This is yet more performance art on the part of the religious right. It's a win-win for them. They either get to force their religion into the public school classrooms, or they get to play the poor, persecuted victims of the godless left. There is not a shred of evidence the Ten Commandments in the classrooms makes for better students and people. The fact eight of the Commandments would be unconstitutional should anyone try writing them into law is casually ignored.
Me too! My mom was a huge Rogers and Hammerstein fan, we had all the sound tracks. I can still rember the lyrics to most of those songs, but cant remember why I walked into the kitchen 5 minutes ago. 😆
I remember hearing that song when I was young (back in the middle of the Younger Dryas). It's as true today as it was back then. Thanks so much for the reminder!
ha ha ha, spot on,but sadly true,my neibs belong to the 'plentyCaustical' tribe,and even they are questioning their pastors request to have a pre-paid Cadi fleetwood every 2 years ...hmmmmm
Thomas Jefferson long ago pointed out what nonsense it is to claim our laws are based on the Big Ten, but the Christians (Or "Judeo-Christians") never learn--they don't want to.
No, they DON'T want to learn that ... because doing so would be to admit that their boy isn't the top dog in the universe, that reality was NOT designed with THEM in mind (and may not have been designed at all!).
A great deal of this crap about the 10Cs is about INSECURITY, their insecurity about their faith, and THAT's the problem.
I think a lot of it is about the christianists marking the schools as their territory - like dogs pissing on fire hydrants. They have to demonstrate that they are the top dogs and get to tell all the heathens so. (And hopefully their kiddies won't ask what adultery is?)
A century later and little, if anything has changed. Kandiss Taylor is running for the Georgia senate in 2026. Among her notable beliefs: the flood that devastated parts of TX was fake, and the earth is flat.
They need to have their noses rubbed in that, preferably with headlines and other citations. Doesn't matter if they're Catholic, Baptist, Seventh Day, whatever. The number of kids and adults being sexually molested and/or assaulted by men in religious authority is too large to be ignored ... AND IT SHOULDN'T BE.
What were the Dems and THEIR billionaire donors thinking when the GOP bought up 99.9% of the mainstream media? Did they learn nothing from the continuous damage FAUX News lies had done? Or were they just completely incompetent and focused on the status quo? Either way, the truth is now as rare as hen’s teeth from the national media. Truth comes out in dribs and drabs while disinformation reigns supreme.
I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
Texas has the highest rate of adultery in the country, according to Houston TX-based KHOU-11. This was based on their survey of 2000 people. Texas topped the list with a cheating score of 63.70, barely edging out Alabama, who is tied with Mississippi as the 2 most religious states in the entire US. In another study by MyDatingAdviser, the cities of Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth took the top 3 spots as most unfaithful.
Seems Texas has a bit of a problem being faithful to the Protestant 8th Commandment
In addition, since Wheels Abbott made the incredulous statement that “Texas will put an end to all rape,” more than 30,000 raped Texas women have been forced to give birth to their rapist’s baby.
Think about that. I’m a crusty old man, but even I can imagine the pain a woman would go through in this Texas tragedy. She will be reminded daily of that rape for the rest of her life.
That's right. And now one of their most high-profile adulterers, Ken Paxton, is getting divorced. Of course the records will be sealed because he's running against Sen. Cornyn in 2016. Voters will have to wait to read about any of the sordid details.
I read somewhere that Jasmine Crockett is possibly running in the Dem primary for that seat. I’m wondering who’d be the easiest for her to beat. I’m thinking Paxton.
Good thinking, Texas! People are drowning, your electrical grid is on death’s door, your idiot Governor is removing your civil rights with impunity and you are spending your resources on putting up posters in classrooms and arguing about it. Classy move, Lone Star State.
Maybe rainbow posters would have been a better reminder: "Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
I saw where guv said prayer was the reason floodwaters stopped rising. Cuz god needed to hear so many prayers in order to stop the flood? Sorry god, but go shove a century old saguaro cactus up your ass.
