That is exactly the strategy. These school districts in Texas and Arkansas are caught in a proverbial Catch-22: stand back and do nothing, and the posters remain; fight back, and there is a chance that it heads to the Supreme Court.
When SCOTUS ruled that presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president while in their core constitutional purview for official acts, Russell Vought of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 supposedly mentioned to other members that this is the ruling we need to "take back America". So doing something they know will result in a lawsuit, then appealing lower court rulings is definitely part of their game plan.
There has been a feeling on the Right since Trump was elected that they're able to do things they were prohibited from doing before. In my lifetime, I can't remember a point in history when people of a political party felt like the election of their candidate gave them carte blanche. There was a bit of that under George W., but not to this extent.
60 years. The "Southern Strategy" was the beginning of the push to gain the undeserved power they have now. The interchangeable aryan talking heads just accelerated the process.
Closest analogy I can think of is when Kennedy was assassinated in the middle of civil rights era, Johnson took over, and segregationists started fighting back harder because they figured he was a "good 'ol boy" and that if they got his attention, he'll move away from Kennedy's policies.
Unfortunately for them, Johnson seemed to have felt deeply that he needed to finish out Kennedy's term honoring Kennedy's promises and policies, regardless of what his personal position might have been. But also, it turned out that his time growing up amongst southern white racists meant that he understood them...but did not mean he agreed with them.
Anyway, your first line is exactly what's going on. All these states and districts are passing blatantly unconstitutional laws because they think if they can just grab the attention of Trump and SCOTUS, those authorities will make their rules legal. Trump would probably like to just because he loves the attention and right-wing adulation. Thomas and Alito might because they are so religiously right-wing. But I'm not sure that even on this court, there are 5 justices that would agree to 10C posters and the like.
There was another VP named Johnson that succeeded a trustworthy, Constitution loving POTUS. That was Andrew Johnson, who after Lincoln’s death, turned a Civil War loss by the South into a horrible lost opportunity for our government to improve our nation’s humanity.
If things continue as they are (oh geez) our best chance of some semblance of a democracy will be in 2026, when we banish those traitorous ingrates from the right with new House and Senate leadership. Only by the Republicons controlling all 3 branches of government can this coup survive. That’s why Shitler has ordered Wheels Abbott to gerrymander his pasty white ass off in Texas.
Our government is so far off the rails it will take a revolution to fix it.
As an Arkansawyer, I done agree with this here judge. Them commandments have contain an awful evil in them. Numbers. We ain't need no number in our here school. Numbers done lead to maths. Maths done lead to Satan. And we ain't going stand for that. I done didn't marry my cousin-sister just to have my daughter-neice fall into the grips of Satan!
These things are always a win-win for the religious right. They either get to force their religion into the public schools paid for with everyone's tax dollars, or they get to play the poor persecuted victims of the godless left. I suspect it's that second outcome that results in bringing in the most money. In any event, these efforts are a tacit admission on the part of organized religion that they cannot survive if they are not allowed to indoctrinate children before they reach the age of reason.
They desperately want to get one of these suits in front of this SCOTUS. They think this Court will just bulldoze down the remains of the Wall of Separation. They may be right.
“Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?” -- Sandra Day O'Connor
The MAGAS believe that they are god’s chosen people and are destined to rule the world. In their (MAGAS) mind a true Christian nationalist is white (European descent), heterosexual (men/women genders only), Christian (evangelical, but other Protestant sect are acceptable), conservative (fascist), republican (Trump supporter).
The rednecks think that they and only they have Human Rights and Civil Liberties, so they should rule by default for the reasons stated above. The rest of us are considered by the rednecks as servant and/or slaves to be used, abused, or killed on a whim without any consequences.
This is the attitude/worldview that the Christian Nationalists have towards non MAGAS and the world at large!
And these reasons are why the Reconstruction boot should never have been taken off the confederates treasonous necks. What we need are Nuremberg trials, executions of every principle, enabler,and large scale donor. Every heritage foundation traitor needs to die. Musk Theil and every other wealthy traitor needs to be executed for their treason and forfeit all assets. Every ICE agent needs to die in prison. And every ordinary magat stripped of both vote and right to hold office. Do what was done to Nazis, what we should have done to the confederacy.
Forgive me a tangent today, it's been a very long week and I'm tired of dealing with the current political shenanigans.
