Ten Commandments in Classrooms

Author: Owen_T
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@RandomChristian6395
Okay from that POV your right, in today’s society it probably wouldn’t be possible and stuff, church and state used to be more mixed,
There is tremendous diversity of faiths in this country, to accommodate that fact requires the freedom of religion from the government, but any further involvement by the Government in religion is going to affect religion adversely.  There are only a few things the government does well, they jack up everything else they touch. 

The relationship between the American people and the government was defined by the fourteenth amendment, and the foundational principles of Freedom and Liberty. Americans have traditionally wanted the government to stay out of our personal lives, what we do in our home is none of their business (as long as it's legal), how we worship is none of their business, we are much better off if the government respects our privacy.  The trend is towards more and more government encroachment, always with negative consequences.

if the world was still for Christ it would be easier.
Even that would be problematic, there are around 30,000 denominations of Christianity, with a large amount of diversity.

There are multiple theocracies in the world today, none of them provides an example of something we want to achieve here.




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I'm glad I'm a Pastafarian.  I hope that they will now teach it in schools.
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@Shila
Judaism is still a religion followed by the Jews competing with Christianity.
So what, the fact that Christianity was a Jewish sect that evolved through syncretism into a separate religion over the centuries has no bearing on your contention that the Jews rejected Jesus, during his lifetime he was a Jew, his followers were Jews, every single word of the Bible was written by a Jew (Luke was a convert), the explosive growth of this Jewish sect was a tremendous acceptance by Jews.

Jesus betrayed the Jews even though he was a Jew and followed Judaism.
No, Jesus did not betray the Jews, he did not start a new religion, Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi within a Judaism that allowed a wide latitude for individual teachers to think independently. Jesus was not a Christian, a new religion based on his life and death evolved long after his death, over time it became Christianity, and it is Christianity that betrayed Jesus and the Jews.

Judaism is a religion of Prophets; Jesus came forth squarely in the Hebrew prophetic tradition as a Prophet who kept Judaism vibrant through criticism of the faith. Religiously, it was an internal affair, Jesus passionately challenged the corruption and legalism of his own beloved Judaism and did so in the tradition of the great Jewish prophets such as Isaiah, Joel, Jeremiah, and Amos and he did so in the social and political context of his day.

No matter how you interpret the account, it was the two individuals, Caiaphas and Pilot who are implicated in the death of Jesus and betrayal.  Jesus fearlessly threatened both a cruel Pilot’s stability of the region and a corrupt Caiaphas’s authority and wealth by scathingly condemning the perverting and betraying nature of all forms of power – social, religious, political, and sexual. That is why he was killed by the Romans, and it is only through stereotyping that leads to bigotry that has turned it into a question of whether “the Jews” or “the Romans” are at fault. 

The foundational Christian concepts of the Incarnation, the virgin birth, a second coming, or his Messiahship did not even exist in the decades following his death, any idea that the Jews of his time rejected these ideas is simply misinformed bigotry.

It is certainly not my intent to contend that what was implicit in His life and was made explicit through theological discourse four hundred years later is not an image of truth; I am one who embraces that truth, but the projection of divisiveness between Jews and Christians into the first century is a betrayal of Jesus by Christianity.


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I'm glad I'm a Pastafarian.  I hope that they will now teach it in schools.
They will, but only to the kids that ride the short bus.
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OMG, you are talking about republicans, aren't you?
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OMG, you are talking about republicans, aren't you?
I think he is talking about Pastafarians.
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OMG, are you a republican?
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OMG, are you a republican?
I am a liberal in Canada.
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I'm glad I'm a Pastafarian.  I hope that they will now teach it in schools.

Our pasta,
who art in a colander,
draining be your noodles.
Thy noodle come,
Thy sauce be yum,
on top some grated Parmesan.

Give us this day our garlic bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trample on our lawns
And lead us not into vegetarianism,
but deliver us some pizza,
for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce,
forever and ever.
R’amen.
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OMG, are you a republican?
I am a liberal in Canada.
The planet you are from has a place called Canada too?
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How did you know she was a Borg?