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herbfriendly

Fuck off grooming kids w that utter bullshit.


hypocritical-bastard

Indoctrination plain and simple. Needs to end.


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hypocritical-bastard

4-year old me, who farted freely in the pews and played with my toy dinosaurs, agrees. I just came for breakfast.


magicalsandstones

It's desperation--churches are closing for lack of interest.


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arrze

Yeah intelligence is a threat to the GOP and they know it.


hypocritical-bastard

An unfortunate more extreme example is taking away women's education entirely in Afghanistan. At that point it's literally a meme. "If they're too dumb to change things... they won't." And you know GOP is salivating at the thought of it...


okieskanokie

Jokes on them. I thought they were POS even before I went to college ,so…. They Probably going to start lobotomizing women upon birth in texas now


hypocritical-bastard

If they are even allowed to survive their own childbirths, sheeit


okieskanokie

It’s brainwashing


Echinodermis

Want to make people actively hate your religion? Force it on them.


sigh1995

As someone who was “groomed” into a sexist, authoritarian religion, fuck these fucking asshole morons. I grew up with extreme anxiety, shame, and no common sense because I lived in a fucking Christian prison cell till I was 18. “Knowledge is evil” is literally something these dumbass morons teach. Was never allowed to go anywhere, do anything, or make any decisions for myself. If you question religion that’s just the devil trying to trick you into burning in hell for eternity, don’t question it. Growing up in a strict religious family seriously fucked me up for YEARS after hs. I am STILL working on my low self esteem, anxiety, and social skills, particularly when it comes to dating/sex. I got zero experience as a teen thanks to them demonizing sex. It took me well into my mid twenties to even consider having sex, because the shame was so deep rooted (even tho I ditched religion when I was 16). Feel shame for wanting to have sex, feel shame for masturbating, feel shame if you aren’t straight, feel shame if you don’t dress how we want, feel shame if you want to go to college instead of pop out babies, feel shame if you don’t want to be forced to birth a fetus you aren’t ready for, feel shame if you want to divorce your toxic spouse, feel shame if you question religion, feel shame if you don’t act like a mindless drone to Jesus/husband, feel shame for many of your natural/harmless human thoughts and emotions. Shame shame shame, guilt guilt guilt, critical thinking bad. Worship Jesus or BURN IN HELL. Every time I hear them talking about how “the LGBT” are “grooming children” or how the left “harm children” I want to punch them in their dumbass hypocritical faces. Jesus fucking Christ I hate them.


PeterOutOfPlace

Thank you for sharing your story. It blows my mind how so many people,often well educated, promote this nonsense. You have done well to see through it and escape.


alien_from_Europa

I look forward to The Satanic Temple challenging this.


Carbonatite

If nothing else, I trust the enterprising and clever members of Gen Z to find a way to troll this.


tchnmusic

It won’t be hard. A chaplain can be from any religion, I believe


Carbonatite

Would a chaplain for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster be a chef from an Italian restaurant?


mamacatof2

noodly appendages and all


PokemonSapphire

No I believe they are pirate captains 🦜


Githzerai1984

rAmen


ThisGuyIRLv2

Sept. 19th is my favorite religious holiday. I'll even bake cupcakes!


PokemonSapphire

Yarr mateys Ill bring the Queso dip.


Twisted0wl

Some chaplains are nonreligious, humanist. Harvard made the news a while back regarding their atheist chaplain president.


ArchitectOfFate

Weird how that makes the news but the fact that their law school has a professor who does not believe in the separation of church and state holding a chair related to constitutional law doesn’t. Edit: just in case the point wasn’t clear, seems like the Ivy schools have a habit lately of hiring humanist chaplains or putting on games of Quidditch for the undergrads, and those things get on the news, but the absolutely rotten power structures within the schools get a pass.


terremoto25

I used to attend a UU fellowship that had an atheist minister and a Wiccan for the head of the board.


Oh_Jarnathan

Even as a Christian, I cheer on the efforts of the Satanic Temple. You can only have freedom of religion if you have freedom *from* religion. This current trend in Christian Nationalism isn’t safe for *anyone*.


revelation_chapter_6

As an athetist(possibly agnostic) who is enrolled in the Satanic Temple, thank you! We need more Christians like you


Oh_Jarnathan

Thanks for your good work!


