The Ten Commandments law

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A while ago (I forget) Louisiana was voting to have a law that requires all school classrooms to have a copy of the Ten Commandments from preschool to high school. It did not pass, unsurprisingly. But now it’s going again with Texas, but I am starting to wonder if this could actually be beneficial.
Of course it would not be pushing for the Christian God in commandments 1-4 in public schools, as it would be unconstitutional, but if we modified the Ten Commandments, i don’t see a reason why not to pass the law. I don’t think “Do not murder” would be on there necessarily, but it’d be something like, don’t say mean things. This would go for the other commandments to. What do y’all think of this?
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The separation of church and state has led to Bible ignorance in America. It will help if they reintroduce religion in schools.
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Maybe, but perhaps not just one religion. They need to have religion classes that talk about history of religion but not so necessarily having a bible class per say
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The national religion in America is Christianity.
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According to the first admendment 
The USA has no partisan to a specific religion
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Roughly 69% of Americans identify as Christians.
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Yeah but the government doesnt
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Yes, so clever that GOD chiselled them on to rocks up a mountain so that Moses could lug them back into downtown promised land.

You'd have thought that a letter through Moses's letter box would have been far easier.

Or even just a general visit and a speech from the Big Guy.

But no...As ever, up a mountain in secret.

And quite frankly, if you belief the tale of the ten commandments, then you will also believe  that my granny is a Pink Cake Monster from  Planet Bakeroo.
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There is no proof against it
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The Jews failed to follow the 10 commandments.
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Everybody has broken every single commandment in their life, perhaps even every year, or even month, I’d even push some every week
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God repeatedly punished the Jews during their history. It’s in the Bible.
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correct

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The Jews sought revenge on his son Jesus.
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Incorrect, the Pharisees wanted to kill him to get rid of the threat to their power. If the Jews were mad at God they wouldn’t want to be jews
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There is no proof for, therefore there is no need for proof against.

Otherwise, like I stated about my granny, I can make up any nonsense  and say that you cannot disprove it.
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Christianity is the most archaeological proven religion 
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Well, Christianity is an organisation that conforms with necessary religious criteria and is therefore undeniable defined and classified as a religion.

Therefore archaeology is somewhat irrelevant.

Whether or not the basis of any religion has any credibility as an accurate explanation for human creation and existence is another issue and cannot be resolved by archaeological interpretation.

The ten commandments were obviously compiled by men for men, under the auspices of religious dogma.

Though I would point out that the ten commandments were supposedly given to Moses some 1500 years before the foundation of Christianity, and therefore are not specifically relative to the Christian religion...More so Judaism, relative to tribal Israelites who migrated from Egypt at the time.
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Well if you have a book that speaks of locations and cities or artifacts, nd they were discovered 3000 years later, then we can assume that book wasn’t a fairy tale.
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True, though there are many such books that are similarly embellished with fantasy and magic...They are referred to as Mythologies.

So we can dig up and date stuff but we cannot verify either God or Thor.

And even if the original commandments are unearthed, we will not know the identity of the stonemason.
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You can’t verify anything in life with certainty, Christianity is a religion of faith, yes it is unable to be proven for certainty but it is unable to be disproven 
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The Jews would disagree with your conclusion.
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Well I’m not jewish
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So you disagree with them.
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yes
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But Christianity has its roots in Judaism.
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Still it is veeerrryyyy different
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It shouldn’t be. Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Matthew 5:17

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But the entirety of the Torah doesn’t apply to Christianity anymore because the New Testament acts as a permanent replacement to the temporary Old Testament 
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Jesus was born, lived, and died a Jew. During his lifetime, he preached within first-century Judaism, centering his teachings on the Torah and the Prophets.