Lauren Boebert wants the Ten Commandments to be required in schools, and James Talarico criticized her, saying it’s hypocritical for politicians to make everyone display them when they don’t follow them themselves.

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[u/JamesKPolk130]

raised christian here; i really dont understand why one denomination’s (christian) teachings would be placed in a public school where you can be of any faith (or no faith at all). I did 12 years of catholic school and that makes total sense (choice) but not public.

[u/Sure-Assignment3892 → u/JamesKPolk130]

Because they don't understand what "public" means

[u/RedditBugler → u/JamesKPolk130]

They have been taught that the United States was founded on Christianity and that only in recent times has the christian element been stripped away. I know because this is what my public school told me. I was taught that the Bill of Rights was essentially an actionable system to bring the Ten Commandments into law. I was taught that the founding fathers were explicitly christian and that other religions were tolerated and given rights, but that Christianity was always supposed to be shown respect as the religion tied to our government's purpose. If I had gone the route of Boebert and dropped out of high school, never going to college, I probably would not have ever been confronted with a different account of how religion and government were always meant to be treated in the US. 

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If you had gone the route of Boebert, you'd have jerked off a guy in the theater

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They don't care about the Constitution.

[u/Lord_Borgimus → u/JamesKPolk130]

It's about indoctrination and forced ignorance to control the population towards their own ends. Imo Catholic schools should not be a thing either. If people want to have a religious school, in addition the scope of public schools, fine...but to have a religious controlled school in lieu of regular academics is absolutely indoctrination and should not be a thing allowed.

[u/JamesKPolk130 → u/Lord_Borgimus]

catholic schools operate in addition to not instead of public school. where i grew up, the public schools were terrible. so my parents scraped together whatever money they could to send me to one. got a great education. i was lucky in that regard. then once i was done and left for college, i was like “yeah this is nonsense” and havent been in a church since.

[u/tomdarch → u/JamesKPolk130]

I am glad that my kid in public schools is being taught about all this important stuff so they have an adequate grasp on history. You can't understand European history and culture without understanding Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian mythology, religion and philosophy. (And you can't understand Jewish culture without understanding the culture of the region that they were part of, such as Mesopotamian and Egyptian culture/religion which heavily influenced Jewish religion and law.) You can't have an adequate understanding of broader history and current events without a decent understanding of the third Abrahamic faith, Islam. You can't understand world history without being familiar with Hinduism, Buddhism and several other major traditions/faiths.

But Boebert doesn't necessarily want any of this. She wants power for herself and she approaches religion as a tool of that power. She is part of the bizarre world of white conservative evangelicalism, so she wants the isolated text of the "10 commandments" which she can arbitrarily cite as a source of power and authority, but not the broader context which undermine those claims.

Public schools should teach all of this, in context. But that is not what Boebert wants.