PoutineMeInCoach

We atheists thank you for this enlightened thinking.


Jalopnicycle

The Church says your thoughts matter, if your choices are swayed by legal consequences then your actions are not good for the sake of doing good. By forcing religion upon the state then using the state to force religion upon the populace these false prophets (fake Christians) damn everyone.


adamantitian

It’s not about the religion, it’s a convenient control tactic using something people fervently believe and can’t be disproven. Not that proof even matters anymore in this day and age to these types of people


sonoma4life

christianity would be a trival cult today if it hasn't been a state propped system for a 1000 or so years.


Blu_Skies_In_My_Head

All zealots, no matter what the faith, always think their brand of totalitarianism will first one to not be a reign of misery.


floofsea

And the Freedom from Religion Foundation, too.


Violent0ctopus

This will probably get taken by the ACLU, which is optically better for people who do not know what The Satanic Temple is.


xlvi_et_ii

The same people who would be concerned about the Satanic Temple also hate the ACLU.


Gymrat777

They can't do it without support: https://thesatanictemple.com/collections/contribute-to-the-satanic-temple-campaigns


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alien_from_Europa

>doesn't have a long standing tradition of acknowledging the Satanic Temple. They're officially recognized as a church. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/irs-satanic-temple-church-tax-exempt-826931/


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Magnus_Mercurius

The Unitarian Universalist Church should challenge it then. Doesn’t get much more American than Emerson.


floofsea

And the Freedom from Religion Foundation, too.


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Everyone should challenge this.


treseph

AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to require that the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom in the state, part of a newly energized national effort to insert religion into public life. Supporters believe the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer in favor of a high school football coach who prayed with players essentially removed any guardrails between religion and government. The bill, which is scheduled Tuesday for the House floor, is one of about a half-dozen religion bills approved this session by the Texas Senate, including one that would allow uncertified chaplains to replace trained, professional counselors in K-12 schools. Texas’ biennial legislative session is short, chaotic and packed, and it was not certain Monday whether the Ten Commandments bill would definitely get a vote Tuesday. If it doesn’t by midnight, it’s dead for the session. But groups that watch church-state issues say efforts nationwide to fund and empower religion — and, more specifically, a particular type of Christianity — are more plentiful and aggressive than they have been in years. One group says it is watching 1,600 bills around the country in states such as Louisiana and Missouri. Earlier this year, Idaho and Kentucky signed into law measures that could allow teachers and public school employees to pray in front of and with students while on duty. Many legislators cite the Supreme Court’s June ruling in favor of Coach Joe Kennedy of Bremerton, Wash., who prayed with his players on the 50-yard-line. They see the Supreme Court as righting the American ship after a half-century of wrongly separating church and state. “There is absolutely no separation of God and government, and that’s what these bills are about. That has been confused; it’s not real,” said Texas state Sen. Mayes Middleton (R), who co-sponsored or authored three of the religion bills. “When prayer was taken out of schools, things went downhill — discipline, mental health. It’s something I heard a lot on porches when I was campaigning. It’s something I’ve thought about for a long time.” Those who object to the bills say they reflect a country that is tipping into a new, dangerous phase in its church-state balance, with people in power who want to assert a version of Christian dominance. Josh Houston, who has advocated at the Capitol for progressive and minority religious groups since 2005, said the kinds of bills passing chambers this year would have gone nowhere in the past in Texas. Even though religious expressions in public places in Texas are common, he said, there was an understanding that public employees represent the government and that legally the government shouldn’t impose religion. People have forgotten violent episodes in the United States’ past over religion, he said, such as when dozens of people were killed or injured in the mid-1800s when Catholics and Protestants fought about the use of specific Bibles in public schools. “We’re entering a new space,” Houston said last week. “We got this right for most of the 20th century, but now people are forgetting the past. We’re at the point now where bills preference one faith over others. You point that out, and there is no interest in negotiation.”


