#tencommandments — Public Fediverse posts

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Post the #TenCommandments with the “Sermon on the Mount” by Jesus over it, with “UPDATED!” in big, red, block letters! 😂

#Resist #fascism in #USpol hilariously!

The Ten Commandments movie (1956) is a masterpiece.

I hadn't seen the movie since I was a tyke.

I watched it again and I was mesmerized.

Vintage movies and musicals are much better than any of the modern cinematic brain rot.

#Movies #Video #Films #Vintage #Retro #NowPlaying #Cinema #Nostalgia #TenCommandments #Moses #Bible #Israel #Egypt #History

https://www.europesays.com/people/234743/ We have sinned: After Benjamin Netanyahu, the 10 Commandments offer a path toward teshuva #BenjaminNetanyahu #Israel #palestinians #TenCommandments #TheOctober7Massacre #YomKippur

When fulfilling first & great #Commandment #JesusChrist gave in #Matthew 22:37, equates to top half of #TenCommandments, then I naturally fulfill #MAT 22:39 which equates to rest of the Ten Commandments and beyond. He rewrites entire #Bible in four verses more clearly than it was. MAT 22:37-40 🔥🔥🔥

Martin Luther, 16th-century reformer, on Psalm 1:2's meditating day and night: "Thou shalt not kill" isn't merely prohibition, it's the positive duty of kindness and gentleness toward neighbour. Today this gets rebranded as "biblical manhood," where duty runs only to one's household, and Christian counseling rehearses grievances against entire classes of people so we can watch their demise more comfortably. A bold reworking of "meditate on the law of the Lord."

#tencommandments #lutheran

Before #HollywoodoftheNorth was claimed by #Canada, #SantaBarbara went by that name as hundreds of silent and western films were produced in #SantaBarbara, including #CecilBDeMille’s #TenCommandments. #photography #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #bwphotography #travel #photos #entertainment

Phillip Medhurst presents 144/402 James Tissot Bible c 1899 Moses destroys the tables of the Ten Commandments Exodus 32:19 Jewish Museum New York https://phillipmedhurst.com/2017/08/05/phillip-medhurst-presents-144788-james-tissot-bible-c-1899-moses-destroys-the-tables-of-the-ten-commandments-exodus-3219-jewish-museum-new-york/ #Aaron, #Bible, #BookOfExodus, #Decalogue, #Exodus, #JamesTissot, #Moses, #OldTestament, #Sinai, #StoneTablets, #TablesOfTheLaw, #Tanakh, #TenCommandments, #Tissot, #Torah

The justices are expected to decide in coming months whether to take up the case, which is being closely watched as conservatives…work to expand #religious “rights” [ #Christian #evangelism ] in public spaces & opponents battle them in court. In April, a conservative appeals court upheld the law in a narrowly divided opinion.

#SCOTUS #law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #SeparationOfChurchAndState #TenCommandments #education #PublicSchools #schools #Texas

#CivilLiberties groups Monday asked #SCOTUS to hear their challenge of a #Texas #law requiring that all #PublicSchools’ classrooms display the #TenCommandments, potentially setting up a landmark clash over the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.

#Constitution #EstablishmentClause #education #schools

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

#SCOTUS asked to hear case on #Texas #law requiring #TenCommandments in #schools


The case could set up a landmark clash over the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.

With this #SupremeCourt, I truly fear the outcome.

#law #Constitution #EstablishmentClause #education #PublicSchools

#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/4xaYNcK

The three women of different (or no) faiths all want the same thing. A recently filed attempt to remove #Christian teachings from #PublicSchools used #StateLaw - not federal - and is awaiting #appeal.
(Christians know they're breaking the law. But they're convinced that we're possessed by #demons, so they don't care. Hard to argue with these people.)
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #DEI #ChristoFascism #parental #rights #TenCommandments #ReligiousFreedom #freedom #from #religion
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/31/texas-ten-commandments-lawsuit-houston-parental-rights/

Calling Out the Church Is an Act of Witness

“Why are you calling the church out and making them look so bad?” someone asked me after I preached about the church’s lack of justice. “The people you’re preaching to probably don’t even need to hear that message. You were likely just preaching to the choir and calling out rare extremists.”

