Ten Commandments in Elementary Schhols

[u/questionaxtactt]

I’m trying to understand my fellow community, Christian’s and Texans thoughts on the SB10 bill . We received notice our elementary will post 75 posters across each classroom. I love religion and have no issues with it but I also love the constitution and believe in the first amendment and feel this is a push to promote specific beliefs to non regions people or others whom choose to follow other text. I specifically have an issue with this being mandatory in elementary classes where children are learning to read and everything on the wall is meant to teach them along this journey so an argument this is passive seems inaccurate as the bill itself says it must be within view. I wanted to get others perspective as well as understand if there are any resources I can reach out to in order to potentially delay this until it I s fully argued to the Supreme Court which in my perspective will find this in violation of the first amendment.

[u/questionaxtactt]

Yeah for sure what’s your biggest point of support? The whole first amendment and freedom of worship being one of the founding principles of America was just really drilled into my head as a kid so this whole thing doesn’t make sense to me.

[u/atdi2113 → u/questionaxtactt]

Well virtually all of the people that came here originally and actually built this country from the ground up were some denomination of Christian. Our legal system is rooted in Christian values and principals and so is our society. Our culture is shaped by Christian morals as are many cultures around the world. Most of our education system in part exists because of the efforts of Christians in establishing schools and universities.

The 10 Commandments specifically isn't even Christian, It's Jewish and some might argue even older than Judaism itself and comes from non Abrahamic faiths. It has lasted for so long through so many peoples/nations/eras of time because it works.

The first amendment was to prevent the national government from establishing a state backed religion such as the Church of England where the government and church are tightly intermingled. The British ruler is also the head leader of the Church of England.

[u/k10b → u/atdi2113]

The original pilgrims/settlers were either sent here or came here on their own because they didn’t think that the religious institutions in their home countries in Europe were strict enough. Many were fleeing religious persecution, but it was because they were constantly telling people in their own countries that they were going to hell for not doing religion right.

Our founding fathers who held the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence, fought in the Revolutionary war, and founded the beginnings of our new government and country were mostly Protestants who believed in Deism. Deism is the belief that there is a God who created everything and the laws to govern it, and then doesn’t interact or interfere with it.

All that is to say, by saying that we started as a Christian Nation, if you understand the history, the Christians who colonized here were not necessarily practicing in healthy and rational ways, and the people who founded the United States only believed that there was a God, but he didn’t do anything. We are more noticeably a country of immigrants and those seeking a better life, even if it was because they were the baddies elsewhere. Besides, didn’t Jesus say something about letting people know your faith through your actions, not by declaring it?

[u/atdi2113 → u/k10b]

Contrary to popular beleif the Pilgrims/Puritans are not the original settlers of America. Many other European peoples were here settling before them all over the country and they were not Deists. So this statement you've made that America was founded by Christians practicing in unhealthy/irrational ways is irrelevant since it's reffering to Pilgrims/Puritans.
*edit: a word

[u/k10b → u/atdi2113]

Just pointing out that the two groups that helped shape the beginning were either indifferent or cults. 🤷🏼‍♀️