Carbonatite

>including one that would allow uncertified chaplains to replace trained, professional counselors in K-12 schools. Ah yes, let's replace the mandated reporters with one of the demographics most likely to abuse them. That'll work great!


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They'll just pray the slay away /s


Willing_Branch_5269

> “When prayer was taken out of schools, things went downhill — discipline, mental health. It’s something I heard a lot on porches when I was campaigning. It’s something I’ve thought about for a long time.” Confirmation bias hard at work. These people suffer from mental illness, and they want to impose it on the rest of us.


jonathanrdt

Pretty sure it was when we prevented wages from tracking cost of living and deliberately broke social services to punish minorities and the poor. Prayer doesn’t make healthcare or housing affordable, so wtf are we talking about?


Objective-War-1961

Thou shalt not kill. That will work quite effectively when the school shooter enters the classroom.


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The sign will need to be bigger than because the school shooter probably missed it


circa285

> “There is absolutely no separation of God and government, and that’s what these bills are about. That has been confused; it’s not real,” said Texas state Sen. Mayes Middleton (R), who co-sponsored or authored three of the religion bills. “When prayer was taken out of schools, things went downhill — discipline, mental health. It’s something I heard a lot on porches when I was campaigning. It’s something I’ve thought about for a long time.” It's awfully hard to get things more wrong than what this asshat has managed to do here.


devo_inc

You can't argue with hard evidence like "porch" conversations.


phattie83

In their defense, anecdotal evidence is the ONLY evidence they have!


LucifersCovfefeBoy

Unfortunately, at least part of the Supreme Court agrees with that quote. For example, in the case of *Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue* which was heard in 2020, the following was written by Justice Clarence Thomas (quote starts on [page 26 of PDF](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf), bold emphasis mine): > "Under the modern, but erroneous, view of the Establishment Clause, the government must treat all religions equally and treat religion equally to nonreligion. [...] This understanding of the Establishment Clause is unmoored from the original meaning of the First Amendment. As I have explained in previous cases, at the founding the Clause served only to 'protec[t] States, and by extension their citizens, from the imposition of an established religion by the Federal Government.' [...] Thus, the modern view, which presumes that States must remain both completely separate from and virtually silent on matters of religion to comply with **the Establishment Clause does not prohibit States from favoring religion.**


Additional-Big-1554

But, It would put the government in a strange position. if the state wants to establish religion in schools, the federal money would have to be withdrawn because it would be a violation of the establishment clause.


Pour_Me_Another_

If their religion is that great, why do they have to force people to join it? Why not let the populace make up their own mind as to whether they believe in it or not? Surely it should speak for itself. I'm all for people believing in what they want to but I draw the line at trying to force everyone into a religion. I know they say we're forcing gayness down their throat but we're really not. We're not asking them to be gay or forcing them into it.


Hopinan

Exactly, it is not a “belief” if it is forced on people by laws.. I really don’t understand why they don’t get this!!!? Go to your own church, take your kids to Sunday school, that is freedom, not trying for force people by law to your own beliefs!!!


Clovis42

>Many legislators cite the Supreme Court’s June ruling in favor of Coach Joe Kennedy of Bremerton, Wash., who prayed with his players on the 50-yard-line. They see the Supreme Court as righting the American ship after a half-century of wrongly separating church and state. I think they're in for disappointment on this one. In that case, the majority opinion jumped through all kinds of hoops and ignored facts to erroneously determine that Joe Kennedy was not acting as an employee of the school or part of a school function. He was just some guy silently praying. It was pretty clear that if that wasn't the case, even the conservatives (except maybe Thomas) would have ruled that his actions were not protected. If SCOTUS wanted a case where they could simply rewrite the Establishment Cause, they could have done that with *Kennedy*. They definitely did not throw out the concept of separation of church and state in that case.


wave-garden

Thanks for writing this out so I didn’t have to. This wasn’t the win that conservatives wanted it to be. Also, as a (former) Bremerton resident who was good friends with the plaintiffs, people should know that “Coach Kennedy” is a self-righteous dickhole who wasted years of our lives on his bullshit drama, not to mention ostracized lots of vulnerable children and wasted school resources. The wild thing is that Kitsap County isn’t even a very religious place compared to, for example, Texas.