I always feel a bit gaslighted when people tell me this. I wish I had screenshotted all of the insane posts I saw from Christians I knew during the pandemic. The “rare” extremists are apparently many of my friends. I grew up with them. I played at their houses. They taught me who Jesus was. And now that they had been socially and politically provoked, I was observing in them an unimaginable behavior I didn’t know they were capable of.

To some extent, I need to speak out on these issues for evangelistic reasons, as the world needs to see a pastor address such behavior. Unbelievers think that the “rare” extremist is what Christianity looks like because they have seen the same posts I have. I also need to speak out to save myself. If I allow this kind of stuff to go on without saying anything, then I become complacent—and I can’t handle that. People need to know that Christians aren’t all like that. They need to know that Jesus looks different than what’s being presented to them.

To represent God wrongly is what it means to take the Lord’s name in vain, and it was such a big deal to God that he made it one of the Ten Commandments. In the Old Testament, the Israelites bore the name of Yahweh just by being Israelites. Wherever they went and whatever they did, they were to be a specific representation of the name Yahweh. They were to have the character of Yahweh, do justice like Yahweh, farm like Yahweh, party like Yahweh, and take care of the oppressed like Yahweh. They failed over and over and over again until Yahweh eventually divorced his abusive wife, Israel. They had not done a good job of portraying Yahweh to the world, and they had taken his name in vain through their misrepresentation. Christians do the same thing.

So why do I speak about justice to a world that doesn’t always want to hear about it?

I speak because someone has to bear witness to it.

There's no food shortage. There are #access and #allocation misalignments. There is #bad #design. Going to keep pushing the #TenCommandments as tactical advice. As sound #design. Throw the morality out because it didn't work. How can you bother Infinity? LOL it gave advice for our sake not IT's. smh

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There's no food shortage. There are #access and #allocation misalignments. There is #bad #design. Going to keep pushing the #TenCommandments as tactical advice. As sound #design. Throw the morality out because it didn't work. How can you bother Infinity? LOL it gave advice for our sake not IT's. smh

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https://www.europesays.com/people/155904/ JD Vance rejects arguments against Texas’ Ten Commandments law #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #JoeRogan #TenCommandments

A quotation from Vonnegut

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
A Man Without A Country, ch. 9 (2005)

More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/385…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #Beatitudes #Christianity #churchandstate #Decalogue #hypocrisy #Jesus #mercy #Moses #peace #religion #TenCommandments

#Philosophy #Religion #FirstCommandment #ReligionIsPoison #Theology #TenCommandments #Christianity

Whately—Puritan, advocate for the poor—identifies a self-deception: resolving to avoid every evil while neglecting equal determination to perform every duty. Sins of omission; affirmative precepts. These count.

Some today make memes about the danger of complacency with sin. Omissions involving the poor rarely make that list.

#puritan #tencommandments #biblestudy

A quotation from Thomas More

God has said, “Thou shalt not kill”; shall we kill so readily for the theft of a bit of small change? Perhaps it will be argued that God’s law against killing does not apply where human laws allow it. But then what prevents men from making other laws in the same way — perhaps even laws legalizing rape, adultery, and perjury? God has taken from each person the right not only to kill another, but even to kill himself. If mutual consent to human laws on manslaughter entitles men freely to exempt their agents from divine law and allows them to kill where he has given no example, what is this but preferring the law of man to the law of God?
 