I think they are doing this not just to get the Decalogue in public schools, although that will be part of their wet dream about the future, but to get a case to this runaway SCOTUS. They know that if they can get the right facts before Judge (nothing matters but Jesus) Alito, he will write another opinion about how much we need Jesus in our lives and the other four rogue justices will side with him. They know that Texas is the best way to get a law like this through the appellate system.
This bill isn’t written for the children, it’s written against the children. This bill is being proposed, written and put into law by power hungry, my way or the highway, religious zealots who need to feed their egos on their mystical supreme being power trip.
The kids will universally ignore the stoopid poster.
It's one more step on the road to Christian indoctrination, using public schools in addition to Sunday School crap. I'm sure their long view includes taking public schools over altogether.
The actual irony is that the REAL scared children here are the adults doing this crap.
Besides the fact that the "correct" Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 34 and NOT Exodus 20, any display of the 10 would fall under violating the 2nd Commandment concerning graven images. Perhaps they should put up the Catholic version with NO mention of graven images (watch the non-Catholics howl over THAT one).
If they're going to do this, put up the set from Exodus 34 in Aramaic and read right to left. Make sure to attach an Englsih translation. Then watch the fun as students and faculty scratch their heads over THOSE commandments.
I know that headlines like these are old news, yet it continues to astonish me how little regard some Christians have for other belief systems, and for that matter, other PEOPLE. The have The ONE True Belief™, and EVERYONE is supposed to know about it, subscribe to it, and believe it JUST LIKE THEY DO ... because if they don't, here comes that nasty cognitive dissonance to spoil their whole day and give rise to doubts.
So many times I've heard people talk about "live and let live," and that continues to be the lesson that doesn't sink in.
That has been my mantra forever, Troublesh00ter. It is the easiest thing in the world, yet has, apparently, become the most difficult. It’s the people with a low quality of life that go looking to fuck with others…to derive some kind of MAGATY satisfaction in their miserable lives.
Self-possessed people generally don't mess with others. More likely they want to HELP others. Those who are less self-possessed, some of 'em, anyway, either look to control others or BE controlled.
Speaking of Texas, which commandment(s) did Ken Paxton break?
"Angela Paxton, who is also a state senator, wrote in a social media post that she filed for divorce from her husband after “recent discoveries” pushed her to end their marriage after 38 years. She did not specify what those discoveries were.
“Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds,” she wrote on X. “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”Angela Paxton, who is also a state senator, wrote in a social media post that she filed for divorce from her husband after “recent discoveries” pushed her to end their marriage after 38 years. She did not specify what those discoveries were."
you are still correct.. patrick heads a sunday school class...where they take field trips to look for fossils....which ,naturally, are the products of ...(GASP) ...Satan.....who has made them,and has strewn them about...just to confuse us (sigh)
Pretty hard to miss that moral superiority snark in that statement. I guess Angie likes to lay it on THICK ... which may be why Kenny went looking elsewhere.
Next to the Commandments should be a list of the ways that Antichrist Trump has disobeyed them. That list will be far longer than the Commandments themselves.
Kids all over the country are becoming completely illiterate if reports from school staff are to be believed, yet THIS is the big priority. The longer I live watching from across the pond, the more I come to realise what an extremely weird country America really is.
This is yet more performance art on the part of the religious right. It's a win-win for them. They either get to force their religion into the public school classrooms, or they get to play the poor, persecuted victims of the godless left. There is not a shred of evidence the Ten Commandments in the classrooms makes for better students and people. The fact eight of the Commandments would be unconstitutional should anyone try writing them into law is casually ignored.
If they can't indoctrinate children, who will pay for the pastor's jet in the next generation?
Their obsessive need to indoctrinate children before they've reached the age of reason is a tacit admission of just how weak their message really is.
You've got to be taught.
"It's got to be drummed into your dear little ear"
https://youtu.be/VPf6ITsjsgk?si=DT9Bm8JaJkHm1Y43
Thanks. Great song, but as an 8 year old it failed to make an impression on me. But now … fantastic !
I was in my boys' school choir when I was 10, and we had a number of songs from South Pacific in our repertoire, but not this song.