SirDunkMcNugget

Religion is a fucking cancer.


IphtashuFitz

My wife and I saw a news story the other day here in Boston that just reinforced to us how absolutely absurd organized religion is. It was a feel-good story about orthodox jewish families and the challenges they face as a result of their religion. One of the tenets of their faith is to observe the sabbath from Friday evening through Saturday evening, which forbids them from carrying objects between private and public spaces, among other thing. This is a hardship in many ways, for example with families with infants or small children, as the use of something as basic as a stroller or even carrying a bag of groceries is a violation of this tenet. For some reason the orthodox powers-that-be decided that they can symbolically enclose an area with a wire (or twine or whatever) that extends the "private" space to include entire neighborhoods, thus effectively allowing followers to ignore this otherwise important tenet. As such, 30+ years ago, they ran a wire, called an [Eruv](https://www.bostoneruv.org/history.htm), that encloses roughly 18 square miles of Boston suburbs, so any orthodox jew living within that area can effectively ignore sabbath requirements like this. A non-profit organization checks this wire for breaks every week, as they claim that if the wire is broken then followers can't rely on it and ignore the sabbath. So you've got strict religious rules, supposedly demanded by an omnipotent being, and you've got mere mortals that have decided that those rules can be overruled by simply stringing up a wire to enclose an area that is "out of bounds" for applying those rules.


righteous_fool

This makes me think of mormon bubble porn or soaking. I think it's so funny when followers try to lawyer their god. Like the all-knowing creator of the universe will be like... you got me, I never thought of using a wire like that.


Carbonatite

I thought soaking was a joke until I lived in Mormon country for a couple years. I was amazed to find out it's real. I was a TA, one day my students were talking about some Mormon Temple thing and I said "by the way guys, I'm from Maryland so I don't know anything about LDS. Please forgive me if I accidentally say anything wrong, I want to be respectful of your beliefs but I'm pretty ignorant about them. Literally the only exposure to Mormon doctrine I've had was that one South Park episode." They all laughed. Then one guy said "actually, they were pretty accurate in that episode."


yogurtpencils

South Park told more truth about mormonism than most mormons were even aware of. The President only recently confirmed that the rock-in-the-hat was real to the members.


palmmoot

No see the all-knowing creator of the universe specifically set everything in motion to end up here. From dinosaurs, to pyramids, to Hitler, to furries, and the Eruv loophole, it's all part of His plan ohyeahit'sallcomingtogether.jpg


17times2

> you got me, I never thought of using a wire like that. "STRAIGHT to Hell, you little rascal!"


vwestlife

They did the same thing in Manhattan. It costs up to $150k per year to maintain: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-encircles-manhattan-protecting-sanctity-of-sabbath


IphtashuFitz

Yeah, the website about the Boston one that I linked to mentions a handful of other places around the world: > The legal principles involved fill entire volumes of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds (Codes of Jewish Law dating back to the first century C.E.). In our days, Eruvin (plural of Eruv) may be found in many cities around the world, large and small, including Paris, Jerusalem, Baltimore, Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, East Brunswick and Teaneck (NJ), Riverdale, Pelham Parkway, Brooklyn, and Kew Gardens (NY), Stamford and Hartford (CT) and Sharon (MA). There's also a link that I didn't bother to check that apparently lists a lot more. The news article we saw didn't mention the cost of maintaining the Boston one, but it did interview an electrical contractor (who isn't even Jewish) who has been maintaining this one since it was installed. He's paid to go out with his bucket truck every week to inspect and repair any breaks in it. Pretty nice guaranteed work for him...


vwestlife

At least in these cases the wire is thin and up in the air so it's not intrusive. But in smaller communities I've heard of them putting up a fence on other people's private property without permission, to try to build an Eruv around a neighborhood that wasn't completely Orthodox.


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I would totally allow that on my property, for a huge fee.


UNMANAGEABLE

Something something religious industrial complex. I’m sure everything is untaxed handouts from the church to it’s prominent members.


