Let’s talk about how fucked up Louisiana is

[Satchel 6908]

2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

This thread cracks me up.  Like Texas can talk shit about any other state when it comes to fuckeduppedness. 

Dayum Texas!

[Nice Guy Eddie 13415]

13 hours ago, bolverk said:

The first commandment always confused me a bit, even as a kid. It reads like a tacit admission that there are other gods, which checks out given that the Old Testament god was always petty, jealous, and angry. It kind of reminds me of a certain orange someone, which might explain why Evangelicals who favor the fire and brimstone god of the OT so much, worship Trump.

I'm far from a scholar on the topic but I gather that basically each group of people living at that time had their own god(s). Walk three hills over and they have a different religion and gods. Somehow the god of Israel became the popular one and the other faiths died out or were assimilated. 

[dcbc 14415]

29 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm far from a scholar on the topic but I gather that basically each group of people living at that time had their own god(s). Walk three hills over and they have a different religion and gods. Somehow the god of Israel became the popular one and the other faiths died out or were assimilated. 

Well, there are rules.  And, as a result, there tend to be a lot of people claiming to be a god.  

 

[Wally Fairway 5525]

15 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Isn’t this how Oklahoma ended up with a statue of satan on their state capitol ?

In Michigan it was a nativity scene that led to a snaketivity scene and then that was replaced by a goat. I am "proud" to say that the sponsor of the nativity scene was my State Senator, and prior to that he was the sheriff in the county in which I reside. He loved being bible thumping, but IMO he also loved the publicity of getting to defend having a religious symbol on public state owned property which led to the other non-Christian icons being allowed. 

spoilered to keep this from long-cat - but here are pictures/drawings of said items)

Spoiler

 

[RDCanecutter 26290]

14 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

This thread cracks me up.  Like Texas can talk shit about any other state when it comes to fuckeduppedness. 

Of course it can, when states (especially Confederate ones) manage to stay fucked up in unique and interesting ways.

I wouldn't think of it as a single scale of fuckeduppedness with clear winners and losers, but more like a buffet of many fuckedup yet distinct choices, a buffet with fat green flies buzzing from Mississippi to Florida and back over Bama to whatever part of Ohio is squabbling in a parking lot with West Virginia. A buffet pawed at by sticky kids and sprayed with sneezes by Aunt Rubella. A buffet inside a Golden Corral that was built on a nature preserve seized by eminent domain. 

[Pancho 44492]

Oh, man one of the authors of the bill on the 10 commands in the classroom is on CNN right now and she looks like she just stepped out of the Zeta house. She’s saying the 10 commands is a “historical document” because “in God we trust is on the dollar bill and Moses is in the Supreme Court.”

Lauren Ventrella

 

Boris: What would you do if someone who doesn’t believe in Christitanity doesn’t want to read that in the classroom?

Lauren: Then don’t look at it.

Boris:

[Pancho 44492]

Boris: What advice would you give to a teacher who is approached by a kindergartner who asks what adultery is?

Lauren: The teacher should tell them this is a historical document. 

 

 

Boris:

 

 

 

[miguelito 11220]

"Adultery is what Donald Trump does."

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

20 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Boris: What advice would you give to a teacher who is approached by a kindergartner who asks what adultery is?

Lauren: The teacher should tell them this is a historical document. 

Show me the original “document.”

[Nice Guy Eddie 13415]

3 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Show me the original “document.”

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

8 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Show me the original “document.”

It’s in the MAL shitter under the nuclear launch codes.

[hpslugga 4044]

47 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Boris: What advice would you give to a teacher who is approached by a kindergartner who asks what adultery is?

Lauren: The teacher should tell them this is a historical document. 

 

 

Boris:

 

 

 

I’ve seen so many people contend that the “Ten Commandments is a historical document,” and yet they can’t even for the life of them tell you what they are. 

[Biff Tannen 45500]

4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 Walk three hills over and they have a different religion and gods. Somehow the god of Israel became the popular one and the other faiths died out or were assimilated. 

Thank god you've god some gods, because we had these crap gods.  Jeff, the God of Biscuits.

[Satchel 6908]

43 minutes ago, miguelito said:

"Adultery is what Donald Trump does."

But then the teacher should be quick to point out the Trump’s was good adultery. 

[Biff Tannen 45500]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Moses is in the Supreme Court.”

wat

[HornOnTheBayou 8881]

1 hour ago, Satchel said:

But then the teacher should be quick to point out the Trump’s was good adultery. 

A lot of people are saying it was the best adultery.

[Satchel 6908]

3 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

A lot of people are saying it was the best adultery.

Some are saying they’ve never seen anything like it.

[DixonHur 11233]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

wat

He changed his name to Alito.

[Mo Horn 8807]

Someone should ask the lawmakers which of the two versions of the 10 commandments is the one that needs to be in schools? I guarantee they will have no idea what they're being asked. 

