago
Edit: I was born into Jainism however I don’t believe in it anymore, saying that before anyone thinks I’m endorsing this idea of Jainism in school because I’m Jain.
It wouldn't invalidate the idea even if you did still believe. If anything, the people pushing these things need reminders that other religions really do exist and it's not just atheists/agnostics who don't want to see Christianity forced into public schools.
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u/BringBackApollo2023 3d ago
Put them all up in the original languages. No English translations allowed.
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u/Lokarin 3d ago
Why aren't the 10 commandments in Greek (or whatever moses wrote in... Cuneiform Script B maybe?)
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u/trampolinebears 3d ago
Hebrew is what the 10 Commandments are written in. Given when they were most likely composed, Hebrew is probably their original language.
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u/questions0124j1 2d ago
Just to be a bit specific, the original language is biblical Hebrew- very similar to Hebrew, but it's like calling "Old English" the same as modern English. Even people in Israel who natively speak Hebrew, have to learn to read the Torah's version of Hebrew, and even some parts in Aramaic.
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u/BringBackApollo2023 3d ago
I guess the original OT was mostly Hebrew with a splash of Aramaic. Cite..
I generally prefer newer fiction with more pleasant characters.
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u/Lou_Polish 3d ago
I'm betting it was Papyrus, Ryan Gosling would probably know.
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u/zachtheperson 3d ago edited 3d ago
My guess is they're using the same protest method that The Satanic Temple does, i.e. play the "You're legally required to play fair with all religions, so if you want your bullshit passed, I guess you'll have to pass mine too," and often leads to them doing neither (which to be clear, is the goal, and is a good thing).
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u/LeftLimeLight 3d ago
The idiot republican governor and legislators that passed this nonsense bill into law have opened up the flood gates.
Haha MF'ers you probably didn't expect this, huh?
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u/TheOldGuy59 3d ago
That's what I've been saying, don't fight these bastard Republicans in Louisiana, pile on them. If the pseudo-Christians want to put their doctrine in schools, then EVERYONE gets to put their own doctrine in schools. Including the Satanic Temple. And Vodou! Go to Wikipedia some time and look up a list of religions and scroll down just reading the names of them all - JUST the names. It will take you awhile. And I think that since this is a GOP measure to put their fake brand of Christianity in schools, they should have to foot the bill for all faiths to put their doctrine in the schools as well.
Just wait until little Jimmy Boudreaux comes home one day and asks Mommy and Daddy why the first tenant of the Satanic Temple says for everyone to be good to each other, and then asks why the ten commandments doesn't have something like that in them. And then little Jimmy has questions about all the other faiths (including Vodou!) Then let the shit storm start. Mr. and Mrs. Boudreaux start screaming at their local GOP reps saying "YOU STARTED THIS!!!"
Sure. This doesn't mean that the next wave of Louisiana politicians will be democrats, they'll probably just elect in a new wave of scumbag Republicans. The new scumbags though might have learned a lesson about putting religion in school though, since they're replacing the idiots that tried that and it backfired.
Let 'em all in. Every last religion on the planet. Flying Spaghetti Monster too...
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u/AshuraBaron 3d ago
Shiva approves this message.
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u/v0x_p0pular 3d ago
Interestingly, Shiva has nothing to do with the Bhagavad Gita. The whole text is premised on the conversations between a warrior named Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna (the same one of the Hare Rama Hare Krishna fame). It's set against the backdrop of a war between Arjuna and his brothers on one side and his half-siblings on the other. The conversations pertain to Arjuna 's misgivings about the utter destruction of war and the misery of fighting and killing his own half-brethren. And Krishna's advice on the concept of "duty" as a dispassionate, rational and moral concept that all humans are beholden to so that good prevails over evil.
So, it is more a work on philosophy than on religion / God. As an agnostic, it's the only Hindu literature I would have some interest in and I have enjoyed the little bit of it that I've read.
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u/kamakamsa_reddit 2d ago
charioteer Krishna
You left one crucial detail, Krishna is the Avatar of Vishnu one of the 3 main Gods in Hinduism
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u/john_jdm 3d ago
I wish for this to cause lawmakers to "do the right thing" and disallow any religious messages in public schools, but at this point I'm thinking we're just going to end up with school walls being completely covered with every religion's bullshit messages.
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u/time2fly2124 3d ago
Teacher: "And now kids, let's go go outside to say thanks for today's blessed day from Abeguwo!"
Kid: but it's not raining.
Teacher: we'll use a sprinkler
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u/iamcts 3d ago
If the GOP loses the support of the ultra christian nationalists in the US their party would collapse. They gotta ride the dicks of the nutjobs to appease them.
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u/Aidian 3d ago
Well what else can you expect them to do?
Are they supposed to back some sort of “policy” that directly benefits their constituents instead of just creating more absurd, phantasmagoric culture wars whilst funneling all the money they possible can to the donor and owner classes?
How would they get rich through dismantling the government and social services, without their base catching on, by doing things that way? Do you expect them to work for a living, or pay attention to any sort of objective reality?
Preposterous twaddlecock.
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u/NotActuallyAWookiee 3d ago
Oh no, silly. Not that sort of freedom of religion. /s
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u/Sancticide 3d ago
All people have equal religious freedom, but some religions are more equal than others. /s
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u/standardtrickyness1 3d ago
Hail Superman, wearing tights. Clark Kent by thy name, one nation under Zod.
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u/_ohne_dich_ 3d ago
We all saw this coming. I wonder what The Satanic Temple has in store.
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u/MalazMudkip 3d ago
Some real heckin cool mugs in the merch store, check em out!
Sorry, had to take the opportunity to plug it, some of my favorite mugs come from The Satanic Temple
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u/nowhereman136 3d ago
I read the passed law, and suggesting the 10 Commandments be put up in Arabic or with a older version wouldnt work. The law does specify in english what words are to be used on the poster.
However, no where in the law does it forbit other religious text from joining the poster on the wall. If i were a teacher in LA, i would absolutly fill the wall with any and every (age appropriate) religious text i could find. Mormon, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddha, Tao, Satanism, and Pastafarianism are all going up on that wall
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u/JoshInWv 3d ago
I mean, it's fair, and LA can not say no according to the US Constitution (all things considered). I'm waiting for the Satanic Temple to want the same thing.
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u/Throwawayac1234567 3d ago
they will become hysterical once you have to put islamic scriptures in there as well.
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u/kmoonster 2d ago
Fight fire with fire.
And while we're at it, display in Hebrew and Sanskrit along with English
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u/boatloadoffunk 3d ago
That's up there with displaying the Ten Commandments or In God We Trust in Arabic script. I love it.
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u/OptiKnob 2d ago
Excellent!
And the church of the flying spaghetti monster ALSO wants their creed displayed.
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u/veryblessed123 3d ago
Right! He should. It's only fair afterall.
Oh wait, these Christian fundamentalists aren't interested in fairness or consistency. Silly me.
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u/robstercraws70 3d ago
Might as well. Before too long, all the different religions will be wallpapered all over each other like flyers on a light pole.
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u/blueflloyd 2d ago
This is the way...all of them should demand to have their religious axioms posted in every public school and public building
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u/yeontura 3d ago edited 3d ago
Schoolkids in Louisiana gonna read the Bhagavad Gita now
Edit: Also make plays based on Ramayana and Mahabharata