• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    By default people cannot be forced to believe in anything, they either do or they don’t. Having a moral education that’s based in Judaism isn’t the worst, the worst is not having any.

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        8 days ago

        Not the first amendment! But I quickly read it and it didn’t say anything like “Mosaic-based morals won’t be taught as school”.

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          8 days ago

          Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

          Because public schools are funded through tax dollars, that means that funding cannot be used to teach one specific religion over any other.

          I am not pulling this out of my ass, there’s like 200 years of precedence.

          You can put the ten commandments up all over the place at your private school. But as soon as my tax dollars start paying for it, you take that shit down.

          You can teach kids about the ten commandments in public schools, as long as it’s taught in a historical context along with various other religions and Christianity is not given preference.