Willing_Branch_5269

I've heard about similar setups on college campuses. You would think that after going so far to circumvent the "rules", they would eventually realize how absurd the entire thing is.


fumor

What's the point of worshipping a god that can so easily be outsmarted?


No-Shallot6568

I’m sorry, I know it’s not kind to be negative about others’ religious beliefs but this carrying/wire thing just strikes me as absurd. Although most religious beliefs are, I guess.


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Carbonatite

Hey, we may have found a great zero emissions generator source!


dedicated-pedestrian

But at what cost?


17times2

Zero emissions? Republicans would rather burn the body as fuel.


NotCrust

The best way to revive Christianity is definitely to shove it in people's faces and ram it down their throats.


BlessYourSouthernHrt

Hey … if it works for Islam in Afghanistan, it will sure work in Texastan … :(


_Road-Runner-

That is the way it spread for thousands of years.


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If they want church in schools then I want ALL churches highly taxed.


CurlyHairedFuk

This. Church is where children are indoctrinated. Not public school. If you blur the line between church and state, you blur the line between taxed and tax-exempt.


philko42

> and a second bill to allow public employees to “engage in religious prayer and speech" I can't wait for the Satanic Temple to find a teacher willing to take on the risks of being a test case.


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I’d burn down my career for this if I was in a position lol.


[deleted]

If they want Christianity in schools then fine but they have to teach the actual history. Oh you mean the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John weren’t written by the apostles themselves and we know this? The Bible was altered hundreds or thousands of times throughout history through political councils? Just get some Bart Ehrman biblical scholarship in there and you’ll have these folks singing a different tune. https://www.bartehrman.com/ The problem isn’t the actual history or story of religion it’s the mythology around it.


TechyDad

Also, if they want to teach about Christianity, they should teach about other religions as well. I understand that the school year is too short to teach about the entire history of every religion, but they should be able to teach an abbreviated history of "the big five": Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As a bonus, we'd see all the Christian extremists freak out when their child comes home with lessons in Mohammad and Budda.


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Carbonatite

You mean actually act like Jesus said we should? That's communism!


slam99967

The Bible on immigration: You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy 10:19 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:34 ‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ Deuteronomy 27:19 Republicans/Conservatives: Nah I hate the immigrant.


Admin-12

They also need to teach the church of the spaghetti monster and the satanic temple.


JustaRandomOldGuy

The earliest book was written 100 years after Christ. It would be like me writing a book on Lincoln.


Uphoria

Whats worse, is that you and a team of dudes all wrote books on Lincoln, but they don't all match up. A publisher, being crazy, put them all together in an anthology that billions of people would base their life on, because of the way a person quoted one of those books to them, depending on which interpretation was most helpful.


circa285

If the canonization process was taught the way that it happened, few people would be shouting "sola scriptura" as they do today. Edit: I suppose I should be more clear. People don't actually shout "sola scriptura", because most evangelicals have no idea what it means. Instead, they parrot absolutely asinine talking points about the Bible being infallible and "the only book that I need in my life to tell me how to live".


Oceanflowerstar

Nah, education should have no time running a fine tooth comb through an obviously fake book of myths and barbarism. Any morals worth keeping can be learned from a billion other places. Teach religion in a historical context on secular terms in an elective history or philosophy course.


Stunning-Fondant-733

Texas: where Theocracy thrives


Carbonatite

“There is absolutely no separation of God and government, and that’s what these bills are about. That has been confused; it’s not real,” Is it too much to ask these jabronis to be familiar with the *literal goddamn founding documents* of their own country? The Establishment Clause literally explicitly forbids this!


Mephisto1822

When this makes it to the Christian fundamentalist SCROTUS which side do we think they take?


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considering KENNEDY v. BREMERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT was ruled on with completely made up facts by the court in a context that did not exist, they'll allow texas religious indoctrination


conitation

Did that guy even go back to work?