[Deus uetuit occidi quenquam, & nos tam facile occidimus ob ademptam pecuniolam! Quod si quis interpretetur, illo dei iussu interdictam necis potestatem, nisi quatenus humana lex declaret occidendum, quid obstat quo minus homines eodem modo constituant inter se, quatenus stuprum admittendum sit, adulterandum, peierandum! Siquidem quum deus non alienae modo, uerum etiam suae cuique mortis ius ademerit, si hominum inter se consensus de mutua cede, certis placitis consentientium, adeo debet ualere, ut illius praecepti uinculis eximat suos satellites, qui sine ullo exemplo dei, eos interemerint, quos humana sanctio iussit occidi; an non hoc pacto praeceptum illud dei tantum iuris est habiturum, quantum humana iura permiserint!]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/84007/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #capitalpunishment #deathpenalty #Decalogue #divinejustice #divinewill #execution #God #killing #law #TenCommandments

Rockwall County Unveils Ten Commandments Monument

Rockwall County, Texas, unveiled a privately funded Ten Commandments monument on Saturday, May 25, 2026, near its courthouse.

#RockwallCounty, #TenCommandments, #TexasNews, #Courthouse, #ReligiousFreedom

https://newsletter.tf/rockwall-county-ten-commandments-monument-unveiled/

A new Ten Commandments monument was placed on the Rockwall County Courthouse grounds on Saturday, May 25, 2026. It was paid for by private donations.

#RockwallCounty, #TenCommandments, #TexasNews, #Courthouse, #ReligiousFreedom
https://newsletter.tf/rockwall-county-ten-commandments-monument-unveiled/

#MAGA religious leaders erect a golden statue of #Trump at his #Doral golf club.

The cautionary tale of the golden calf from Exodus 32 is instructive here. The golden idol ends up ground to powder and the worshippers forced to eat it.

#Falseidols #goldenstatue #tencommandments

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gold-statue-disgust/

Attorney general announces investigation into #school districts for compliance with #TenCommandments law

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2026-05-07/attorney-general-announces-investigation-into-school-districts-for-compliance-with-ten-commandments-law

After an appeals court reversed an injunction prohibiting several districts from hanging the Ten Commandments posters in classrooms, Paxton announced he will investigate the districts previously protected by the injunction. The investigation includes six #Houston-area school districts

Thought for today “Not learning to do according to the abominations of some nations” (May 01)

9 When thou comest to the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found in thee him causing his son or his daughter to pass through in fire, divining divinations, practicing magic, and taking omens and a sorcerer,
11 And charming a spell, and asking of a necromancer, and a wizard, and seeking to the dead.
12 For every one doing these things is an abomination to Jehovah and on account of these abominations, Jehovah thy God destroys them from thy face.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues (J. E. Smith, trans.; Dt 18:9–12). (1876). American Publishing Company.

Before the people entered the land, Moses made it clear how they were not to hear from God.In the previous chapters, we have seen how God gave the Ten Words or Ten Commandments and how Moses warned them against paganism. Earlier, he had said to the people not to worship those gods of the people around them, because they had to worship only the One True God.

5 Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;
6 And doing kindness to thousands to them loving me and to them watching my commands.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not cleanse him who shall take his name in vain.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues (J. E. Smith, trans.; Ex 20:5–7). (1876). American Publishing Company.

Around them, they saw man-made gods of wood and how people bowed down to them, but how the people of God did find their God.

14 For thou shalt not worship another God: for Jehovah, his name is Jealous; he is a jealous God.
15 Lest thou shalt make a covenant to those dwelling in the land and they committed fornication after their gods, and sacrificed to their gods, and call to thee, and thou didst eat from his sacrifice;
16 And thou didst take from his daughters to thy sons, and they committed fornication after their gods, and they made thy sons commit fornication after their gods.
17 Thou shalt make to thee no molten gods.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues (J. E. Smith, trans.; Ex 34:14–17). (1876). American Publishing Company.

28 And ye served there gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which shall not see, and shall not hear, and shall not eat, and shall not breathe.
29 And thou sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and thou didst find, for ye shall seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues (J. E. Smith, trans.; Dt 4:28–29). (1876). American Publishing Company.

Moses had asked the people who left Egypt with him to keep remembering their Saviour.

18 And remember Jehovah thy God; for he gave to thee strength to make wealth in order to set up his covenant, which he sware to our fathers, as this day.

