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    Ten Commandments in Schools & Sunday Rest by Law: Advice for Christians in 2025
    Ten Commandments in Schools & Sunday Rest by Law: Advice for Christians in 2025
    Ten Commandments in Schools & Sunday Rest by Law: Advice for Christians in 2025
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    Ten Commandments in Schools & Sunday Rest by Law: Advice for Christians in 2025

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    The "hell on earth" scenario engineered over the past five years has reached its objective: It has driven sane, morally-minded citizens to the brink of their tolerance, to the point that they are even willing to scrap the First Amendment to the Constitution in order to prevent such evil from freely surfacing again. "We need to put God back into government", they say. And so the pendulum now begins its swing in that direction.

     

    However, this sudden, sharp reversal toward conservative Christian values is not at all what it seems. "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." (Matthew 24:24)

     

    This book exposes the true spiritual motives and implications underlying Project 2025 and the push for legislation of Christian precepts by the government. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMy Two Cents
    Release dateJul 10, 2024
    ISBN9798227943859
    Ten Commandments in Schools & Sunday Rest by Law: Advice for Christians in 2025

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      Ten Commandments in Schools & Sunday Rest by Law - My Two Cents

      Ten Commandments in Schools

      & Sunday Rest by Law:

      Advice for

      Christians in 2025

      ISBN: 9798227943859

      Copyright ©2024 by My Two Cents

      All Rights Reserved

      No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

      Something on the Horizon

      In June 2024, the State of Louisiana passed House Bill 71 into a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in all public and State-funded school classrooms.1 It is the first U.S. State to pass a law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in schools.2 According to AP News:

      The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in 'large, easily readable font' in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.3

      These posters are required to be in place by the beginning of 2025.4

      As to the exact format of the display of the Ten Commandments in schools, House Bill 71 stipulates the following:

      "The nature of the display shall be determined by each governing authority with a minimum requirement that the Ten Commandments shall be displayed on a poster or framed document that is at least eleven inches by fourteen inches. The text of the Ten Commandments shall be the central focus of the poster or framed document and shall be printed in a large, easily readable font.

      (2) The text shall read as follows:

      'The Ten Commandments

      I AM the LORD thy God.

      Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

      Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven images.

      Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.

      Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

      Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

      Thou shalt not kill.

      Thou shalt not commit adultery.

      Thou shalt not steal.

      Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

      Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.

      Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.' "5

      As you can see, the Commandments are left unnumbered in the text and are broken across the lines in such a way that they could be interpreted as being either the Biblical or the Roman Catholic version, depending on who is reading it.

      Note that, even in the Roman Catholic version, the precept against graven images is still present: It is not that it was entirely taken out, as many mistakenly believe. The problem is that it was removed as a stand-alone commandment and tacked onto the very end of the first commandment, which has the effect of hiding it from view in many cases where an abbreviated version of the decalogue is displayed. This is precisely what leads many to believe that the Biblical Second Commandment was omitted in the Roman Catholic version, and this shows that the change has been quite effective at achieving this aim.

      Statue of Mary and Child

      'Virgin Mary and Child' - wooden statue (19th century) with embroidered clothes

      - Santa Maria delle Grazie a Toledo Church in Naples" by Carlo Raso. Public Domain6

      It is important to note, for reasons that will be explained further, that Governor Landry's momentous action of signing this bill into law took place at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette, Louisiana.7 This, in itself, should not be surprising, as, although statistics from different sources vary, it is clear that a comparatively high percentage of those in the State who profess to follow the Christian faith identify as Roman Catholic.8 9 10 However, the birth of this new law, which effectively engages the power of the State to enforce the precepts of the Church, taking place at a Roman Catholic school in a largely Roman Catholic State is highly significant in its symbolism.

      In its legislation, Louisiana categorizes the Ten Commandments along with other documents that are historically significant, including the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence, as it appeals to legal precedents such as Act No. 602 of the 2006 Regular Session of the Legislature which provided for the secretary of state to publish the Ten Commandments and other historically significant documents for posting in court houses and other public buildings to address 'a need to educate and inform the public as to the history and background of American and Louisiana law'.11

      This characterization of what is primarily and intrinsically a religious document as a historical one in the effort to make its promulgation within schools a legal requirement, it may readily be discerned, is intended to sidestep the prohibition in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which declares that government shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion12 and to which State governments are obliged to adhere.13

      Similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms have been proposed in other States, including Oklahoma, Texas and Utah,14 suggesting that this is a trend that should be expected to grow.

      As justifications for enacting this law, Governor Landry publicly proclaimed that Moses was the original giver of the law15 and asserted that the United States was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, in support of which he cited a letter purportedly written by James Madison expressing that the future of the United States hinged on the capacity of its people to govern themselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.16 However, these statements belie the truth on both of these points:

      Firstly, the original lawgiver (in the Biblical context) was God, not Moses. The Former gave the commandments, and the latter merely relayed them to the people.

      Secondly, according to an article in the Florida Times-Union, as of 2008 when it was written, no such letter of James Madison that Governor Landry purportedly cited from had ever been found among Madison's writings, although the same quotation from that supposed letter had been recognized for decades by those aware of that fact as a core falsehood underlying what has been deemed The Ten Commandments Hoax. According to the article, The false quote itself has been around since the 1950s, but it appears that a 1994 Rush Limbaugh broadcast gave it its current wide circulation.17

      Assuming positive intent on the part of Governor Landry, it goes far and fair enough to say that he apparently took the James Madison quotation at face value without confirming its veracity.

      As for the Founding Fathers' actual views on religion as it pertained to the foundation and governance of the United States, their documented actions have spoken louder than unsubstantiated rumors of their words ever could:

      A historical fact that Governor Landry is also apparently unaware of is that the United States of America, while still in its national infancy, formally and emphatically denied any notion of its having been founded as a Christian nation ― when the sensitive question of the matter was evidently raised ― at the time of its negotiation of a peace treaty with an Islamic one. The treaty, containing the following clause, was signed by President John Adams in 1797:

      As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims],-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

      ―Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America

      and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of

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