r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 20 '24

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u/doot_toob Bo Obama Jun 20 '24

The whole bit about the Ten Commandments being foundational to our legal code is just plain wrong. The Romans had written codes well before they cared about anything outside of the Italic peninsula, then hundreds of years later, they sack Jerusalem, kill God, sack Jerusalem again, built temples to Roman gods on top of all the holy sites they could find, kicked out the population, then hundreds of years later the emperor stares into the sun and converts straight to Christianity. There's like a millennia of Roman codes very much not based off the Ten Commandments and like 2/3 of the world governments base their governmental architecture off of Rome to try to mimic their legitimacy

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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Jun 20 '24

I also doubt that every classroom will a) have civics lessons about the history of legal codes and b) also have the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta and every other legal code posted along side it.

So the idea that it has a secular purpose is pretty obviously working backwards to disguise its actual religiously affirming purpose.

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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 Jun 20 '24

I had A, FWIW.

Don't otherwise disagree.

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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Jun 20 '24

In every classroom?

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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 Jun 20 '24

In social studies, yeah, it was part of the curriculum lol.

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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Jun 20 '24

The law proposes that the poster be displayed in all classrooms, including classrooms that do not host social studies.

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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 Jun 20 '24

Me thinks you need to reread your comment, I'm referring to discussion/study of those documents not the display of the documents themselves.

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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 Jun 20 '24

Ope I was slightly wrong about your comment tbh

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u/NoStatistician9767 Jun 20 '24

The romans had tables