Public schools would have to display Ten Commandments under bill passed by Texas Senate

I think the Muslim is actually fine on this one since Islam considers the Torah to be a legit (but imperfect) earlier revelation. Broader point still stands, of course.

 

Why should the state endorse and impose one particular religion's commandments, nearly half of which are related to religious worship, in a public setting where people of other, valid faiths are present? How is that not a violation of the establishment clause?

 

1860s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust#Initial_adoption

 

It shouldn't, but it's pretty harmless.

 

This was (not) a thing among my evangelical friends... Dhalsim faints, or is that downward dog?

Why Schools Are Banning Yoga
Mindfulness programs have become popular on K–12 campuses, but in some parts of the country concerns about religious intrusion keep the trend at bay.

...The trend, however, seems to have been accompanied by an uptick in vocal pushback against the idea. In 2016, an elementary school in Cobb County, Georgia, became the subject of heated controversy after introducing a yoga program. Parents’ objections to the yoga classes—on the grounds that they promoted a non-Christian belief system—were vociferous enough to compelthe district to significantly curtail the program, removing the “namaste” greeting and the coloring-book exercises involving mandalas. A few years before that, a group of parents sued a San Diego County school district on the grounds that its yoga program promoted Eastern religions and disadvantaged children who opted out. While a judge ruled in favor of the district, the controversy resurfaced two years ago amid concerns that the program was a poor use of public funds in already strapped schools. Meanwhile, just last month the Alabama Board of Education’s long-standing ban on yoga caused some ballyhoo after a document listing it as one of the activities prohibited in “gym class” was recirculated, grabbing the attention of a Hindu activist
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The most vocal opponents tend to cite yoga’s Hindu and Buddhist roots, arguing that the line between those origins and secular practices is often blurry. Yoga encompasses all kinds of approaches and techniques, some more spiritual than others, but those roots often filter into even the most innocuous of mindful-movement routines. Religious influences are, arguably, even baked into elements as simple as “om” chants, poses with Sanskrit names, and, as the controversy in Georgia attests, collective “namaste” greetings.

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In the Cobb County case, some parents felt that the school was using a double standard in allowing yoga classes yet banning other forms of religious practice in schools. “No prayer in schools. Some don’t even say the Pledge [of Allegiance], yet they’re pushing ideology on our students,” one mother, Susan Jaramillo, told a journalist for the area’s NBC affiliate. “Some of those things are religious practices that we don’t want our children doing in our schools.” Yet the school’s principal, who did end up apologizing for and revising the yoga curriculum, argued that much of the parents’ criticism rested on false assumptions about the program—a parent cited by The Washington Post worried, for instance, that the school was promoting a “Far East mystical religion with crystals and chants to be practiced under the guise of stress release meditation.
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“The minute you put Sanskrit into a curriculum … some parents are going to freak out,” agrees Jai Sugrim, a yoga instructor who’s taught in schools.


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Spoiler

 

Nah the k-12 version consists of tame torture poses and sniffing each other's farts ala dutch oven.

 

I was just looking for an excuse to post something like this lol

 

It should have been a sign when the south lost the war to stop putting their trust in god.

 

Parents set in on your kids classes and you'll realize it will take more than Jesus to help.

 

I will repeat again that the first commandment is
“Thou shalt have no other God but me”
That many are claiming this is just innocuous and good morals for children while arguing against grooming and indoctrination is a fine example of how many blind themselves by ideology.

Consider a child whose family doesn’t follow Judeo Christian religious views or to no religious views.

this goes to a frequent point that many argue for personal freedoms when it comes to there traditional values but are all for the state imposing and restricting others values.

 

I don't know how you can say "The state shouldn't do x" and "but, it's ok if the state does x" in the same breath.

 

It’s the Republican way…what else could you expect?

 

In contrast to some of y'all who are always trigggggered to the max, some people are able to disagree with something, but not be overly upset about it.

 

right on! HAIL SATAN! 666!

if right wingers (most of whom seem to do a poor job of following the teachings of jesus) want the 10 commandments in every school then the 7 fundamental tenants of satanism should also be displayed. and dont forget the five pillars of islam!



ASSALAMU ALAIKUM EVERYONE!!!

 

If you've read my responses to you in many threads I think you'd be hard-pressed to call me "trigggggered". I try to maintain a calm, respectful demeanor most of the time.

That said, I don't take the pointless erosion of civil liberties lightly. Further division of American society is all but guaranteed when extremists on all sides dig their heels in. Insisting on state-sanctioned imposition of religion is a basic, fundamental violation of this country's earliest founding principles. Shrugging it off is just as damaging because those who support the display of the 10 commandments in every classroom might not stop there. Under this bill's logic, what is to prevent the display of John 3:16 in every school?

For a voting bloc so concerned with things that should be taught at home, religious conservatives sure are eager to stand in the way between other parents and their children's spiritual development.

 

I didn't mean you.

 

Right wing commandments

1. Thou shalt not expose anyone including your children to your beliefs
2. Thou shalt accept my religious beliefs being forced upon you and your children

 

Is this argument going to work for gun control debates? "Yeah, yeah, second amendment and whatever, but a gun registry is pretty harmless."

 

I think I have posted a lot on this. I'm probably more anti-gun than the staunchest Democrats.