r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 5d 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/
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u/Flanman1337 5d ago

If you let one, you gotta let them all. 

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u/Padhome 5d 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/cbbuntz 5d ago

You jest, but there's a lot of Hammurabi in Mosaic law

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u/Anthaenopraxia 4d 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.