19 And it was, if forgetting, thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and thou wentest after other gods, and served them and worshipped to them, I testified against you this day, that perishing, ye shall perish.
20 As the nations which Jehovah destroys before you, so shall ye be destroyed, because ye will not hear to the voice of Jehovah your God.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues (J. E. Smith, trans.; Dt 8:18–20). (1876). American Publishing Company.

Here again, we find Moses issuing another stern warning against worshipping false gods. This time He is quite specific about child sacrifice and all aspects of the occult. Israel is to be a no-go area for the black arts of witchcraft and spiritism. On the contrary, the whole nation is to live in the light of God’s word.

They had to remember that anyone who practices divination, or tells fortunes or interprets omen, is not to be found among God’s people (v 10).  In the ancient world, there were many ways to come to know what would happen. Many attempted to know the future, such as the outcome of a battle or of an illness.

Augury (deriving from the official Roman augur), belomancy or divination, was first systematised by the Chaldeans. The Greeks were addicted to it; and among the Romans no important action of state was undertaken without the advice of the augurs.
Belomancy attempted to interpret the way that arrows would fall when they were shaken out of a quiver. Hepatoscopy (only once mentioned in the Bible) was interpreting the configurations of the liver of a sacrificial animal. There was also a type of divination called oleomancy, the practice of divination by pouring oil into water and observing the resulting patterns. Some would attempt to discern divine messages by reading the flight patterns of birds or cloud formations.

Behind all these efforts at sorcery, divination, and communicating with the dead is the desire to know, and thereby control, the future. Interestingly, these practices are not forbidden because they do not work. Rather, the Bible records cases in which the magicians of Egypt were able to duplicate some of the plagues and in which King Saul learned the outcome of a battle by consulting Samuel’s ghost.

The issue is that the people are not looking to God for what they seek. God assigned prophets to communicate to his people clearly and unambiguously, in ways that did not require strange and esoteric methods. Today we have His completed Word in the Bible. When the people of God go to these other methods, they are trying to circumvent God, and it is another form of unfaithfulness to Him.

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Preceding

1. Worship and worshipping
2. Today’s Thought “To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? ” (June 22)
3. Today’s thought “nonsense surrounding the many gods” (July 28)
4. False opposite true worship which exalts the God of Israel
5. Memorizing wonderfully 8 The commandments
6. Thought for today “Words of God given for free, but also for some cut off” (April 27)
7. Thought for today “When there shall arise a person doing spectacular things” (April 27)
8. Thought for today “Not to plant any tree or to set up a pillar” (April 29)

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Additional reading

1. Only One God
2. Worshipping God

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Appeals Court Allows Ten Commandments Displays in Texas Schools

Appeals court says Texas schools can display Ten Commandments. Ruling affects parents and students regarding religion in classrooms. What happens next?

#TexasSchools, #TenCommandments, #CourtRuling, #ReligiousFreedom, #PublicEducation

https://newsletter.tf/texas-schools-display-ten-commandments-court-ruling/

A US appeals court ruled Tuesday, April 21, 2026, that Texas schools can display the Ten Commandments. This reverses a previous decision that blocked the displays.

#TexasSchools, #TenCommandments, #CourtRuling, #ReligiousFreedom, #PublicEducation
https://newsletter.tf/texas-schools-display-ten-commandments-court-ruling/

#Texas can require #TenCommandments in classrooms, court says

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/20/texas-ten-commandments-5th-circuit-court/

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state can enforce its 2025 law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me” sure sounds like a pretty clear case of Texas attempting to force a religion into schools #TenCommandments

Can we just not?

#Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-ten-commandments-law-public-schools-scotus-43e679cf473e6b98b091d575578824eb

Spurgeon—particular Baptist, London—points out that certain businesses cannot function if employees tell the truth. Firing offence. He adds that professing Christians are keeping the whole operation running, lacking courage to say we want nothing to do with this. Pastoral warnings about workplace complicity are somewhat rarer than warnings about other sins. The stamp, apparently, must run.
#christian #baptist #tencommandments

@newsguyusa

#Trump violating the first commandment.