The real issue with laws that push the Christian Ten Commandments is that these law are, on some level, a breach of the social contract. These laws are intended to police the thoughts of individuals on a level that makes any number of people miserable or at least uncomfortable in the name of attempting to retain power in the hands of a specific few, meaning that lives are not improved by these laws. The social contract is all about making rules that people will follow 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 (𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑠) 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒. The ideas from the Christian Ten Commandments that are still relevant are already in current law as they are good ideas for a stable society; the others are not present because not everyone worships the same figment of the imagination. When Christians (and yes, in the current US of A, it IS Christians) attempt to force everyone else to agree to their rules, they are in effect committing violence against society as a whole and trying to force society to agree to Christian rule. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜.
Christians would do well to remember that the social contract protects them the same as everyone else, and breaching it will cause problems - and possibly actual persecution - for them, too.
What a weak, powerless deity these christers grovel to. It needs posters put up by humans instead of showing itself. You’d think an all powerful being could make its presence known.
Funny how YHVH was all over the Old Testament, barking out orders and smiting people. Then when Jesus and the New Testament came along the Big Guy suddendly became virtually mute and hasn't been heard from since.
Just an observation.
(Maybe it was a Mafia thing and Jesus decided take out his old man. "It's nuttin' poisonal, pop. It's just business")
This deity forces his adherents to believe in him by prayer. He rewards them by never showing himself, and random acts of luck that coincidentally have exactly the same probability as chance. This deity allegedly wrote a book with fables about life on planet earth.
The stronger the belief, the bigger the delusion said deity is real.
Look at it this way: six thousand years ago, their deity created the whole universe; two thousand years ago, it was raising the dead, turning water into wine and walking on water; these days, the best it can do is appearing on toast.
Their deity isn't doing all that well as time goes on.
At a time when two branches of our government are basically either acting in a lawless or a collusional attitude, it's refreshing to see that the judiciary, at least in places, is attempting to hold up the rule of law. This is especially encouraging as regards the tenuous wall between State and Church.
I really needed some good news this morning. Thanks, Hemant!
Agree. It’s looking bad out there. It’s hard to feel like stopping these folks from “advertising” is a win when scientists and doctors are fleeing the country for greener pastures and we plunge into every kind of manmade crisis imaginable.
I think we might see in the next decade if a first world country can become a third world area.
I think it depends if the USA can stay together. If it does, things will muddle through. If not, I can see some states becoming impoverished. The irony being they are likely to be GOP dominated states.
Just like here in the UK with Brexit, individual states might find their economic power much reduced.
But the Supreme Court is compromised too. I think the founders never expected a man like Trump to get anywhere near the White House. He is picking apart all the weak points of the Constitution.
What they didn't expect was that congress would be a lapdog that abdicated it's duty to to rein in a tyrant. They should have The Roman Republic and empire was rife with gutess rubber stamp Senates.
I'll give conservative Christians this much... they have some next-level 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 bladder capacity, to manage such an uninterrupted stream of piss-marking.
There was a time when when the courts placed an injunction against something like this, it applied to all, but now the corrupt SCROTUS has made rulings that kneecap the courts and keep rulings from having any teeth. Federal court rulings only affect the state the court is in, rather than all states on a FEDERAL level. Moronic. But it is logical that when there is a challenge to the legality of a government entity doing something, and the court says don’t do this thing until the legality is determined, it would be effective across the board and not only to the few entities involved in the case. If it’s illegal, it’s illegal for everyone, not just a few. Idiotic.
I hope these district administrators and board members lose their positions here, they’re obviously incompetent.
In the past (and I'm thinking specifically of Kitzmiller), districts and states which were not part of the suit but considering a similar idea would pay attention to another district's legal result and say "oh, we're not going to bother trying that now, because it would cost a lot and our end result would likely be the same failure they experienced." IOW, the conservaties in charge of the next county over might personally dislike some ruling, but they were pragmatic about their leadership.
But now they bother, because conservatives today will happily waste taxpayer dollars on useless lawsuits just to get themselves some anger votes. Its far more about the clicks than good governance.
This activist judge will be personally held responsible whenever a school shooting happens in one of the districts where he ordered the removal of these 10C posters. /s
It too bad that fucking bitch Mary (Joseph wife) didn’t have a goddamm fucking abortion; we wouldn’t be dealing with all the fucking goddamm batshit Christian bullshit now! If any of these characters actually existed of course!
