Re: Texas given up on the switch scam?

On Wed, 28 May 2025 09:44:32 +0100, Martin Harran
<martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2025 08:46:37 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
wrote:
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-bill-ten-commandments-public-schools-rcna206851
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Texas had bent over for the obfuscation and denial creationist switch
scam back in 2010, but had to have the bait and switch run on them again
in 2013 when they tried to use the switch scam to teach ID in their
public schools.
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They are now trying a more direct approach that seems to be as
unconstitutional as Oklahoma's use of the Bible in public schools as a
text book, and last month Arkansas' Trumpy Governor (she claims that
Trump was chosen by Jesus) signed similar 10 commandment legislation
when I was out on the road.

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America Magazine, published by the Jesuits, had an article yesterday
analysing how it is wrong for the Christian Right to be campaigning
for posting the Ten Commandments in schools.
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I give a link to the full article below but here is the TLDR version
from their newsletter yesterday:
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<quote>
Father Clifford, a Jesuit priest who taught for 55 years at Boston
College and is a professor emeritus of Old Testament there, notes a
consensus among biblical scholars from the Jewish, Catholic and
Protestant traditions that while the Ten Commandments lay the
foundation for Jews' and Christians' relationship with God, they are
not meant to be a universal covenant that applies to adherents of
other religions-or of no religion. Posting the Ten Commandments in the
classroom, then, is not just a violation of the First Amendment, but
also a contradiction of the Bible itself.
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What might be a more appropriate text? "Let me offer an alternative
for American classrooms: the Golden Rule, treating others as one would
want to be treated by them," Father Clifford writes. "A version of the
Golden Rule is found in several places in the Bible and in almost
every religion in the world."
</quote>
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Full article:
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/27/clifford-ten-commandments-classrooms-250734

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

A better version is:

"Do unto others as others would have you do unto them".

It's a subtle distinction.  But based on your posting behavior, the
subtleties of both versions escape you.

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