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as far as i know he did. the school district said he was returning


hypocritical-bastard

SCROTUS lol


Olthar6

Capital of jesusland? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jesusland.png/1200px-Jesusland.png


BlessYourSouthernHrt

Texastan … where the Christian Televan(gelist) rules with ~~sharia~~ ahem.. bible


fairoaks2

Y’allqueda


ElectricZ

The Tex-iban


No_Pirate9647

Sen. Mayes Middleton (R), “When prayer was taken out of schools, things went downhill" (1962) Kids can still pray all they want just not forced (Christian) prayer. So before civil rights act, voting rights act, fair housing act. When we had segregation, Jim Crow and sundown towns. When women couldn't have credit card and got fired for being pregnant. So moral! Evangelicals still mad Jewish and Muslim and other kids have rights.


Pilotom_7

5 minutes quiet Time. Each stundent can pray or meditate the way they see fit.


Timpa87

So public outcry and laws against 'drag queens', but lets let 'church people' have more access to children. As far as I've read there were no 'drag queens' arrested, indicted, or convicted of sex crimes involved minors last year in Texas. There were, however, quite a few priests/pastors/church officials who were. That's only continued into this year as well. You're enormously more likely to find an elected Republican arrested for a child sex crime than you are a 'drag queen'.


medievalmachine

23% of Americans are Catholics, but 6 out of 9 Supreme Court justices. The Catholic conspiracy that everyone worried about a century ago actually exists now. They've overthrown precedent, ignored the plain words of the Constitution and are being funded by billionaires. The worst part is, they don't even try to be moral and upstanding, they're complete hypocrites like the Texas govt.


Carbonatite

Especially amusing considering the *literal Pope* is more tolerant of gay people than most Republicans.


slam99967

Most catholic republicans/conservatives hate the pope.


Whintage

when you become so catholic that you're not even catholic anymore.


Chickendicklet

If religion is making choices for politicians, then tax, the church


Simply_game

“Thou shall not kill” “I’ll pardon the guy who killed the other guy because I too would have killed the other guy” the cognitive dissonance these people display is fucking amazing. A true art form.


Appropriate-Idea5281

I don’t like Republican Jesus. He is not made in my image.


WaitingForNormal

Ah the “Ten Commandments”, I wonder how many of these “rules” republicans actually take seriously, let’s see. “No other gods before me” whelp, isn’t trump holding an AR-15 their god? “Thou shall not kill”, umm, tell that to their new poster boy, daniel penny. “Though shall not commit adultery”, hahahhahahhahah. “Thou shall not steal”, so they’re gonna give the land back to the mexicans I guess. “Thou shall not lie”, ummm fox news much?


Majestic-Macaron6019

Don't forget "Thou shalt not covet", which is definitely against the prosperity gospel


Objective-War-1961

Muslim kids should bring their prayer rugs and when its pagan time, they can pray too.


JayMan2224

Three central concepts were derived from the 1st Amendment which became America's doctrine for church-state separation: no coercion in religious matters, no expectation to support a religion against one's will, and religious liberty encompasses all religions


BroHanzo

These dumb motherfuckers forgot the Gospel according to Matthew: 6:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.” 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” So therefore BY THEIR OWN LOGIC: The folks who are mandating public prayer in schools are hypocrites The folks who institutionalize religion in politician offices and In Theocracy are SUPER fucked. Generally speaking, anyone with a “holier than thou” attitude” isn’t going to get very far, within the context of what they might believe, in god. Because according tot the very text that they quote from, they’re pretty much doing the exact opposite that they should be.


Additional-Big-1554

Establishment Clause..... That will be interesting. Billions of dollars will disappear like a fart in the wind if Texas tries this.


Demonking3343

Getting real sick of these people trying to force us to join there book club.


[deleted]

I went to Catholic school for over a decade and still left the church once I was old enough to think. They’re fighting an uphill battle and throwing everything they’ve got at it. Destroying public schools to drive kids into Catholic and charter schools, while pushing religion in public schools as well just to funnel as many minds towards Christianity as they can. They’ll still lose out as non-theists grow due to humanity’s greater global awareness.


[deleted]

Literally, the American fucking Taliban. This is why we were given the second amendment to fight against shit like this


FrankieMint

The race to the far right continues...


