Give Me a Fucking Break

The Louisiana state house thought it would be a good idea to post the Ten Commandments in school classrooms and so passed a law to that effect. An injunction against that law was immediately slapped upon it, but of course the federal appeals court in that region has decided that the law is fine with them.

“Don’t kill or steal shouldn’t be controversial,” she said. “My office has issued clear guidance to our public schools on how to comply with the law, and we have created multiple examples of posters demonstrating how it can be applied constitutionally. Louisiana public schools should follow the law,” said Attorney General Liz Murrill.

Of course not murdering or stealing are not controversial, but they had to go to the bottom of the list to find “commandments” that are not controversial.

But how about Commandment No. 1 on that same list (there are at least three such lists in scripture, all different, of course): “I am the LORD your God; you shall not have strange gods before me!” which is often reworded as “You shall have no other gods before me!” (Having the chutzpah to reword the Holy Bible is a common Republican thing.)

And Commandments No. 2 and No. 3 are just as bad: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. and “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.”

Kids aren’t stupid, the first thing they will ask (if they are allowed to) is “Who is doing the commanding?” If this gets asked in school, it is bound to get asked in church where questions get slapped down faster than Trump tariffs.

If you are a child of Islamic parents or of Hindu parents or of Sikh parents, how would you feel that your gods are referred to as “strange gods”? How will their parents respond if they are asked “Is our god strange?”

If kids are serious or just shit disturbers, they are bound to ask what “in vain” means. Can you explain it? Also, the Sabbath when these rules were written was Saturday, does that mean there will be no high school football games scheduled on Saturdays or on Sundays because the Christians moved their Sabbath to suck in Romans?

And the brightest kids in class will point out there are another 603 “commandments” in the Bible, and what about them? Snarky kids will ask why they are being taught out of the Jewish Bible. The smart girls will look at the tenth commandment and ask “Will I be the property of my husband? If so, you can forget about it.”

It is clear from this religious pandering while blithely ignoring constitutional law they are sworn to uphold, the judicial class and political class are shown to be incompetent, unfeeling, and sycophantic.

Wasn’t there a movie some time ago where the world was run by stupid people? Maybe that was more prophetic that I thought.

The Dumbest Story in Scripture

In the Hebrew Bible there is the story of the Ten Commandments, reportedly written on stone tablets. This smallest set of rules formed the basis of a new covenant between the Hebrew people and the god Yahweh. The deal was worship me, follow my rules and I will have your back, signed <Yahweh>

So, these rules were very important and every Hebrew was to follow them, so what dies Yahweh do? He provides an exact description of an “ark” to store the tablets away. Plus rules like “anyone who touches the box dies” and “be sure to cover the box when you move it around so no one can even see the ark,” let alone touch it.

So, the all-knowing god’s marketing campaign was to hide away the evidence that the tablets even existed and make sure that no one read the tablets, to be able to learn the rules, to be able to comply with them.

I wondered why Yahweh didn’t impose a gag order on Moses so that only he would know what the heck the rules were.

What a stupid story. And this was supposed to foster undying support for the carver of the tablet?

Stupid