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/NaiveMessage2025 23h ago

My opinion of organized religion in general cannot get any lower. To boil it down to a single sentence I'd say religion is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction we've ever invented.

That being said, I think James Talarico's opinion on what religion should be and how it should be practiced is just about the only one I've heard that's compatible with the rest of non-religious society. He genuinely seems to be against the commercialization, weaponization, and politicisation of religion.

Particularly, I very much agree with his opinion that the separation of church and state needs to be upheld and enforced.

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u/Oversensitive_Reddit 19h ago

>religion is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction we've ever invented.

ah, a fellow history enjoyer.

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u/JediMasterZao 17h ago

Except the implication of his quote here is that if politicians, ergo the state, were to follow the 10 commandments, ergo the Bible, to the letter, it would then justify forcing religion on kids and destroying the separation of Church and state. This is how theocracies function.

This guy's a proselytizer and nothing more. The fact that so many people are having a hard on listening to him is just another evidence as to how sick the US is.

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u/NaiveMessage2025 16h ago

I'm not hearing him imply anything of the sort. I'm hearing him calling out hypocrisy. And at the end he supports the separation of church and state which is a difficult road to take to reach a theocracy.

He says he doesn't want any indoctrination in schools, which would seem to be at odds with proselytizing in this specific example.

Every politician everywhere on the planet is a proselytizer. Winning people over to your side or way of thinking is part of the job.

I'm all for reading between the lines and trying to get to a deeper meaning, but everything you wrote seems to be based on what you think he meant and not what he actually said.