The 4ᵗʰ century MRGA¹ assholes would have taken another mythical figure (Mithras, Sol Invictus, or some other now forgotten name) to grab absolute power.
Mithras (a Persian god), Sol Invictus (Helios), etc, wouldn’t object to people worshipping others gods as long as you also worshiped him. The Abrahamic god seem very possessive (like a jealous boyfriend/husband) that he needs to give permission to do things or needs know everything you do.
If that were two humans acting like that; we would not call that love, but abusive behaviour. Yet, when it comes to goddybitch/jeezyboy/flying rat we are to accept it as love not abuse. If that is not a symptom of insanity, I have no idea what symptoms for insanity are!
"... wouldn’t object to people worshipping others gods as long as you also worshiped him"
The priests who created those gods will change them whenever they feel a need to do it. See also how preachers have transformed the sermon-of-the-mount jesus into republican jesus.
That is true! I was just pointing out the hypocrisy that a controlling and dominating god actions are not the acts of love!
I agree that religion is a tool for those in power to maintain and protect their power from others or to prevent it from being dilute among the people.
Constantine hesitated on what part of the empire needed reassurance. He chooses the west part. Christianity being solidly implanted in Gaule, he converted to this religion.
Yet Constantine move the capital to Byzantium, and rename it Constantinople. So I think the eastern half of the Roman Empire needed more reassurance or he would have kept Rome as the capital.
Don’t forget Gaul was a hotbed for Arianism, while the the new capital was supporter of the Trinity. Constantine wanted everyone to be on the same page so to speak, that is why he call the council at Nicaea. That lead to a mess of controversies that are still being worked over today. Who knows what was lost during these numerous councils that might have made Christianity a more kinder and less convert or die organization.
I actually kind of admire Mary for being able to put one over on her parents by saying "No, no, no, it wasn't Joe and me doing the dirty, it was Yahweh himself!". Hey, it worked, didn't it?
First and foremost, no way do I believe that Sarah Huckleberry, Queen of Arkansas Fashion, would ever allow something so completely unconstitutional to ever occur. Secondly, there are actual Razorbacks that are smarter than Mike Huckleberry’s daughter.
"The Constitution doesn’t bend to their faith, and neither will the courts."
The top court might and that's really what their shooting for.
That is exactly the strategy. These school districts in Texas and Arkansas are caught in a proverbial Catch-22: stand back and do nothing, and the posters remain; fight back, and there is a chance that it heads to the Supreme Court.
When SCOTUS ruled that presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president while in their core constitutional purview for official acts, Russell Vought of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 supposedly mentioned to other members that this is the ruling we need to "take back America". So doing something they know will result in a lawsuit, then appealing lower court rulings is definitely part of their game plan.
The reckoning will not be kind to at least six of the "justices".
Let the bodies hit the floor.
Thou shalt not post the 10 Commandments.
Thou shalt not post the wrong commandments.
Thou shalt laugh uproariously at the true Ten Commandments.
Is that my cue?
I still have never seethed a kid in its mother's milk.
[Bows to tumultuous audience applause. Oh well, perhaps next time.]
I clapped - with one hand.
Thou shalt also not fuck with the Constitution!
Well, to be fair, we do have an amendment process.......😉
True ... but there's updating and refining the Constitution, and then there's what Donnie Dumb-Ass & Co. want to do with it!
There has been a feeling on the Right since Trump was elected that they're able to do things they were prohibited from doing before. In my lifetime, I can't remember a point in history when people of a political party felt like the election of their candidate gave them carte blanche. There was a bit of that under George W., but not to this extent.
My daughter teaches in Conway, and I was very proud when she told me that she never put up the unconstitutional poster in the first place.
Send her our thanks!
"Lock her up! Lock her up!"
29 years of Faux Snooze telling the rethugs that they are the only people who get to govern.
60 years. The "Southern Strategy" was the beginning of the push to gain the undeserved power they have now. The interchangeable aryan talking heads just accelerated the process.
True enough!
We live in an authoritarian state now. Russia 2.0
Closest analogy I can think of is when Kennedy was assassinated in the middle of civil rights era, Johnson took over, and segregationists started fighting back harder because they figured he was a "good 'ol boy" and that if they got his attention, he'll move away from Kennedy's policies.
