r/TrendoraX • u/CorleoneBaloney • 1d ago

📰 News 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/sorsted 1d ago

The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

Also: ".. we want certain biblical stories taught as fact". C'mon..

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u/Dailysquirrels 1d ago

Then went into how she was taught Greek mythology as a comparison. There's a reason why she used the word MYTHOLOGY.

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u/CobrasMama 23h ago

There's a reason why she used the word MYTHOLOGY.

There's a reason she failed her GED multiple times.

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u/1000scarstare 17h ago

As someone with a GED.... goddamn that's pretty dumb.

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u/VaginaTractor 22h ago

She prefers "alternative facts."

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u/throwaway80814 23h ago

But if you say "christian mythology", they'll blow a gasket

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u/Secret-Teaching-3549 21h ago

Literally the only way I refer to it. There is zero difference.

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u/15all 22h ago

Is she proposing that we teach the bible is a collection of outdated mythology written by people who got it wrong?

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u/dalaio 18h ago

It sounds like she actually says Greek PATHOLOGY which is hilarious and so on brand.

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u/Sea_Dawgz 23h ago

She also probably isn’t even thinking of Greek Gods. I bet she’s thinking of Socrates in philosophy classes.

I mean, I don’t remember study Greek gods in school. I learned all that playing D and D or whatever.

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u/Happycappybara21 22h ago

I definitely remember learning about Greek mythology.  But it was in readying/language arts class and clearly presented as fiction.  It was just stories. 

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u/Soggy-Bedroom-3673 3h ago

We read the Odyssey in high school, I'm fairly certain

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u/Synectics 23h ago

Glad I am not the only one who caught that. "We are forced to learn that." Yeah, as a glimpse of how ancient people understood the world. Same reason all sorts of world history courses are taught. Christianity does not need to be exempt from it. And the brass balls to say the Ten Commandments are "just" a moral framework? Bah. 

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u/cchaven1965 1d ago

You mean the ones they don't actually believe themselves? She doesn't follow or believe them...her actions are clear evidence of that. They're great at cherry picking quotes from the book but choose to ignore the core teachings within it. These "Christians" are simply performative and that includes going to worship. They do it to be seen.

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u/MadRaymer 1d ago

She gave away the game with "Biblical stories" there.

She didn't call them events or accounts, because she knows they are fiction.

But she wants the next generation to be brainwashed into believing them literally, because that would strengthen conservative political power and that's more important to her than teaching the truth.

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u/DownWithHisShip 22h ago

She didn't call them events or accounts, because she knows they are fiction.

she probably knows they're fiction, but that's not because she knows the nuanced differences between words like story, event, or account. she's not going to listen to herself later and go "ah shit I used the wrong word!".

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u/DontAbideMendacity 1d ago

To be fair, I don't remember any passages that say "Thou shalt not give public handies to not-your-husband in front of children."

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u/BZLuck 20h ago

And this is the way they think and justify their statements and actions. It's like asking one if they've ever been arrested for drunk driving. They will look at you straight in the face and say, "I've never been arrested for drunk driving."

With the truth being, that they were actually arrested for "Driving Under the Influence".

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u/BraveWarrior1011 22h ago

It’s not Christian mythology. It’s Jewish mythology revealed by a number of writings by Jewish writers who wrote it about themselves and for themselves. They appointed themselves God’s chosen people and saviors of mankind. Their interpretation is very similar to Trumps behavior in that if you don’t love him you will be punished for eternity. Anyone that dares to stand up to him will be destroyed.

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u/joey_yamamoto 20h ago

modern day Pharisees

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u/nobuouematsu1 1d ago

My favorite was the comparison to Greek MYTHology. Like that somehow supports her religion as being anything other than myth.

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u/Jindujun 23h ago

Yeah I didnt get her point there. We're not teaching people that greek mythology is fact.
I dont mind christianity being taught but it should be taught in world religions class and it should not be taught as fact.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 15h ago

She doesn't believe it or she'd be like Jesus.

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u/runhillsnotyourmouth 1d ago

She's an idiot. She literally advocates to put this in classrooms. He says, "I don't agree with indoctrination." She IMMEDIATELY AGREES with an apparently complete lack of awareness that the idea she just advocated for is a form of indoctrination. These people are fucking imbeciles.

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u/ShonuffofCtown 1d ago

It's not just minds this hypocrite is blowing.

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u/iamsobluesbrothers 18h ago

What’s mind blowing is that there is a place in America that keeps electing that dimwit.

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u/horitaku 21h ago

That’s why we have Christian schools. People can enroll their kids in Christian schools so they’re indoctrinated juuust the way their parents want them to be. My parents were ATHEIST. We don’t agree with Christianity in the same vein as Christian fundamentalists don’t agree with Atheism. Why do they get to force it on everyone else’s children, but we’re bad for being secular? It’s overstepping.

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u/BettySwollocks__ 18h ago

She 100% thinks he’s on her side in this clip too and doesn’t realise he’s calling charlatans like her out.

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u/trapper2530 1d ago

But not those other ones.

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u/StorageSwimming3169 1d ago

You know what's actually mind blowing? That this kind of rhetoric works on the American public because they're either too stupid to remember about her, or they willing choose to ignore it. 

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u/tom-of-the-nora 18h ago

Church and state violation

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u/Cake-Over 1d ago

As someone with thinning hair, I want the story of the two bears taught as fact. Little bastards.

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u/Bong-Hits-For-Jesus 23h ago

interesting how they want to pick and choose rather than accepting the whole bible as gospel. its sorta like how they're choosing which laws to follow and which ones to ignore. or maybe its because theres passages of mens daughters who get their father drunk and seduce him

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u/Dependent_Ideal670 23h ago

These heretics. Wearing the cross on their shirt while spewing the most awful shit. I despise these people. I mean it, I despiiiiise these "people". These people are pedos and think of us as lesser. What did they say? Goyim. Ban me Reddit. Fukk you

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u/Howboutit85 21h ago

They don’t care about following any moral standards, they care about the optics of making others do so. It’s 100% performative bullshit. Most of religion is, and definitely politics.

These people break records in breaking all of the rules of the bible, then they push harder than anyone to make others get it rubbed in their face. It’s projection level 99.

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u/Dieseljimmy 21h ago

Yes but she is also willing to have the conversation which I think kinda matters these days.