We absolutely loved the South Pacific songs.
Me too! My mom was a huge Rogers and Hammerstein fan, we had all the sound tracks. I can still rember the lyrics to most of those songs, but cant remember why I walked into the kitchen 5 minutes ago. 😆
Can commiserate...I wear a wrist band with my phone # on it...(sigh)...to make things worse, my phone is a rotary pulse dial, WE-300,lol....
That’s a hoot, Sko. Where did you find that clip?
YouTube has everything.
That's a song from Roger's and Hammerstein's South Pacific.
I remember hearing that song when I was young (back in the middle of the Younger Dryas). It's as true today as it was back then. Thanks so much for the reminder!
Now I know why I haven’t seen it.
So weak, but never to be pitied!
ha ha ha, spot on,but sadly true,my neibs belong to the 'plentyCaustical' tribe,and even they are questioning their pastors request to have a pre-paid Cadi fleetwood every 2 years ...hmmmmm
There's a church down the street from me, I think its some sort of Mormon offshoot, whose pastor has a 2024 Mustang and a 2024 Chevy Silverado. 🙄
Poor pastor, he had to make do with models from last year. Don't you understand how much it's hard for him ?
Thomas Jefferson long ago pointed out what nonsense it is to claim our laws are based on the Big Ten, but the Christians (Or "Judeo-Christians") never learn--they don't want to.
No, they DON'T want to learn that ... because doing so would be to admit that their boy isn't the top dog in the universe, that reality was NOT designed with THEM in mind (and may not have been designed at all!).
A great deal of this crap about the 10Cs is about INSECURITY, their insecurity about their faith, and THAT's the problem.
I think a lot of it is about the christianists marking the schools as their territory - like dogs pissing on fire hydrants. They have to demonstrate that they are the top dogs and get to tell all the heathens so. (And hopefully their kiddies won't ask what adultery is?)
fundies' kids learn very early that asking questions is bad for their health.
And insecurity in their identities.
Exactamundo. As I've said elsewhere, they are NOT self-possessed.
top dawg in the universe ? ha ha ha !
They want to have their beliefs validated. Period. No interest in anything that might contradict those dearly held beliefs.
And the Scopes trial turns 100.
A century later and little, if anything has changed. Kandiss Taylor is running for the Georgia senate in 2026. Among her notable beliefs: the flood that devastated parts of TX was fake, and the earth is flat.
In the past, she has been a major embarrassment to Georgia. Now she's probably prestigious. My native state is veering, MTG and all.
You have my sincere condolences for having MTG.
Please send more than thoughts and prayers. Maybe a few million sane voters can move here--not sure what states can spare them, though.
Most of our founding father's were Deists, not Christians. This is not a Christian country and they didn't want it to be that way!
Posting the Ten Commandments in schools will surely lower the staggering rate of adultery among 10 year olds in Texas.
If it lowers the record high incidence of REPEAT teen pregnancies in Texas, I will be officially STUNNED.
No worries, since abortion is banned, those kids will have a bright future picking crops.
yup, where 'massa' gives them free time off...from 12-3pm on Sundays
No water breaks, though!
And prevent them for playing with dolls and figurines because it's worship.
My 1st grade girlfriend cheated on me.
Kidding, I made that up. The cheating part, not the girlfriend part. She was from Canada.
Always the talk about drag queens, LGBTQs, atheists and even Democrats grooming children when it is quite clearly Christians doing the grooming.
They need to have their noses rubbed in that, preferably with headlines and other citations. Doesn't matter if they're Catholic, Baptist, Seventh Day, whatever. The number of kids and adults being sexually molested and/or assaulted by men in religious authority is too large to be ignored ... AND IT SHOULDN'T BE.
What were the Dems and THEIR billionaire donors thinking when the GOP bought up 99.9% of the mainstream media? Did they learn nothing from the continuous damage FAUX News lies had done? Or were they just completely incompetent and focused on the status quo? Either way, the truth is now as rare as hen’s teeth from the national media. Truth comes out in dribs and drabs while disinformation reigns supreme.