Unfortunately for them, Johnson seemed to have felt deeply that he needed to finish out Kennedy's term honoring Kennedy's promises and policies, regardless of what his personal position might have been. But also, it turned out that his time growing up amongst southern white racists meant that he understood them...but did not mean he agreed with them.
Anyway, your first line is exactly what's going on. All these states and districts are passing blatantly unconstitutional laws because they think if they can just grab the attention of Trump and SCOTUS, those authorities will make their rules legal. Trump would probably like to just because he loves the attention and right-wing adulation. Thomas and Alito might because they are so religiously right-wing. But I'm not sure that even on this court, there are 5 justices that would agree to 10C posters and the like.
There was another VP named Johnson that succeeded a trustworthy, Constitution loving POTUS. That was Andrew Johnson, who after Lincoln’s death, turned a Civil War loss by the South into a horrible lost opportunity for our government to improve our nation’s humanity.
If things continue as they are (oh geez) our best chance of some semblance of a democracy will be in 2026, when we banish those traitorous ingrates from the right with new House and Senate leadership. Only by the Republicons controlling all 3 branches of government can this coup survive. That’s why Shitler has ordered Wheels Abbott to gerrymander his pasty white ass off in Texas.
Our government is so far off the rails it will take a revolution to fix it.
As an Arkansawyer, I done agree with this here judge. Them commandments have contain an awful evil in them. Numbers. We ain't need no number in our here school. Numbers done lead to maths. Maths done lead to Satan. And we ain't going stand for that. I done didn't marry my cousin-sister just to have my daughter-neice fall into the grips of Satan!
And, don't forget. those are Arabic numbers or worse, Roman numbers not good, Biblical, American numbers.
Sorry, I can't do the accent.
The only good numbers are those in GOP voters bank accounts.
G卐P 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘴 bank accounts.
FIFY
👍👍
These things are always a win-win for the religious right. They either get to force their religion into the public schools paid for with everyone's tax dollars, or they get to play the poor persecuted victims of the godless left. I suspect it's that second outcome that results in bringing in the most money. In any event, these efforts are a tacit admission on the part of organized religion that they cannot survive if they are not allowed to indoctrinate children before they reach the age of reason.
They desperately want to get one of these suits in front of this SCOTUS. They think this Court will just bulldoze down the remains of the Wall of Separation. They may be right.
“Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?” -- Sandra Day O'Connor
She was a woman - this Court would just say she didn't know her place.
If that's the case, how long is it going to be before Amy Coney Barrett gets told to leave the court and get barefoot and pregnant?
If her husband told her to resign, she would have to, with they batshit rules they follow.
They have a supermajority, so really, she is irrelevant.
The MAGAS believe that they are god’s chosen people and are destined to rule the world. In their (MAGAS) mind a true Christian nationalist is white (European descent), heterosexual (men/women genders only), Christian (evangelical, but other Protestant sect are acceptable), conservative (fascist), republican (Trump supporter).
The rednecks think that they and only they have Human Rights and Civil Liberties, so they should rule by default for the reasons stated above. The rest of us are considered by the rednecks as servant and/or slaves to be used, abused, or killed on a whim without any consequences.
This is the attitude/worldview that the Christian Nationalists have towards non MAGAS and the world at large!
And these reasons are why the Reconstruction boot should never have been taken off the confederates treasonous necks. What we need are Nuremberg trials, executions of every principle, enabler,and large scale donor. Every heritage foundation traitor needs to die. Musk Theil and every other wealthy traitor needs to be executed for their treason and forfeit all assets. Every ICE agent needs to die in prison. And every ordinary magat stripped of both vote and right to hold office. Do what was done to Nazis, what we should have done to the confederacy.
Wow! Too extreme? I don't think so. Thank you for saying this.
Because we would do it right.
Not just yeah but HELL YEAH!!!
“Indoctrinate” being the operative word.
Their God is fake.
But their collective delusion is real.
Forgive me a tangent today, it's been a very long week and I'm tired of dealing with the current political shenanigans.
