Republican heads would explode if Islamic posters were going up in public universities, but seem to think it's okay if Christians force their way into institutions paid for with everyone's tax dollars. It's really a measure of just how insecure Christians are regarding their faith that they keep looking to government to backstop them.
No doubt. Their current favorite commandment to break as far as I can tell is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor." Creating falsehoods about others or bearing the falsehoods others of their ilk have created, seems to be mandatory these days. If you're not vocally condemning others you're just not Christian enough.
I think that’s probably a close second the first one is not taking God’s name in vain, they want to pretend it’s about cussing, it’s actually going around claiming you speak for God. People like Moses Mike Johnson who there is a special ticket to hell for, for the amount of lying and conniving he does in the name of his religion.
Yes, religion, like a penis, is private and should be kept in one's pants. A paraphrase of Maggie Smith's Line "My dear religion, is like a penis, a perfectly good thing to have, but when you wave it in my face, we have a problem."
50 years ago I was an undergrad at the University of Pittsburgh when the school gave a blank check to the Campus Crusade For Christ to use every available open space to push their right wing agenda which included supporting Pruneface Reagan for President in 1976. They bent over backwards for those radicals. Other groups were openly discriminated against.
That is why no matter how many times they have begged me for $$$ I never gave them a penny.
My college staged a deal where everyone leaving the building had to walk through a gauntlet of people handing out Bibles. I declined and one of the faculty laughed at me. I am not a small man, and I was a Vietnam veteran pretty mad at the world. I turned around and got in his face and dared him to laugh at me again. He backed off quick but I doubt he learned anything from it.
I got my undergrad at Washington University in St. Louis. WashU, it so happens, was the first university in the nation to admit women to its law school. Some years after I graduated, it awarded an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly and had her as the graduation speaker. A LOT of us protested to WashU when this was announced and before it happened but to no avail. That’s why I’ve never given them money.
Same at FSU. They coddled Campus Crusade and openly discriminated against a gay guy for the crime of being elected homecoming queen. And CC was joined by Maranatha Ministries which were, if anything, ever more radical.
If you install the 10 Commandments at all install the GENUINE 10 Commandments found in Exodus 34 and called the 10 Commandments in Verse 28. Exodus 20 doesn't make the cut (smashed by Moses and never used). Make sure they are in the original Aramaic and read them right to left.
And finally, ask yourself what a set of instructions meant specifically for one group of people has ANYTHING to do with the United States in 2025.
Believers will never do it, though. They are utterly hung on Exodus 20 and Chapter 34 is beneath their notice. Besides, it's a safe bet that 95% of them aren't even aware of its existence!
Looking at the ones they call the 10cs, prohibiting murder, theft, and perjury seem relevant, but it's unnecessary to make them a religious thing. From Exodus 34? None of that is relevant, unless your goal is mandatory religion. Oh, wait....
They think nobody can possibly refrain from murder, theft, and perjury unless compelled to do so by religion. As far back as 1970, I remember a revival preacher at our church thundering that if God were to take his hand off the world, this planet would fly apart!"
As a small child, I believed that literally and it scared the crap out of me.
Which of the 45,000 kkkrister gods is doing this? From what I see, most kkkatliks disagree with jesus on some point or other. After listening to Atheist Experience call-ins,I doubt any kkkrister considers any other kkkrister a true one.
Why do the people who want the 10 commandments displayed in schools support a president who has broken, by my count, at least eight of them (I give him the benefit of the doubt on 1 and 5, but what he is ordering right now of the South American coast clearly violates 6)?
Every time I think about those murders my stomach knots up, he’s just ordering the splatter of brown people all over the ocean just because. You know there’s no evidence for what they’re doing how could they have? What we have spies hanging around the dock to see who’s getting on boats? I’m an atheist and this rips at my gut, seriously you want to be in an immoral disgusting human becoming an evangelical.
Even assuming that the boats are running drugs, how do we know that one of the people on board isn’t an innocent fisherman whose is there very much against his will.