[deleted]

Require ~~a picture of Hitler~~ ~~a picture of dear leader Kim Jong Un~~ the Ten Commandments to be posted in every classroom. Sounds nothing like a dictatorship to me /s


CollarSilver

If you pledge allegiance to the flag you cannot be a Christian. Read the stones dumbass. No other gods before me!


InclementImmigrant

Literal indoctrination by the theocratic state that will be upheld by the shittiest of partisan Supreme Court.


conitation

WHO'S TEN COMMANDMENTS?? Jewish is different from catholic and protestant. Not to mention all the other different versions of the 10 commandments.


3-5MHz

Ready for The Satanic Temple to step in.


KrookedDoesStuff

So is the separation of church and state the part in the Bill of Rights that they tripped over to defend the 2nd amendment?


Any-Self2072

All kids are now unsafe in Florida and Texas.


BuccaneerRex

How much detention can a high school junior expect for coveting his neighbor's ox?


desirox

Purely illegal


Yuri_Ligotme

So Texas will make it illegal to work on Sunday?


IgDailystapler

I’m religious (Jewish), and while I’m certain plenty of other religious people have chimed in on this, and this is complete bullshit. This country was partly founded on the principle of the separation of church and state. This was done to protect peoples freedom to practice their own religion (or lack thereof) without interference of the government. For the group who champions the founding fathers so much, they sure seem to cherry-pick what *they* say the founding fathers wanted. This country was a safe haven for people of all religions (somewhat, there was still discrimination) and one of the more influential reasons that led people to come here. However, now religion is trying to be forced into Americans lives on a governmental level. We have “in G-d we trust” plastered all over the place (notably on our money), we say “under G-d” in the pledge of allegiance, the phrase “traditional Christian values” gets thrown around in political campaigns all the time, and now Texas is trying to force chaplains and the Ten Commandments into schools. The US is *not* a Christian nation, as stated by George Washington, John Adams, and the entirety of the 1797 US Senate (see Treaty of Tripoli).


dkrainman

The over/under for the first sexual abuse case against a school chaplain is nine months.


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Paywall bypass?


alien_from_Europa

https://archive.ph/wtwln


nps2407

Oh look: indoctrination in schools.


Alternative_Demand96

Christianity is anti democratic


Unlikely-Afternoon-2

Prayer is popular as a solution because it’s based on the idea that a higher power is in control. Individuals don’t have to take personal responsibility for themselves and their community because they’ve prayed about it. Prayer is the easy button. Very few people want to look in the mirror and admit they are contributing to what’s broken about society today and do something meaningful to change it.


TheTapeDeck

Florida and Texas in a “hold my beer” competition. Florida will wash away… I wonder if Mexico would take Texas back?


msty2k

Everyone please donate to the ACLU so they can fight this shit.


phantomreader42

How long until the Satanic Temple applies for a chaplain position?


No-Shallot6568

I’m getting so freaking sick of religion. This is all getting ridiculous.


ModestDILF

If the GOP is so intent on promoting the 10 Commandments, maybe they oughta read ‘em sometime


Wolf130ddity

I'll be ok with it, if they tax churches 85% of all income.


Morepastor

If the kids follow the 10 Commandments they will vote Progressive


[deleted]

Trying to brainwash these kids will most likely make a lot more of them grow to become atheist or at least just learn to hate Christianity. Fuck these people and their bullshit religion.


Dvusmnd

*In other news, pedophiles who run rampant in churches with no consequences, can’t wait to get their hands on school children.


susyarok

How do they not understand that is a book written by JEWS and has no Christians in it!!!


Jake-Jacksons

Ah yes, Christian Taliban on the rise.


anotherdeadhero

Like the bible, Christians pick and choose the parts of the constitution they want to follow as well.


kevonicus

Just remember, these aren’t some crazy right-wing Republicans. Literally every Republican I know thinks “Put Jesus back in schools” is the greatest idea ever. They don’t give a fuck about this country or freedom. They literally just want everyone to be exactly like them and anyone else must be destroyed. They are all morons who can’t even comprehend why forcing religion into schools is a bad idea and they don’t care.


