Courthouse News reports: Arizona’s House Education Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow public school teachers and administrators to post and discuss the Ten Commandments in the classroom. State Senator Anthony Kern [photo], the bill’s sponsor, says the Ten Commandments shaped the country’s heritage. “Our history is the Ten Commandments,” the Republican from Glendale …

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Courthouse News reports: Arizona’s House Education Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow public school teachers and administrators to post and discuss the Ten Commandments in the classroom. State Senator Anthony Kern [photo], the bill’s sponsor, says the Ten Commandments shaped the country’s heritage. “Our history is the Ten Commandments,” the Republican from Glendale …

  • BenVimes@lemmy.ca
    141·
    9 months ago

    A quick rundown of the Ten Commandments, for those who never went to Sunday School:

    • Four are theocratic authoritarianism
    • Three are obvious crimes that appear in law codes the world over, even without the influence of Judaism
    • One is useful in some civil proceedings, but most modern criminal codes don’t label it a felony
    • One is okay as general life advice, but isn’t universally applicable, and it has weird theocratic qualifier
    • One is a thought crime

    In summary, not the best basis for a society.