I completely agree we’re supposed to trust them, he surrounded himself with incompetent loyalist and he thinks we think they should decide who should live and die. Everything about this is nothing but murder.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that 11 guys on a boat we’re going to do a construction job on an island and had nothing to do with drugs why would 11 men men be smuggling drugs on a little boat? Maybe the boat had drugs on it but they also took passengers. That Alaskan airline has a drug smuggle let’s blow the whole thing including 250 passenger.
Do I think Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth think brown people have value? No they don’t.
Too bad there aren't any places in Arkansas to install the Ten Commandments.
Oh wait, there are. They're called churches. As of May 2025, Arkansas had 4,972 of them (down from 7.428 in 2020, which was more churchers PER CAPITA than any other state in the country at the time).
How much of that shrinkage is from megachurch consolidation and how much is from the youth leaving the faith? I would like to know the ratio of power consolidation to leaving bigotry.
Some of it is surely due to Covid killing off the vaccine hating pastor/owner. I drove along some backroads in Arkansas in the 80s. Tiny churches everywhere. And a noticeable fraction had ridiculous names. The one I vaguely remember 40 years later was something like Baptist Bible Church of the Silver Moon.
ETA to clarify: I’m reasonably confident that the ridiculous name churches were one-pastor shops. Pastor dies, church closes.
I’m glad he’s upset over the bullshit about the diversity part of his scholarship as well. That would be my breaking point for sure. His scholarship was named for being diverse and inclusive, to ask him to remove that part is ridiculous. What would it be for without the DEI? Wealthy rich white boys who fiddle around with a square?
Ahhhh, a T-square. Takes me back to high school drafting. Turned out to be a reasonably useful skill to learn, though the drafting I did in a work environment was almost entirely on a computer of one kind or another.
FAFO, it seems. The University of Arkansas thought it could just go ahead, act unconstitutionally, and post the 10Cs in its classrooms. Unfortunately, it didn't figure on Andy Kinslow or his not-insubstantial contribution to the university and its students.
The question now is whether UA learns from this business, or whether they just plow on regardless and eventually get forced to resolve the matter in court. Hint: ONE way is a LOT LESS EXPENSIVE than the other!
A person who grew up in Arkansas and now lives in Oklahoma who actually believes in the separation of church and state. A likely (but very welcome) rarity.
Oklahoma, the state that is 50th for education, dead last, is putting the 10 Commandments in classrooms in public schools. This is what happens when you let the chimpanzees run the zoo.
The admin caved to bigots, or are themselves, and students pay the price. Is there any way for the students eligible for the scholarships to get reparations from their college ?
I would make a joke about this. After all this has all the basics. And it a pretty unique story too. Sure the hypocrisy of displaying the ten commandments in public space under the guise of freedom of religion is a dime a dozen story. But how many other stories will include both Arkansas and higher education. Those concepts usually do not appear together. They're see together less in public than Meliana and Donald. But I am afraid I will have to pass. This story is a tragedy. Scholarships from deserving future architects will be revoked, meaning less architects. Less architects mean less ballrooms. And this country is in a critical shortage of ballrooms. It took almost two hundred years for us to get a ballroom at the Whitehouse, and now with this shortage of architects I am afraid that the supreme court will have to wait another two hundred years before they get theirs. We will be deprived of watching Amy what's-her-name do the tango, and having Alito yelling, " Jezebel!!!". This is a tragedy.
Exactly ... a throne room, except that, instead of a throne at the focus, there will be a gilded toilet, and above, Trump's motto: 𝑶𝑴𝑵𝑬𝑺 𝑭𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶 – I Cheat EVERYONE.
Republican heads would explode if Islamic posters were going up in public universities, but seem to think it's okay if Christians force their way into institutions paid for with everyone's tax dollars. It's really a measure of just how insecure Christians are regarding their faith that they keep looking to government to backstop them.
Their heads would REALLY explode if Scientologists insisted on installing auditing rooms in schools...
They can't seem to think that far ahead.
Of course, an unholy alliance with the state drives them even further in the wrong direction.
They'd probably explode if the Uni merely put "Judaism's Torah Says:" above each poster.
