# They are trying it again- Ten Commandments **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 20, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134 "2024-06-20T20:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/41 "2024-06-21T12:20:14Z")
Or they neighbor’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/42 "2024-06-21T12:23:48Z")
I keep thinking this thread should be about a remake of the Charlton Heston movie. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/43 "2024-06-21T12:28:05Z")
No doubt! But the Governor should be mocked and humiliated for his state being bottom-of-the-barrel while he signs this nonsense law - his job is the health of his state and it’s people - he’s charged with improving people’s lives. I guess someone has to be last place - he’s achieved one thing, tho by giving Mississippi their state motto: “At least we’re not Louisiana!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/44 "2024-06-21T12:33:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Does the law specify how teachers should respond when an eight-year-old asks questions about the adultery in the seventh commandment, or the coveting of your neighbor’s wife in the tenth commandment? Any teacher who brings up such filth in front of children, or has anything in the room referencing it, should be immediately fired, of course. (the logical conclusion is left as an exercise for the reader) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/45 "2024-06-21T12:34:01Z")
Right – they got ahead of arguments about versions by explicitly putting forth in the text of the law a standardized version apparently arrived at by committee by sort-of-averaging a bunch of different Protestant versions. Which in Louisiana strikes me as a bit of a slap to its French/Spanish heritage. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/46 "2024-06-21T12:36:38Z")
I’m not even clear which of the Ten Commandments are supposed to be really considered moral guides for kids – the adultery one? The murder one? Do they have a lot of kids worshipping idols while committing murder and disrespecting their parents? I mean, if they said to post the Golden Rule, I could almost see that, but the TC are a weird list to post. Anyway, even if they claim they are historical, how do they justify putting history lessons into math and science classrooms? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/47 "2024-06-21T12:40:12Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Anyway, even if they claim they are historical, how do they justify putting history lessons into math and science classrooms? Remember, this Louisiana. Not sure if they even have that sort of classroom. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/48 "2024-06-21T12:41:42Z")
Clearly we need to teach that the very historical Mohamad very historically split the Moon in half in science class . . . that’s history too right? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/49 "2024-06-21T12:49:22Z")
When people mention that my atheism has become more militant, I just laugh and point out bullshit like this. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/50 "2024-06-21T12:59:41Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Do they have a lot of kids worshipping idols It’s like you’ve never heard of TikTok. ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/51 "2024-06-21T14:49:10Z")
I’ve always been surprised the commandment was directed towards men instead of women given how a lot of Christianity treats women. “Thou shalt not seduce thy neighbor’s husband.” ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/52 "2024-06-21T15:52:42Z")
Reminiscent of Trump’s marching orders to every attorney that he’s ever retained, I’m still focused on a workaround for "large, easily readable font.” I can think of any number of fonts that would meet that criteria. I’d like to propose that we agree on one, and then use it to print the text in white on a white background. Could anybody in the Bible Belt _really_ take issue with there being _too much whiteness_ in a Biblical text? _Ambiguity befalls the draftor._ It isn’t my fault if they weren’t specific enough. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/53 "2024-06-21T16:52:35Z")
Comic sans serif. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/54 "2024-06-21T18:11:47Z")
Goddamn you for stealing my suggestion. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/55 "2024-06-21T18:21:59Z")
It is a property rights thing. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/56 "2024-06-21T18:22:34Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > But does it specify “readable” in a particular language? IIRC it even specifies the version used by most _Protestant_ sects (KJV?), which opens it up to challenge by Catholics and Jews among others. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/57 "2024-06-21T18:38:22Z")
“Thou shalt not covet thy fellow Doper’s font.” ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/58 "2024-06-21T18:41:07Z")
So, the Protestants break apart the no other gods and graven images into two, and combine the covets into one, right? And, Catholics do the opposite? I think the Protestants do it the way that Jewish tradition holds, right? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/59 "2024-06-21T18:42:45Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > IIRC it even specifies the version used by most _Protestant_ sects (KJV?), which opens it up to challenge by Catholics and Jews among others. It is the same commandments, just the numbering and is different and a few words. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/60 "2024-06-21T18:44:02Z")
The Louisiana version is not even the real KJV Ten Commandments. You’d think people would be up in arms with the politicians editing the Bible like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134.md?page=4)