I think the Democrats turned into Republicans and Republicans turned into Fascists, and here we are.
Ask not what your CUNTRY can do for you!
Reason based not imaginary friend based.
I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
Satanic Temple
Commentary on the above:
https://ibb.co/h092wpt
Texas has the highest rate of adultery in the country, according to Houston TX-based KHOU-11. This was based on their survey of 2000 people. Texas topped the list with a cheating score of 63.70, barely edging out Alabama, who is tied with Mississippi as the 2 most religious states in the entire US. In another study by MyDatingAdviser, the cities of Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth took the top 3 spots as most unfaithful.
Seems Texas has a bit of a problem being faithful to the Protestant 8th Commandment
In addition, since Wheels Abbott made the incredulous statement that “Texas will put an end to all rape,” more than 30,000 raped Texas women have been forced to give birth to their rapist’s baby.
Think about that. I’m a crusty old man, but even I can imagine the pain a woman would go through in this Texas tragedy. She will be reminded daily of that rape for the rest of her life.
I always think of him as Abbottoir.
That's right. And now one of their most high-profile adulterers, Ken Paxton, is getting divorced. Of course the records will be sealed because he's running against Sen. Cornyn in 2016. Voters will have to wait to read about any of the sordid details.
That's 2026.
I read somewhere that Jasmine Crockett is possibly running in the Dem primary for that seat. I’m wondering who’d be the easiest for her to beat. I’m thinking Paxton.
Good thinking, Texas! People are drowning, your electrical grid is on death’s door, your idiot Governor is removing your civil rights with impunity and you are spending your resources on putting up posters in classrooms and arguing about it. Classy move, Lone Star State.
If those posters were in place¹, the floods wouldn't have been much more than a moist inconvenience.
(¹ And really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 absorbent.²)
(² And also magical.)
Maybe rainbow posters would have been a better reminder: "Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
That does not say anything about fire, though.
Fire is with Earth & Wind.
https://youtu.be/god7hAPv8f0?si=ba3cNxcEKgufCDB1
Those are not the approved cherries for picking, Larry...stick to the script.
When the disasters continue they will claim stronger superstition is needed.
And blame Biden, the senile super genius.
“Moist inconvenience.” 😂
Good band name?
I saw where guv said prayer was the reason floodwaters stopped rising. Cuz god needed to hear so many prayers in order to stop the flood? Sorry god, but go shove a century old saguaro cactus up your ass.
I think goddybitch should shove a hand grenade up it’s ass, since it like guns and munitions so much!
You misspelled loony.
𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑠.
....but Texas.
I think they are doing this not just to get the Decalogue in public schools, although that will be part of their wet dream about the future, but to get a case to this runaway SCOTUS. They know that if they can get the right facts before Judge (nothing matters but Jesus) Alito, he will write another opinion about how much we need Jesus in our lives and the other four rogue justices will side with him. They know that Texas is the best way to get a law like this through the appellate system.
All of these same types of cases are. One of them is bound to, sadly.
This bill isn’t written for the children, it’s written against the children. This bill is being proposed, written and put into law by power hungry, my way or the highway, religious zealots who need to feed their egos on their mystical supreme being power trip.
The kids will universally ignore the stoopid poster.
It's one more step on the road to Christian indoctrination, using public schools in addition to Sunday School crap. I'm sure their long view includes taking public schools over altogether.
The actual irony is that the REAL scared children here are the adults doing this crap.
Besides the fact that the "correct" Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 34 and NOT Exodus 20, any display of the 10 would fall under violating the 2nd Commandment concerning graven images. Perhaps they should put up the Catholic version with NO mention of graven images (watch the non-Catholics howl over THAT one).
If they're going to do this, put up the set from Exodus 34 in Aramaic and read right to left. Make sure to attach an Englsih translation. Then watch the fun as students and faculty scratch their heads over THOSE commandments.
And I still have never seethed a kid in its mother's milk.
They left out “thou shall not covet thy neighbors ass…”
At least let the kids have a good laugh.
My neighbor's ass is way too big. I don't think anyone would covet it.
You’d be surprised!