“I am the Lord thy God. Thou shall not have strange gods before me.”

#TenCommandments #idolatry

Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments be displayed in public schools struck down by federal judge

Baton Rouge, La. — An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Arkansas #Headlines #TenCommandments #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/440779/

Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Classroom

https://murica.website/2026/03/judge-blocks-arkansas-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-every-classroom/

Martin Luther taught that covetousness—the restless desire for more—must be put to death. The Christian test is plain: the Golden Rule, dealing with others as we would be dealt with, the foundation of equity and justice.

Yet today complaints of unfairness are often dismissed as envy, and the charge of coveting is turned upon the complainant rather than the sin.

#lutheran #lcms #tencommandments #christian #equity #justice

A sacred symbol that still inspires courage, justice, and faith across centuries. The Ark’s story reminds us that true power rests in moral strength. #ArkOfTheCovenant #BiblicalHistory #SacredArtifact #TenCommandments #TempleOfSolomon #AncientIsrael #FaithAndLaw #ReligiousSymbolism #SacredHistory
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/ark-of-the-covenant-the.html

Samuel Willard, Puritan in Boston, looked at “Thou shalt not kill” and sighed: it reaches the workplace too. Cruel masters who grind the belly and lash the back ruin both body and soul. Oh, and Judgment Day will remember.

So tell me—how do you treat the ones whose labor keeps your life afloat?

#puritans #tencommandments #workers #reformedscholastics #reformedtheology #southmeetinghouse

Appeals Court Allows Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law in Schools to Proceed

Louisiana schools can now display the Ten Commandments after a court decision lifted a ban. The law faces further challenges.

#LouisianaLaw, #TenCommandments, #SchoolLaw, #AppealsCourt, #EducationPolicy

https://newsletter.tf/louisiana-schools-can-display-ten-commandments-after-appeals-court-lifts-ban/

A court has allowed Louisiana schools to display the Ten Commandments, reversing an earlier ban. This law was first put in place in 2025.

#LouisianaLaw, #TenCommandments, #SchoolLaw, #AppealsCourt, #EducationPolicy

https://newsletter.tf/louisiana-schools-can-display-ten-commandments-after-appeals-court-lifts-ban/

"Don't talk to me about morality." #TomPowellJr. isn't having the "indoctrination" double standard. While politicians in #Texas and beyond push to force the #TenCommandments into every elementary classroom, they seem to be forgetting the most important part. Following them youtu.be/O2OGnVi8FwY?...

The Hypocrisy of Mandatory Sch...

Andreas Hyperius, a 16th-century Flemish Lutheran/Reformed theologian, reads “You shall not steal” with unnerving specificity: withholding wages, shaving pay, defaulting on what is owed. His moral clarity assumes obedience reaches into ordinary economic life—even where raising such concerns makes people bristle. Scripture leaves little room for comfortable evasions.

#christian #lutheran #reformedscholastics #faith #tencommandments

@The74
#Conservatives claim the justification for putting the #TenCommandments in classrooms is that it's "the basis of our laws" (it's not) and therefore a matter of "civics not religion".

But ONLY THREE (arguably 4) Commandments are reflected in law: Thou shalt not lie (perjury), kill (murder) or steal (robbery).

There is no legal argument for teaching "Thou shalt not have other God's before me." or "Keep the Sabbath holy."

T****'s a good model for "Thou shalt not commit Adultery" though.

Richard Greenham, an English Puritan, taught that the Eighth Commandment reaches far beyond burglary: theft includes harsh bargaining and deceitful dealing. We praise “voluntary” transactions and mock moral limits, yet still sense when dealings are plainly unmerciful. Oddly, we resent both the theft and the commandment that names it.

How do you refuse to steal in ordinary life?
#christian #freedom #tencommandments #puritan #reformedscholastics

#Indiana #Republicans are reviving a decades-old fight over a #TenCommandments monument

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/indiana-republicans-are-reviving

The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race is going to be an LGBTQ+ ally

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-james-talarico-lgbtq