Religious leader wants to display Indian scriptures in Louisiana public classrooms
Religious leader wants to display Indian scriptures in Louisiana public classrooms
I’m pretty sure they have to allow it now. Unless, of course, they secretly hate the constitution and are wholly unamerican.
Let's goooo! I call dibs on Pastafarians!
Where my Muslims, Buddhists, shamans, witchy folk at?
I’m sure the Satanic Temple is on it!
Gonna bring the after-school satan club to the entire state :)
I'm ordained in the Church of the FSM. Include me in the planning and execution stages.
Baphomet statue as well
I love it. I want Louisiana classroom walls papered with every set of religious laws out there, to let kids know how ridiculous it all is. Not like they're going to read even the Ten Commandments posters.
Another part that sucks is that the schools are expected to pay for these posters themselves. None of the state's budget was allocated to implement this.
And both of those things are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this law- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/21/2247667/-Here-are-9-outrageous-facts-about-Louisiana-s-Ten-Commandments-law
And yes, 'outrageous' is exactly the right word to use there, that is not clickbait. If you read that and are not pissed off about what Louisiana is doing to children, you sure as hell should be.
Try to put satanist posters in those schools
Ooh, we should have them put up the Five Commandments of Discordianism (a.k.a. the PENTABARF) too!
Praise be to the PENTABARF!
Hail Eris!
I partook of no hot dog buns long before I had a copy of the Principia. That's how I knew Eris was always watching over me.
Discord you say?
Eris you say?
Well, yeah, because of course!
I'm waiting for the satanists to demand their scriptures with Baphomet too, come on, hurry up!
The Seven Fundamental Tenants of TST removed from any other context are pretty decent guidelines for life. #4 gets a lot of flack, but I feel like it's counterbalanced by #7.
So people don't have to Google:
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.
I'd say respecting ones freedom to offend is important.
While I can respect that someone has the freedom to say offensive shit, I don't have to respect them for exercising that freedom and can call them a fucking idiot, thus exercising my own freedom to offend.
4 is essentially paraphrasing Voltaire. Belief that offending someone is a violation of their rights leads to authoritarianism and censorship. 4 says you can be a dick; 1 says you really shouldn't be and 6 says you should apologize when you are.
I. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
No wonder Republicans don't like them.
Tenet 4 has to exist to cover their own asses. TST exists as a means to build a counterpoint to the reach of other religions within public services, so the snowflakes perceive it as "existing to offend" religious (christian) people.
These dipshits have to be stupid to not see this coming right?
I mean you don’t get to 47th in nation by chance!
You haven’t met Christian fundamentalists, have you?
Like most religious fundies… they’re extra special.
I think they want to go to court now that there are compromised judges at every level; that's the only way to create the Christian nationalist utopia they desire.
The Wiccan Rede is one line and can be trimmed to two words.
It's also a chief principle of preschool and kindergarten classes.
Lol no not like that says every evangelical christo-fascist!
I hope they go for hindu swastikas just to mess with them.
That will just give Louisiana justification to put up the Nazi ones too. "It's just a religious symbol!"
fuck these people, don't force your religion on people (especially children).
I hope he meant it to show how ridiculous the Louisiana law is..
I worship Cenobites and I want to see Lament Configurations in every class room! Let’s tear some souls apart!
Since apparently the teachers will have to provide the posters themselves as it wasn't added to the school budgets, I wonder if they can get away with having the 10 commandments being written in comic sans oR LiKe tHiS and have the SpongeBob meme to go with it since technically, the commandments are still being displayed.
Huehuehue
Their tenets are amazing.
THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS
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.
You got two sixes and no seven there :)
I know little about the satanic temple, but I’m curious how they got to “commandments” that are basically good by any standard out of a character that has historically been viewed as a purveyor of discord and evil deeds.
E: way to downvote, people. It was a legit question. I’m atheist so I don’t read anything about individual gods or their opposing deities unless it’s in a fantasy novel.
I do request though that they add an image of Baphomet caring over some children, it really shows he cares.