But...but.. Judeo-Christian values...?
Rabbis who hear "Judeo-Christian" simply shake their heads and laugh. To them, there's no such thing.
Don't ruin the narrative.
I don’t think they have enough in their heads to explode, they might pop at most if not just make a gurgling noise.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑧𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑.
Hitting them where it counts: their bank accounts. There still needs to be a lawsuit, however.
It's the only thing they will understand.
I can come up with a commandment for Christians:
"Keep thy religion to thyself."
(Blessed be St. George Carlin)
That's the commandment they are most likely to break.
No doubt. Their current favorite commandment to break as far as I can tell is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor." Creating falsehoods about others or bearing the falsehoods others of their ilk have created, seems to be mandatory these days. If you're not vocally condemning others you're just not Christian enough.
I think that’s probably a close second the first one is not taking God’s name in vain, they want to pretend it’s about cussing, it’s actually going around claiming you speak for God. People like Moses Mike Johnson who there is a special ticket to hell for, for the amount of lying and conniving he does in the name of his religion.
Yes, religion, like a penis, is private and should be kept in one's pants. A paraphrase of Maggie Smith's Line "My dear religion, is like a penis, a perfectly good thing to have, but when you wave it in my face, we have a problem."
Bless these clubs Father, so I may win - Cardinal Glick
"If only we had their numbers" - Cardinal Glick
my favorite movie.
.... bows down, falls flat....
50 years ago I was an undergrad at the University of Pittsburgh when the school gave a blank check to the Campus Crusade For Christ to use every available open space to push their right wing agenda which included supporting Pruneface Reagan for President in 1976. They bent over backwards for those radicals. Other groups were openly discriminated against.
That is why no matter how many times they have begged me for $$$ I never gave them a penny.
My college staged a deal where everyone leaving the building had to walk through a gauntlet of people handing out Bibles. I declined and one of the faculty laughed at me. I am not a small man, and I was a Vietnam veteran pretty mad at the world. I turned around and got in his face and dared him to laugh at me again. He backed off quick but I doubt he learned anything from it.
I've cited this more than once around here, and it deserves some notice:
... 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑧𝑒.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, The Star Beast
You are welcome to step on mine when you want 🤣
Now WHY would I wanna do THAT??? 🤔
My toes are as existent as King Arthur 🤣
OOOOHHHHH! So you're like The Pobble Who Has No Toes!
https://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pobble.html
I read that a second time - slowly - to savour it.
I got my undergrad at Washington University in St. Louis. WashU, it so happens, was the first university in the nation to admit women to its law school. Some years after I graduated, it awarded an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly and had her as the graduation speaker. A LOT of us protested to WashU when this was announced and before it happened but to no avail. That’s why I’ve never given them money.
Phyllis? That's just mean. I learned something from her though. The word harpy. Screeching monkey.
Same here with Campus Crusade at my college in the late 70s. It got hold of my brother and turned him into a monster.
Same at FSU. They coddled Campus Crusade and openly discriminated against a gay guy for the crime of being elected homecoming queen. And CC was joined by Maranatha Ministries which were, if anything, ever more radical.
And again, it must be stated:
If you install the 10 Commandments at all install the GENUINE 10 Commandments found in Exodus 34 and called the 10 Commandments in Verse 28. Exodus 20 doesn't make the cut (smashed by Moses and never used). Make sure they are in the original Aramaic and read them right to left.
And finally, ask yourself what a set of instructions meant specifically for one group of people has ANYTHING to do with the United States in 2025.
I blame Cecil B. DeMille.
Those monuments were done as publicity stunts to hype the movie. And even those were in Proto-Hebrew.
Originally, there were 15 commandments.
Oy!
Believers will never do it, though. They are utterly hung on Exodus 20 and Chapter 34 is beneath their notice. Besides, it's a safe bet that 95% of them aren't even aware of its existence!
Xtians would have brain aneurysms if they ever read Exodus 34.
XTIANS: "How the @#$%^&*! are we supposed to follow THESE!?!"