The Hefty Heifers porn channel?.
And disgusted.
https://youtu.be/X53ZSxkQ3Ho?list=RDX53ZSxkQ3Ho&t=31
Seattle homeboy. :)
I'm surprised no one posted it sooner.
I know that headlines like these are old news, yet it continues to astonish me how little regard some Christians have for other belief systems, and for that matter, other PEOPLE. The have The ONE True Belief™, and EVERYONE is supposed to know about it, subscribe to it, and believe it JUST LIKE THEY DO ... because if they don't, here comes that nasty cognitive dissonance to spoil their whole day and give rise to doubts.
So many times I've heard people talk about "live and let live," and that continues to be the lesson that doesn't sink in.
That has been my mantra forever, Troublesh00ter. It is the easiest thing in the world, yet has, apparently, become the most difficult. It’s the people with a low quality of life that go looking to fuck with others…to derive some kind of MAGATY satisfaction in their miserable lives.
Enter “Karen.”
Self-possessed people generally don't mess with others. More likely they want to HELP others. Those who are less self-possessed, some of 'em, anyway, either look to control others or BE controlled.
And that happens in both politics and religion.
So very sad … you Mr. and Mrs. USA have way more than your fair share of NUTTERS on this planet. Starting with Numero Uno Trump at the #1 desk.
Speaking of Texas, which commandment(s) did Ken Paxton break?
"Angela Paxton, who is also a state senator, wrote in a social media post that she filed for divorce from her husband after “recent discoveries” pushed her to end their marriage after 38 years. She did not specify what those discoveries were.
“Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds,” she wrote on X. “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”Angela Paxton, who is also a state senator, wrote in a social media post that she filed for divorce from her husband after “recent discoveries” pushed her to end their marriage after 38 years. She did not specify what those discoveries were."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/ken-paxton-divorce-00447521
The only question is did he do it with a man, a woman or both ?
Or a sheep.
I thought sheeps had better taste.
I heard livestock were involved.
Maybe an Afghan camel.
When they tried to impeach Dan Patrick, part of the impeachment was about Patrick giving favors to one of his donors for protecting the affair.
Patrick ? Do you mean paxton ?
Yes, having a senior moment over here! ;D
you are still correct.. patrick heads a sunday school class...where they take field trips to look for fossils....which ,naturally, are the products of ...(GASP) ...Satan.....who has made them,and has strewn them about...just to confuse us (sigh)
Pretty hard to miss that moral superiority snark in that statement. I guess Angie likes to lay it on THICK ... which may be why Kenny went looking elsewhere.
If he was unhappy with her, he should have been the one to ask for a divorce.
I have no idea whatsoever as to the dynamic of their relationship. That she makes it public with such a statement speaks volumes, to my mind.
He's probably either cheating on her or he's gay.
The first does not preclude the second, therefore: Both.
Next to the Commandments should be a list of the ways that Antichrist Trump has disobeyed them. That list will be far longer than the Commandments themselves.
That list would run to pages and pages ... and probably multiple volumes.
Trump is a reality TV show fascist similar to the televangelists they love so much. He is being persecuted for THEM, duh.
Along with his failed businesses.
Child: "Teacher, what's 'adultery'?"
Teacher: *silently longs for death*
Kids all over the country are becoming completely illiterate if reports from school staff are to be believed, yet THIS is the big priority. The longer I live watching from across the pond, the more I come to realise what an extremely weird country America really is.
Stuff adults do. It's tollerated for adult males, but completely unacceptable when done by adult females.
Ooh, good answer.
I’ll be here all week……………tips appreciated but not the one to use an umbrella in the rain.
https://ibb.co/Gjyw0FL
Lived happily ever after in Lot's beard?
Ran away and joined a circus.
Kids...
Went on to play bass with Red Hot Chilli Peppers. 😉
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Give it away, give it away, give it away now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhb0pWyXyY
"Give it away, give it away, give it away now"
Weird Al takes on that song (at 46 seconds in)
youtu.be/BtV_nQKhkdY
(this vid was the first one Al ever directed)
Started a plague.