The North Dakota House of Representatives voted down a bill Wednesday that would have mandated the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school cafeteria and state-funded college.
The bill was defeated on a 53-38 vote.
I thought you all could use some good news, no matter how small.
The eternal dance of performative politics twirls on. Legislators clutch parchment commandments like talismans against societal decay, yet their holy theater crumbles under constitutional reality checks. This pantomime of moral posturing reveals more about political desperation than divine guidance—a last gasp to implant traditional authority in institutions increasingly viewed as secular cathedrals of woke indoctrination.
Meanwhile, the real commandments scroll endlessly on glowing rectangles: Thou shalt manufacture outrage. Thou shalt confuse engagement with virtue. Our digital golden calves demand constant sacrifice, rendering stone tablets quaint relics. The culture war rages, but the battlefield has shifted to algorithmic feeds where commandments come in 15-second chunks between thirst traps and fake news.
The veneration of the Ten Commandments is so strange. Like, one of them literally tells people not to make graven images of ANYTHING, but I don’t see any Christian iconoclasts. They just pick and choose what they follow.
The article has some funny quotes (and not so funny, sad ones), but here is an example of a funny one:
“If putting the Ten Commandments in the schools would save one life, would it be worth it?” said Rep. Jeff Hoverson, R-Minot, the bill’s chief sponsor. “If it saved one marriage, would it be worth it?”
I guess they could save lives if you held them up as a shield when other kids shot at you? Also, someone was cheated on, lol.
Fun fact, Christians commit more crime than atheists. Save a life, deconvert
Love to casually compare saving lives to saving marriages. Totally equivalent 👍
I went to catholic schools growing up that had the ten commandments displayed. I guarantee that they didn’t save one life or marriage. They only did one thing, cause all of us to ask questions about wtf they were saying. Like, what does covet really mean and was it translated well? Or, tell people not to kill while offering up sacrifices is kind of weird? All of these can be interpreted so many ways, wtf?
Catholics looked at the commandment to not make graven images or worship them as a challenge.
Lol. And to not covet someone else’s wife, all’s fair for singles and/or minors.
I would get in so much trouble discussing the commandments with my class. They would quickly follow up this law with one forbidding anybody from talking about them.
Every time they attempt this we need Church of Satan demanding the same treatment. Usually that shuts them up pretty quick.
Specifically The Satanic Temple, who are political activists. The Church of Satan is a different group.