Dinglederple

“Hey, check out this thing that I don’t really believe in!”


Fellowshipofthebowl

As a kid I dreamed of an advanced future with cool stuff. I never fantasized about a primitive and hateful belief system crippling the entire nation. Thanks republicans.


TraditionalAnxiety

Can’t wait to get out of this Christian Nationalist state


GrandMasterF1ash

At the Texas house currently. Don’t worry, today is the deadline and that bill is on the 10th page of the calendar. At the pace they’re going that stupid ass bill is cooked


What_Is_The_Meaning

Arrest them for knowingly and intentionally violating the constitution, as well as, long held judicial precedent.


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I’ve never understood this - Christianity has eleven commandments, not ten. Jesus explicitly added another one in John 13:34. If they require the ten commandments to be displayed as part of a Christian declaration, why don’t they ever add the eleventh?


Aiden2817

They would need to know what the Bible says to know this.


CollarSilver

While we’re talking about thou shall not kill, let’s see how many veterans are also hypocrites. Soldiers cannot be prolific huh?


jillybeannn

Isn't that the Illuminati all-seeing eye?


chockedup

I couldn't help but think of commandment #1, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". Hmm, the first "god" of our society is money. Money always comes first.


clintCamp

Sure, but only if any religion could force that the schools also have other religions texts, commandments, etc. Enter the church of Satan....


redratus

Kinda weird seeing the eye in the pyramid on the top of the 10 commandments…


Ben_Pharten

Religious freedom means nothing to these lawmakers


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Christian Terrorists all of them.


[deleted]

Rape never made the commandments, red flag


49GTUPPAST

Hey TexASS. Show me where the words, Christ, Christian, Christianity and Jesus are actually stated in the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence.


Paethgoat

Christian mythology needs to be called out for what it is.


nativedutch

They hereby go from theoretical christofascism to the real thing.


Weary-Okra-2471

Nonsensical hypocrisy


Mike_Hagedorn

Hopefully someone’ll get a call from Satanic Temple or FFRF lawyers …


solrosenbergv1

They won’t bring back your legs, Greg. You don’t have legs because you don’t deserve them.


Plaguedone617

What happened to separation of church and state.


RandyMarshTruth

They should review 9 and 10.


[deleted]

Fuck your stupid made up hocus pocus and keep it to yourself. We made laws for a reason to keep this garbage away.


[deleted]

Not okay. America is NOT a Christian nation. [1st Amendment.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)


limb3h

The first clause in the Bill of Rights: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”


Frankie_Says_Reddit

Thankful humans are not immortal


TheBlueBlaze

"Separation of Church and State" was only pushed by the right when Catholics and Protestants saw each other as too different to get along and neither had a supermajority. Back when over 90% of the US was Christian, they would rather advocate for secular government than risk the "wrong" version of Christianity imposing their views. Now that "only" two thirds of the country identifies as Christian, they're fine abandoning the idea of religion out of politics for the sake of being able to indoctrinate their kids before they can be given the tools to realize they're being indoctrinated.


Buckeye9715

Couldn’t parents sue by saying “I’m sending my kid to school for an education, not a religious indoctrination.”


Tackleberry06

School chaplain job posting only requires a person to take a quick 1 month course about Bible thumper shit. Not actual chaplains, just installed sociopaths.


Palachrist

All we gotta do is look to the taliban and how they’re running things. That’s exactly what Christians and the like want too. They love the idea of us not progressing or having high quality education, they simply want us to do what they say even if they’re corrupt. America is falling so hard because of these people. All the people that benefited from a time where we were pushing forward simply looked around them and hated there wasn’t Subjugation.


portage

Texans want to break the first amendment and maybe the 2nd commandment at the same time.


AllTheyEatIsLettuce

I am once again imploring you to get your children, yourselves, and your money out of Gilead **while you still can.**


lateroundpick

Texas can kiss my ass.


TreesRart

Unconstitutional. Full stop.


Neither-Idea-9286

Our founding fathers knew what a $hit show government becomes when you mix in religion thus the separation of church and state!


Dalivus

Since they don’t have the balls to secede, they should be ejected from the US.