Looking at the ones they call the 10cs, prohibiting murder, theft, and perjury seem relevant, but it's unnecessary to make them a religious thing. From Exodus 34? None of that is relevant, unless your goal is mandatory religion. Oh, wait....
They WANT mandatory religious superstition.
They think nobody can possibly refrain from murder, theft, and perjury unless compelled to do so by religion. As far back as 1970, I remember a revival preacher at our church thundering that if God were to take his hand off the world, this planet would fly apart!"
As a small child, I believed that literally and it scared the crap out of me.
Which of the 45,000 kkkrister gods is doing this? From what I see, most kkkatliks disagree with jesus on some point or other. After listening to Atheist Experience call-ins,I doubt any kkkrister considers any other kkkrister a true one.
It has everything to do with the Christian Nationalist Theocracy they are turning the United States into in 2025.
Ramen!
Edited for typos
And again...... (drum roll, cymbal crash)....... I still have not seethed a kid in its mother's milk.
Thank you for your patience.
Why do the people who want the 10 commandments displayed in schools support a president who has broken, by my count, at least eight of them (I give him the benefit of the doubt on 1 and 5, but what he is ordering right now of the South American coast clearly violates 6)?
Every time I think about those murders my stomach knots up, he’s just ordering the splatter of brown people all over the ocean just because. You know there’s no evidence for what they’re doing how could they have? What we have spies hanging around the dock to see who’s getting on boats? I’m an atheist and this rips at my gut, seriously you want to be in an immoral disgusting human becoming an evangelical.
Even assuming that the boats are running drugs, how do we know that one of the people on board isn’t an innocent fisherman whose is there very much against his will.
I completely agree we’re supposed to trust them, he surrounded himself with incompetent loyalist and he thinks we think they should decide who should live and die. Everything about this is nothing but murder.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that 11 guys on a boat we’re going to do a construction job on an island and had nothing to do with drugs why would 11 men men be smuggling drugs on a little boat? Maybe the boat had drugs on it but they also took passengers. That Alaskan airline has a drug smuggle let’s blow the whole thing including 250 passenger.
Do I think Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth think brown people have value? No they don’t.
If they are suspected of a crime, pull them over. Seems easy to me.
#1 Trump thinks Trump is bigger than god.
#5 I don't know which list you are using but I pretty sure Trump broke it.
Honour your parents
Trump's parents don't deserve honor because they brought this narcissistic orange felon into the world and created him in their own image.
I've seen the pictures of Trump's parents. They look like villains from an old Dick Tracy comic strip.
Because they see him as nothing more than a conduent to get what they want. Either that, or they delusionally believe that he is one of them.
Too bad there aren't any places in Arkansas to install the Ten Commandments.
Oh wait, there are. They're called churches. As of May 2025, Arkansas had 4,972 of them (down from 7.428 in 2020, which was more churchers PER CAPITA than any other state in the country at the time).
How much of that shrinkage is from megachurch consolidation and how much is from the youth leaving the faith? I would like to know the ratio of power consolidation to leaving bigotry.
Some of it is surely due to Covid killing off the vaccine hating pastor/owner. I drove along some backroads in Arkansas in the 80s. Tiny churches everywhere. And a noticeable fraction had ridiculous names. The one I vaguely remember 40 years later was something like Baptist Bible Church of the Silver Moon.
ETA to clarify: I’m reasonably confident that the ridiculous name churches were one-pastor shops. Pastor dies, church closes.
I read Sailor Moon 🤣
The big 10 cannot stop kiddie rape and other crimes in churches, either. Judging by bishop-accountability.org, it seems to encourage hild rape.
I’m glad he’s upset over the bullshit about the diversity part of his scholarship as well. That would be my breaking point for sure. His scholarship was named for being diverse and inclusive, to ask him to remove that part is ridiculous. What would it be for without the DEI? Wealthy rich white boys who fiddle around with a square?
Good for him. Take your money elsewhere.
It's called a T square! George is getting upset.
Ahhhh, a T-square. Takes me back to high school drafting. Turned out to be a reasonably useful skill to learn, though the drafting I did in a work environment was almost entirely on a computer of one kind or another.