The real issue with laws that push the Christian Ten Commandments is that these law are, on some level, a breach of the social contract. These laws are intended to police the thoughts of individuals on a level that makes any number of people miserable or at least uncomfortable in the name of attempting to retain power in the hands of a specific few, meaning that lives are not improved by these laws. The social contract is all about making rules that people will follow 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 (𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑠) 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒. The ideas from the Christian Ten Commandments that are still relevant are already in current law as they are good ideas for a stable society; the others are not present because not everyone worships the same figment of the imagination. When Christians (and yes, in the current US of A, it IS Christians) attempt to force everyone else to agree to their rules, they are in effect committing violence against society as a whole and trying to force society to agree to Christian rule. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜.
Christians would do well to remember that the social contract protects them the same as everyone else, and breaching it will cause problems - and possibly actual persecution - for them, too.
What a weak, powerless deity these christers grovel to. It needs posters put up by humans instead of showing itself. You’d think an all powerful being could make its presence known.
Funny how YHVH was all over the Old Testament, barking out orders and smiting people. Then when Jesus and the New Testament came along the Big Guy suddendly became virtually mute and hasn't been heard from since.
Just an observation.
(Maybe it was a Mafia thing and Jesus decided take out his old man. "It's nuttin' poisonal, pop. It's just business")
Don't tell that to Benjamin Netanyahoo.
The war criminal? He's damn lucky he isn't sitting in prison.
If he's ever booted, he can expect a long stay at a big grey hotel. Preferably for the rest of his miserable existence.
He'll have plenty of time to talk with all the gods: Yahweh, Allah and Jeezis.
It'll be a rather one-sided chat.
I used to think that net 'n' yahoo was redneck tennis.
I thought it was another way to refer to the internets.
This deity forces his adherents to believe in him by prayer. He rewards them by never showing himself, and random acts of luck that coincidentally have exactly the same probability as chance. This deity allegedly wrote a book with fables about life on planet earth.
The stronger the belief, the bigger the delusion said deity is real.
Miracles, how do they work? I’d say it’s about time ol’ Jeebus threw a few our way, no?
https://preview.redd.it/seriously-though-does-anyone-actually-know-can-you-do-v0-2x3q8da225mc1.png?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c723f4cfe5639fda279e60aacd404ed3bad3e49b
Magnets are Satan's playground.
Look at it this way: six thousand years ago, their deity created the whole universe; two thousand years ago, it was raising the dead, turning water into wine and walking on water; these days, the best it can do is appearing on toast.
Their deity isn't doing all that well as time goes on.
What are you taking about? Fifteen Major League baseball teams won their games this week.
They tell us that these laws are written on our conscience. Obviously they don't believe it.
It's obviously written in a language no one understands.
The only law they believe is might makes right.
At a time when two branches of our government are basically either acting in a lawless or a collusional attitude, it's refreshing to see that the judiciary, at least in places, is attempting to hold up the rule of law. This is especially encouraging as regards the tenuous wall between State and Church.
I really needed some good news this morning. Thanks, Hemant!
Agree. It’s looking bad out there. It’s hard to feel like stopping these folks from “advertising” is a win when scientists and doctors are fleeing the country for greener pastures and we plunge into every kind of manmade crisis imaginable.
I think we might see in the next decade if a first world country can become a third world area.
I think it depends if the USA can stay together. If it does, things will muddle through. If not, I can see some states becoming impoverished. The irony being they are likely to be GOP dominated states.
Just like here in the UK with Brexit, individual states might find their economic power much reduced.
But the Supreme Court is compromised too. I think the founders never expected a man like Trump to get anywhere near the White House. He is picking apart all the weak points of the Constitution.
Doesn't stop this being good news.
What they didn't expect was that congress would be a lapdog that abdicated it's duty to to rein in a tyrant. They should have The Roman Republic and empire was rife with gutess rubber stamp Senates.
Great read here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
The SCOTUS 6 have their own corrupt agenda and version of authoritarianism regardless of Dear Leader.
I'll give conservative Christians this much... they have some next-level 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 bladder capacity, to manage such an uninterrupted stream of piss-marking.
Ten Commandments have no place in public schools 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Or even in churches. They are rules meant only for the ancient Israelites and not for Gentiles.