[Brisketexan 104644]

2 hours ago, Pancho said:

Oh, man one of the authors of the bill on the 10 commands in the classroom is on CNN right now and she looks like she just stepped out of the Zeta house. She’s saying the 10 commands is a “historical document” because “in God we trust is on the dollar bill and Moses is in the Supreme Court.”

Yes, lots of people can learn things from "historical documents."

[Dnaguy 11777]

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Show me the original “document.”

R/Bushlovers 

[4th&Five 41461]

[HornOnTheBayou 8881]

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19332]

3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

[Texas Jeff 1932]

6 hours ago, hpslugga said:

I’ve seen so many people contend that the “Ten Commandments is a historical document,” and yet they can’t even for the life of them tell you what they are. 

Most people, when challenged on what the ten commandments are:

1. Do not kill!

2. Do not steal!

.... uh ....

3. Oh yeah, no coveting!

.... uh ... well there are some others but America was founded on this stuff....

[hpslugga 4044]

26 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

Most people, when challenged on what the ten commandments are:

1. Do not kill!

2. Do not steal!

.... uh ....

3. Oh yeah, no coveting!

.... uh ... well there are some others but America was founded on this stuff....

Those probably would be the only three they could name…and they would still be wrong

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

29 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

Most people, when challenged on what the ten commandments are:

1. Do not kill!

2. Do not steal!

.... uh ....

3. Oh yeah, no coveting!

.... uh ... well there are some others but America was founded on this stuff....

About that last one, the full text of Exodus 20:17 says, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Deuteronomy 5:21 states, “Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

If they want to be biblically accurate then they should include the part about not coveting your neighbor’s slaves.

Edited June 21 by WhatTheBuck

[HenryJames 65890]

Right as Gov. Landry signs his 10 Commandments law, a child behind him faints (video) (msn.com)

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It was at this point in his Ten Commandment law-signing speech that a girl right behind him fainted and fell. But as others shuffled around to help her, the governor stuck to his holy guns in delivering his message. "If you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses," he said, before whipping out his pen and signing the bill.

Amusingly, a woman sitting next to Landry questioned his remarks, being that Moses actually received his laws from God, and was thus not the "original lawgiver." Not wanting to ruin his glorious moment, the governor gov-splained what he meant. "That's right, he got his commandments from God," he told her, as if that is what he meant all along.

10/10, no notes

[TexArcher 37529]

Louisiana is just Texas 2 years from now.

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

Danny Goeb is pissed that the coonasses got the drop on us.

 

[YGIFS 19449]

And if Texas would have been first, the first Lone Star State school to post the 10 Commandments---with the 'Thou Shall Not Kill' one in bold?  You guessed it, Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.  

Way to go Dan! 

[TeeDubya 3358]

23 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Show me the original “document.”

Could be rough on the useful idiots, since nothing in Hebrew Scriptures was written until King Solomon built the Temple and hired scribes.  
 

Their original documents are campfire stories. 

Edited June 21 by TeeDubya

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

8 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Louisiana is just Texas 2 years from now.

It's like an all seeing crystal shot glass.

I actually have no problem with the 10 commandments being displayed on someplace like the capital grounds or other "law" type of government building since they do form part of the western legal tradition how ever tenuous.

Classrooms, gtfo.

[Sheep Have Wool 1053]

27 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

I actually have no problem with the 10 commandments being displayed on someplace like the capital grounds or other "law" type of government building since they do form part of the western legal tradition how ever tenuous.

No. We don't typically display some sort of homage to the Twelve Tables or the Code of Justinian, and assholes will continue to use the legal precedent to cram their brand of worship any place they can. Ceremonial deism can fuck right off.

[speed817 19120]

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

5 hours ago, TeeDubya said:

Could be rough on the useful idiots, since nothing in Hebrew Scriptures was written until King Solomon built the Temple and hired scribes.  
 

Their original documents are campfire stories. 

Check your Bible. The original document was written on stone tablets by the hand of God himself. Those were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Find it and show me. Otherwise I say it’s all bullshit. 

[YGIFS 19449]

Well, we were gonna show it to you, but this British guy who looked Central/Western Asiatic but somehow still a Nazi, melted all over it and now it's in a warehouse somewhere under the supervision of 'Top Men' 

[elfenix 34182]

37 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Check your Bible. The original document was written on stone tablets by the hand of God himself. Those were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Find it and show me. Otherwise I say it’s all bullshit. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

13 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Louisiana is just Texas 2 years from now.

Yep, especially with the dismantling of public schools part. One thing that struck me when I first lived in Louisiana to work in my early 20s was how so many of my coworkers went to private schools from elementary through their high school years. Growing up in Texas, I always associated private school with rich kids, because, for the most, the private schools I was aware growing up in DFW were of the 20 to 30k a year variety. But after working their for a number of years it was clear that most of those private schools were just there for segregation purposes and the fact that Louisiana didn't fund their public schools for shit. A lot of the Louisiana private schools were nominal in their tuition cost and functioned as little more than day care centers.

