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dedl67

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32. "Confronted with the sixth-highest murder rate in the country...."

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jan 21, 2026, 09:47 AM

21 hrs ago

... Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, installed a two-and-a half-ton monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state courthouse in Montgomery. When a federal court ordered Justice Moore to remove the monument, he refused. Not wanting to have an obvious hand in actually separating church and state, the U. S. Congress amended an appropriations bill to ensure funds could not be used for the monument's removal.

Quoted from Sam Harris "The End of Faith".

I am not sure of the date of this or if it helped to reduce Alabama's murder rate.

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Texas to defend law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms [View all] BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP

It's illegal AF. Period. End of debate. Initech Tuesday #1

No one's pretend sky god means sh*t to me, no one's NotHardly Tuesday #16

Gonna force that religion on them brats!!! hamsterjill Tuesday #2

How about a law Traildogbob Tuesday #3

Thank goodness we have a president who follows those teachings.... IcyPeas Tuesday #4

Force Paxton to testify under oath about how many commandments he's broken. jls4561 Tuesday #5

LOL...Perfect NotHardly Tuesday #17

Christian? tfury653 Tuesday #6

Christian Nationalists don't believe in separation of Church and State. The 10 commandments haven't stopped Republicans. ChicagoTeamster Tuesday #7

There is only one commandment. Thou shalt not make commandments. twodogsbarking Tuesday #8

The first rule of fight club, Don't talk about fight club. ChicagoTeamster Tuesday #9

You had better stop talking about the fight club. It's a rule. twodogsbarking Tuesday #10

If they told me to do that in my 1st grade classroom BigmanPigman Tuesday #11

Or.. PikaBlue Tuesday #12

I taught 6th grade for 2 years and 1st grade for over 15. BigmanPigman Tuesday #13

Does Ken Paxton know the 10 Vthestate Tuesday #14

Besides being Wrong stillspkg Tuesday #15

I Especially Like Telling 1st-Graders Not To Murder, Commit Adultery, Or.... ColoringFool Tuesday #18

I've never figured out the first commandment. chouchou Tuesday #19

Stop helping. We can joke later. SalamanderSleeps Yesterday #21

Why does not anyone actually, actually, believe anyone nice lives at the Yellowstone Club at BigSky, Montana? SalamanderSleeps Yesterday #20

I digress. SalamanderSleeps Yesterday #22

Tell the court you will drop the case if... Grins Yesterday #23

Christian Nationalists shove your evil book and commandments where the sun don't shine. SamKnause Yesterday #24

Beneath every one of the 10 commandments, cite a specific example of Trump Deminpenn Yesterday #25

Which version? Catholic or Protestant? There are differences. Norrrm 23 hrs ago #26

Adding an eleventh.. surfered 23 hrs ago #27

Raygun already copped the 11th BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #28

Your right, make it the 12th surfered 23 hrs ago #29

Or the unlucky 13th BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #31

They should require all elected officials obey them randr 23 hrs ago #30

"Confronted with the sixth-highest murder rate in the country...." dedl67 21 hrs ago #32