There was a time when when the courts placed an injunction against something like this, it applied to all, but now the corrupt SCROTUS has made rulings that kneecap the courts and keep rulings from having any teeth. Federal court rulings only affect the state the court is in, rather than all states on a FEDERAL level. Moronic. But it is logical that when there is a challenge to the legality of a government entity doing something, and the court says don’t do this thing until the legality is determined, it would be effective across the board and not only to the few entities involved in the case. If it’s illegal, it’s illegal for everyone, not just a few. Idiotic.
I hope these district administrators and board members lose their positions here, they’re obviously incompetent.
Not quite correct, I think.
In the past (and I'm thinking specifically of Kitzmiller), districts and states which were not part of the suit but considering a similar idea would pay attention to another district's legal result and say "oh, we're not going to bother trying that now, because it would cost a lot and our end result would likely be the same failure they experienced." IOW, the conservaties in charge of the next county over might personally dislike some ruling, but they were pragmatic about their leadership.
But now they bother, because conservatives today will happily waste taxpayer dollars on useless lawsuits just to get themselves some anger votes. Its far more about the clicks than good governance.
This activist judge will be personally held responsible whenever a school shooting happens in one of the districts where he ordered the removal of these 10C posters. /s
FAFO.
It would be hilarious if the judge ordered that the 10 commandments can go up, but only in Arabic.
Or the original Aramaic.
In the original Klingon.
Wouldn't that be Hebrew?
Hebrew came a century after Aramaic.
Good for the judge.
Now post something more important...the Beatitudes. Aside from making Jesus a Socialist, they are just plain good advice.
Only Republican Jesus is allowed in the US of A-holes now. Someone nail up that damn hippy they call Socialist Jesus!
It too bad that fucking bitch Mary (Joseph wife) didn’t have a goddamm fucking abortion; we wouldn’t be dealing with all the fucking goddamm batshit Christian bullshit now! If any of these characters actually existed of course!
The 4ᵗʰ century MRGA¹ assholes would have taken another mythical figure (Mithras, Sol Invictus, or some other now forgotten name) to grab absolute power.
1. Make Rome Great Again.
Mithras (a Persian god), Sol Invictus (Helios), etc, wouldn’t object to people worshipping others gods as long as you also worshiped him. The Abrahamic god seem very possessive (like a jealous boyfriend/husband) that he needs to give permission to do things or needs know everything you do.
If that were two humans acting like that; we would not call that love, but abusive behaviour. Yet, when it comes to goddybitch/jeezyboy/flying rat we are to accept it as love not abuse. If that is not a symptom of insanity, I have no idea what symptoms for insanity are!
"... wouldn’t object to people worshipping others gods as long as you also worshiped him"
The priests who created those gods will change them whenever they feel a need to do it. See also how preachers have transformed the sermon-of-the-mount jesus into republican jesus.
That is true! I was just pointing out the hypocrisy that a controlling and dominating god actions are not the acts of love!
I agree that religion is a tool for those in power to maintain and protect their power from others or to prevent it from being dilute among the people.
Constantine hesitated on what part of the empire needed reassurance. He chooses the west part. Christianity being solidly implanted in Gaule, he converted to this religion.
Yet Constantine move the capital to Byzantium, and rename it Constantinople. So I think the eastern half of the Roman Empire needed more reassurance or he would have kept Rome as the capital.
Don’t forget Gaul was a hotbed for Arianism, while the the new capital was supporter of the Trinity. Constantine wanted everyone to be on the same page so to speak, that is why he call the council at Nicaea. That lead to a mess of controversies that are still being worked over today. Who knows what was lost during these numerous councils that might have made Christianity a more kinder and less convert or die organization.
I actually kind of admire Mary for being able to put one over on her parents by saying "No, no, no, it wasn't Joe and me doing the dirty, it was Yahweh himself!". Hey, it worked, didn't it?
That’s the Jesus who wears a MAGA hat, crossed bandoliers, and carries an AR-15.
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Murika!
US of A-holes! LOL! Stealing this!
John, Paul, George and Ringo 🙂
A thousand upvotes for the Sister Act reference.
Banal drivel.
Yeah, it’s just bloviating by politicians. Playing to their base.
First and foremost, no way do I believe that Sarah Huckleberry, Queen of Arkansas Fashion, would ever allow something so completely unconstitutional to ever occur. Secondly, there are actual Razorbacks that are smarter than Mike Huckleberry’s daughter.
Slanders Sanders.
The Fugly Guv.
The Huckabeast