Edited June 22 by Catdaddyhorn

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13551]

14 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Right as Gov. Landry signs his 10 Commandments law, a child behind him faints (video) (msn.com)

10/10, no notes

What are the sentencing guidelines for adultery?

[Gatorubet 30121]

 

On 6/20/2024 at 12:35 PM, Pancho said:

“Moses is in the Supreme Court.”

On 6/20/2024 at 1:36 PM, Biff Tannen said:

wat

Tuesdays for the fried chicken in the Supreme Court lunch room.  Nothing fancy.

[Biff Tannen 45500]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

 

Tuesdays for the fried chicken in the Supreme Court lunch room.  Nothing fancy.

Well, that is the day we eat the birds. 

[TeeDubya 3358]

4 hours ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Yep, especially with the dismantling of public schools part. One thing that struck me when I first lived in Louisiana to work in my early 20s was how so many of my coworkers went to private schools from elementary through their high school years. Growing up in Texas, I always associated private school with rich kids, because, for the most, the private schools I was aware growing up in DFW were of the 20 to 30k a year variety. But after working there for a number of years it was clear that most of those private schools were just there for segregation purposes and the fact that Louisiana didn't fund their public schools for shit. A lot of the Louisiana private schools were nominal in their tuition cost and functioned as little more than day care centers.

Same throughout “The South.”

“established 1954”

 

fucking racist fucksticks. 

Edited June 22 by TeeDubya

[TexPx 2319]

Check your Bible. The original document was written on stone tablets by the hand of God himself. Those were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Find it and show me. Otherwise I say it’s all bullshit. 

[Wally Fairway 5525]

On 6/20/2024 at 2:02 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Show me the original “document.”

I love the original documents argument, because it now means the letter to the Kansas Board of Education is in the same category, and schools should have renderings of the flying spaghetti monster in all classrooms. 

I've been touched by his noodly appendages

 

https://www.spaghettimonster.org/pages/about/open-letter/

[atomheartbevo 89456]

18 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

I love the original documents argument, because it now means the letter to the Kansas Board of Education is in the same category, and schools should have renderings of the flying spaghetti monster in all classrooms. 

I’ll compromise - they can post the “original documents”, but they have to be in the original language - Hebrew.

[tx 3 putt 76419]

On 6/20/2024 at 8:31 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

About that last one, the full text of Exodus 20:17 says, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Deuteronomy 5:21 states, “Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

If they want to be biblically accurate then they should include the part about not coveting your neighbor’s slaves.

 

aggie : so sheep are ok ??

[atomheartbevo 89456]

 

Louisiana is trying so hard to make a case that they aren’t racist or that this isn’t Christian Nationalist bullshit, and trying to frame it so survives future court challenges, and looking like fucking idiots in the process.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/us/louisiana-ten-commandments-schools/index.html

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Louisiana officials unveiled several posters of the Ten Commandments on Monday that could soon be placed in state classrooms and which feature House Speaker Mike Johnson, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The posters shown at Monday’s news conference are not the final options but instead represent potential ways for schools to follow the new law requiring all public school classrooms to put up a poster of the Ten Commandments, according to Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill.

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One of the posters, titled “The House of Representatives and the Lawgivers,” features the text of the Ten Commandments in between an image of a stone carving of “Moses the Lawgiver” and a photo of House Speaker Mike Johnson, who represents Louisiana.

Another poster features a photo of Ginsburg, the liberal Supreme Court justice who died in 2020, as well as her quote praising the world’s “four great documents,” including the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. The quote comes from an editorial she wrote for her school paper when she was 13 years old lauding the United Nations Charter.

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A third poster is titled “Ten (Duel) Commandments” and features an image of Moses next to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the “Hamilton” playwright and actor, dressed in the role of founding father Alexander Hamilton. “Ten Duel Commandments” is a song in the 2015 award-winning musical with advice on how to kill a rival in a duel, a riff on the Notorious B.I.G. rap song “Ten Crack Commandments” about dealing drugs.

Other potential posters include quotes from former Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “All of these posters illustrate that there are constitutional ways to apply this law,” she said.

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Speaking at the news conference Monday, Gov. Landry, a Republican, defended the Louisiana statute by saying “majority rules” and arguing it did not favor any one religion.

“The Ten Commandments is not symbolic of any one particular religion,” he said. “Many religions share and recognize the Ten Commandments as a whole. So really and truly, I don’t see what the big fuss is about.” To any nonreligious parents who disapproved, he offered this advice: “Tell the child not to look at it.”

 

 

 

[Satchel 6908]

Politically, it’s poor Texas.

[Jive Turkey 12568]

Wonder how many women will needlessly die because of this.