Thank you for your comment.
Thank you for standing up for others.
FAFO, it seems. The University of Arkansas thought it could just go ahead, act unconstitutionally, and post the 10Cs in its classrooms. Unfortunately, it didn't figure on Andy Kinslow or his not-insubstantial contribution to the university and its students.
The question now is whether UA learns from this business, or whether they just plow on regardless and eventually get forced to resolve the matter in court. Hint: ONE way is a LOT LESS EXPENSIVE than the other!
About time someone took a stand--good for him.
Thank you
An honor to be thanked by someone with integrity and wisdom!
A person who grew up in Arkansas and now lives in Oklahoma who actually believes in the separation of church and state. A likely (but very welcome) rarity.
Oklahoma, the state that is 50th for education, dead last, is putting the 10 Commandments in classrooms in public schools. This is what happens when you let the chimpanzees run the zoo.
They put up the 10 Suggestions and then fling their feces at everyone after they do it.
Damn Dirty apes.
https://youtu.be/ZqZdfxc-fq0
Wonderful.
OT: We're about to see Mormon shoulder. I don't know if I'm ready for that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/undergarment-upgrades-bring-many-mormon-women-comfort-and-joy/ar-AA1PnJVU?
But does God really approve? Do you dare take a chance?
Do you really need underwear to remind you about god?
"Oh god, this is riding up."
No, but it helps. 😇
My answer is unmentionable.
Mind is undie-niable
I gave it a brief thought.
Giggity!
Do you prepare those like a pork shoulder?
Could you also call them a Salt Lake butt?
Mostly white meat.
Whiter than Wonder Bread.
Whiter than sour cream.
I've seen some pretty non-white sour cream in my fridge before.
Eww.
Forget it long enough and it ain't white no more......
.....also, it's fuzzy. And possibly sentient.
youtu.be/wH3UncRagXY
OMG! Harlots running amok with no sleeves!!!
Everybody panic!!!
https://i.imgflip.com/1zk4yg.jpg
Underwear makes you feel close to God? It's never done it for me, but obviously I have never worn magic underwear.
How much more magic will those new undies be providing?
Idk. I've misplaced my seer stones.
Have you checked your hat?
Maybe your underwear is too tight.
How nice to see someone take the money and run (from religious folderol).
Watch out for Billy Mack.
The admin caved to bigots, or are themselves, and students pay the price. Is there any way for the students eligible for the scholarships to get reparations from their college ?
I would make a joke about this. After all this has all the basics. And it a pretty unique story too. Sure the hypocrisy of displaying the ten commandments in public space under the guise of freedom of religion is a dime a dozen story. But how many other stories will include both Arkansas and higher education. Those concepts usually do not appear together. They're see together less in public than Meliana and Donald. But I am afraid I will have to pass. This story is a tragedy. Scholarships from deserving future architects will be revoked, meaning less architects. Less architects mean less ballrooms. And this country is in a critical shortage of ballrooms. It took almost two hundred years for us to get a ballroom at the Whitehouse, and now with this shortage of architects I am afraid that the supreme court will have to wait another two hundred years before they get theirs. We will be deprived of watching Amy what's-her-name do the tango, and having Alito yelling, " Jezebel!!!". This is a tragedy.
A slight edit: it’s not a ballroom, it’s a throne room. All the king’s men will be bringing bitcoin to lay at the feet of the Mad King.
Exactly ... a throne room, except that, instead of a throne at the focus, there will be a gilded toilet, and above, Trump's motto: 𝑶𝑴𝑵𝑬𝑺 𝑭𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶 – I Cheat EVERYONE.
Especially on his wives
Isn't he about due for an upgrade? The current wife hasn't been around much.
Yeah, maybe one of those silicone ones with the gazillion facelifts and/or Botox injections
How does one carry Bitcoin?
They’re really just collectibles made of different metals.
I know. That's what makes it so stupid.
Lol, as if he’d know the difference?
How right you are. The Arkansas Architects would have been a great football team but this gentleman has ruined their chances by pulling his support.