Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. Although the bill did not receive final approval from Landry, the time for gubernatorial action — to sign or veto the bill — has lapsed.

Opponents question the law’s constitutionality, warning that lawsuits are likely to follow. Proponents say the purpose of the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the law’s language, the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.

  • DMBFFF
    13•5 months ago

    It should be in proper English: not these new interpretations—as if they could re-write the Bible—blasphemy! I say.

    ws:Bible (Tyndale)/Exodus#Chapter 20

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Tyndale)/Exodus#Chapter_20

    1 And God spake all these wordes ad saide:

    2 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought the out of the londe of Egipte ad out of the house of bondage.

    3 Thou shalt haue none other goddes in my syght.

    4 Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage, nether any symilitude that is in heauen aboue, ether in the erth beneth, or in the water that ys beneth the erth.

    5 Se that thou nether bowe thy sylf vnto them nether serue them: for I the Lorde thy God, am a gelouse God, and viset the synne of the fathers vppon the childern vnto the third and fourth generacion of the that hate me:

    6 and yet shewe mercie vnto thousandes amonge them that loue me and kepe my commaundmentes.

    7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne, for the Lord wil not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne.

    8 Remebre the Sabbath daye that thou sanctifie it.

    9 Sixe dayes mayst thou laboure ad do al that thou hast to doo:

    10 but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God, in it thou shalt do no maner worke: nether thou nor thy sonne, nor thy doughter, nether thy manservaunte nor thy maydeservaunte, nether thy catell nether yet the straunger that is within thi gates

    11 For in sixe dayes the Lorde made both heauen and erth and the see and all that in them is and rested the seuenth daye: wherfore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath daye and halowed it.

    12 Honoure thy father ad thy mother, that thy dayes may be loge in the lode which the Lorde thy God geueth the.

    13 Thou shalt not kyll.

    14 Thou shalt not breake wedlocke.

    15 Thou shalt not steale.

    16 Thou shalt bere no false witnesse agest thy neghboure

    17 Thou shalt not couet thy neghbours housse: nether shalt couet thy neghbours wife, his maservaunte, his mayde, his oxe, his asse or oughte that is his.

    18 And all the people sawe the thunder ad the lyghteninge and the noyse of the horne, ad howe the mountayne smoked. And whe the people sawe it, they remoued ad stode a ferre of

      • @threeganzi@sh.itjust.works
        2•5 months ago

        The Bible was actually written in three different ancient languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. While a modern version of each of these languages is spoken today, most modern readers of those languages would have some difficulty with the ancient versions used in the biblical texts.

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