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 …
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I think its going to be great the kids talk about the ten commandments and the seven tenets. Not sure if anyone else will join in.
Fuck off, much as you’d like the USA to be a Christian theocracy, the rest of us aren’t on board with that.
Do a quick web search of “the seven tenets”.
Okay I’m back in haha
New world record, fastest redemption arc
If I was a teacher in AZ I would lead in with how the story of moses was stolen from the neo-assyrian 7th century BC origin story of Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the great who is said to have been the king of the first empire in the world when he started invading and conquering Sumerian city states in the 23rd and 24th century BC.
Or how the very first commandment (“You shall have no other gods before me”) points at the early Henotheism in Judasim (“we accept that other gods exist, but this one god is our main one”). It became monotheist (“our god is the only one that exists”) with Zoroastrian influence from Persia during the second temple period.
So many directions to go with actual history.
