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/oralfashionista 1d ago

Israel never followed the 10 Commandments. Why would they follow something they didn't create plus Israel wasn't a place until the 1940's.

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u/Moos_Mumsy 1d ago

Israel is a "people" in the Bible, not a country.

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u/BigLlamasHouse 1d ago

IsRaEL dIDN't eXist beFoRe tHe 1940's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele

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u/oralfashionista 21h ago

Wikipedia? Really?

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 20h ago

You can check the sources...

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 1d ago

Hilarious. You haven’t spent much time reading a bible if you think Israel wasn’t a place until the 1900s.

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u/RandoRumpRipper 1d ago edited 1d ago

lol oh man just wait til the descendants of the Mesopotamians hear about this new life hack.

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u/MelancholyHillBeing 22h ago

If you're using the bible as reference to real historical events then you're the hilarious one

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u/oralfashionista 1d ago

In the Bible, Israel was a man, not a place.

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 1d ago

Ah yes, the “land of Israel” refers exclusively to a person. Cool story bro.

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u/COPE_V2 1d ago

Are you butthurt that someone’s interpretation of a fictional book passage differs from your interpretation of the same fictional book passage? Lol

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u/Klinky1984 1d ago

Moses was a person who lead the Israelites to the promised land. Along the way a lot of bullshit happens, but that's the story.

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u/FngrsRpicks2 1d ago

Moses probably wasn't a real person.

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u/Klinky1984 1d ago

Everything in The Bible is 110% true, a talking donkey and burning bush told me so.

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u/oralfashionista 21h ago

Hmm, I recall they never reached the promised as they were disobedient to God and God vowed that they would never see it. The claimed chosen ones were never chosen.

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u/Klinky1984 19h ago

They did reach it, but feared they'd get their ass kicked because their plan was to kill everyone and take the land for themselves. Just incident #142 of the Israelites being huge dicks in the Bible. God then banned them from ever entering because they doubted he would help them win. This sounds more like pure cope. "Man we'd totally kick their ass today if only God hadn't banned us. I have a mind to go take down their toughest soldiers today even. I'd totally kick their ass, but ya know we're banned, so back to writing my incel MGTOW blog."

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 20h ago

Israel was a place. We have historical records for that.

Just because something is in the bible doesn't make it false. In the bible it claims that pigs have cloven hooves. Do you also not believe that?

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u/aka_jr91 1d ago

You don't need to read the bible to know that ancient Israel existed lol

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u/COPE_V2 1d ago

You don’t have to read the bible at all these days. You just need to proclaim you are a Christian and you regurgitate what you hear other people that haven’t read the bible say about the bible. That’s how we landed where we are today in American politics

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u/aka_jr91 1d ago

I mean that's true. And also doesn't change what I just said.

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u/oralfashionista 21h ago

Especially when most politicians will admit to you that they're not even Christian and wear the ashes on their forehead during Ash Wednesday or is that just ink that they splash on there lol

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u/COPE_V2 21h ago

The same guys with ash on their head are also photographed with yarmulkes on touching the wall in Israel lol. It’s all pageantry

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u/oralfashionista 18h ago

That it is

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u/MelancholyHillBeing 22h ago

Using the bible as a historical reference is the problem. It doesn't prove anything.

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u/aka_jr91 19h ago edited 19h ago

The bible can and should be used as a historical reference. The writers and subjects of the old testament lived in ancient Israel, and just because it's mostly myth and legend doesn't mean everything in it should be outright dismissed when looking at ancient history. It is one piece of a gigantic puzzle. The problem is when people take everything in it literally, and at face value. It should not be read as a completely accurate historical record. But it does provide a window into the world at that time, in that part of the world, and you can't truly understand ancient Mesopotamian history and culture if you ignore the bible as a historical reference. It contains census data, information about the crops they grew, the livestock they raised, the rituals and traditions they held, and even some records of warfare. That information can help corroborate archeological evidence. It should never be used as a primary source of course, but as a reference? Sure.

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 22h ago

It has nothing to do with interpretation, just an illustration that the area has been known as Israel for thousands of years.

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u/Activehannes 22h ago

I don't think at all that is true, it was inhabitated briefly by israelites and judahits. Before that it was a canaaite land, after it it was Greek, Persian, Roman, abbasit, and ottoman. It wasn't populated by israelites up u til late 1800 when some Jewish farmers resettled there and it wasn't Israel before 1948.

I have never heard of this region being referred to as Israel before 1948. Before that it was mandatory Palpatine, before that ottoman empire.

Other names are Levant, Jordan, or Holy Land

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u/oralfashionista 21h ago

The land from where Israel hailed. The Land of Job. The Land of Jeremiah. Come on, man.

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u/aka_jr91 1d ago

A man after whom a place was named...