NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoLouisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandmentsboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1402arrow-down17
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minus-squareandrewth09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·edit-23 months agoThey broke the 10th commandment into two commandments. There should have been a semicolon after 10a, not a new line. (10a) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. (10b) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s."
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·3 months ago10(Revised): Don’t covet thy neighbors’ shit.
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agobut its okay to covet shit if they’re not a neighbor, right?
minus-squarebazus1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agotwist: It’s neighbors all the way down.
minus-squarestoicmaverick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoFurther revisions: Don’t like things that aren’t me.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·3 months ago nor his manservant, nor his maidservant “Slaves” in the original, but of course we can’t allow any hint of three thousand year old shit not being strictly relevant any more.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 months agoOh don’t worry, that revision is just waiting for SCOTUS to give them enough cover.
They broke the 10th commandment into two commandments. There should have been a semicolon after 10a, not a new line.
(10a) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.
(10b) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his cattle, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s."
10(Revised): Don’t covet thy neighbors’ shit.
but its okay to covet shit if they’re not a neighbor, right?
twist: It’s neighbors all the way down.
Further revisions: Don’t like things that aren’t me.
“Slaves” in the original, but of course we can’t allow any hint of three thousand year old shit not being strictly relevant any more.
Oh don’t worry, that revision is just waiting for SCOTUS to give them enough cover.