Louisianna: State Law Requires Ten Commandments Displayed in Every Classroom


Saying Moses is the origin of law in the U.S., Gov. Landry of Louisianna signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in his state. This includes first grade. 

The first joke in this is the Governor saying Moses started a world which followed "laws." Anyone who believes the tale of Moses does not understand the mythology of the Bible. Jews latched onto or made up the entire Moses story to bolster their own government authority or legitimacy. There is no information corroborating anything about Moses.

We don't know where the Ten Commandments originally came from. We only know societies long before recorded history had rules the allowed societies to flourish. Societies did not allow wholesale robbery and murder. Any that did soon disappeared.

What is happening in Louisianna is a rerun of the 1950's. Then, Cecil B. Demills, producer of the movie, The Ten Commandments, funded an effort to put the Ten Commandments in all homes. That effort was followed by a program funding granite versions being placed on public property around the U.S. One in on the City Hall lawn in Fargo, ND. A group of us tried for years to get it removed but failed.

These efforts to get propaganda posted in public places goes on and on. When I was a Mayor, a group want the U.S. Constitution posted in all public buildings. I assume they are still posted there but who reads such a thing?

I had a humorous experience looking for and finally photographing the Ten Commandments monument in the ND Peace Garden. A friend in Washington DC was putting together a book with pictures of all such monuments. When the Peace Garden monument was unvailed the star of the Ten Commandments movie, Charlton Heston, was present.  When I arrived at the Peace Garden I asked staff were the monument is located. The first one or two people did not know. Eventually, I found it between a parking lot and a tennis court. It is forlorn and forgotten.

If the Governor of Louisianna is successful in putting version of the Ten Commandments in classrooms it's a safe bet many will end up on a wall behind a coat rack. 

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