cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/10103853

Courthouse News reports: Arizona’s House Education Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow public school teachers and administrators to post and discuss the Ten Commandments in the classroom. State Senator Anthony Kern [photo], the bill’s sponsor, says the Ten Commandments shaped the country’s heritage. “Our history is the Ten Commandments,” the Republican from Glendale …

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    161·
    8 months ago

    Thou shall not kill

    … makes you wonder about a few things in American culture …

    • gun ownership, which causes deaths by people in the thousands every year (intentional and accidental and self inflicted), basically most personal firearms are meant for one thing … to kill people.
    • military industrial complex which is the vehicle and cause of mass human death around the world
    • death penalty, if your Bible says do not kill, why do you have laws that say you should kill
    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      Technically, as I understand it, that is a mistranslation. It should be “Thou shalt not commit murder”. Executions and killing in war are perfectly okay with the god of the Bible. It’s only *illegal *killing that you should refrain from. In fact, there are numerous places in the Bible where the readers are told to kill people in god’s name. So you can get right out there and start killing men, women, and babies with no worry that you’ll go to hell for it.