re: Texas may become first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools

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or you can just have common sense

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common sense is not that common, or we wouldn’t have needed the Ten Commandments in the first place

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The founding fathers, even as religious men, made sure to point out the importance of separation of church and state. It’s unconstitutional.

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The establishment clause has to do with preventing an official religion. No founding father would have been opposed to using excerpts from the Bible as supplemental text in literature class, consider the Bible was widely used in schools already.

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evolutionary self-preservation... wanting to be treated well, and the reciprocity of that is not some mystical, supernatural thing... it's biological...

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I realize you're responding to someone else here, but I want to address this point. The "evolution" of morality is largely dependent on where a human lands on the planet and the subsequent group think of that geographical area.

Nobody living in the modern day U.S. has escaped the influence of Christian principles. That's all I was saying earlier.

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Nobody living in the modern day U.S. has escaped the influence of Christian principles. That's all I was saying earlier.

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What does that have to do with morality? Morality wasn't born in modern day U.S.

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common sense is not that common, or we wouldn’t have needed the Ten Commandments in the first place

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Do you think that, before the Ten Commandments were published, that the majority of people thought it was OK to murder other people on a whim? Or steal?

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Texas may become first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools

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Were bible readings never done or mandated in some form in any public schools across the country before the Supremes incorporated a constitutional limit on Congress to also start applying to the states (in 1947 for this specific incorporation)?

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What does that have to do with morality? Morality wasn't born in modern day U.S.

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That's not what I meant at all. I'm saying that we don't exist in little individual bubbles where we're not influenced from the outside. Anyone who grew up in this country (outside of someone completely removed from society) has been inundated with Christian teaching, whether they're aware or not. Similarly, a person growing up in Afghanistan would be highly influenced by Islam.

Someone living in an obscure place like North Sentinel Island would likely have a very different moral code.

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I wonder if the parents of those little girls say the same thing? Or if the little girls wished there were more people willing to ignore these things.

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You should probably worry about your own family instead of what's going on halfway across the Earth.

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You should probably worry about your own family instead of what's going on halfway across the Earth.

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Imagine if the Americans had the same sentiment during ww2 rather than acknowledging a problem.

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The parallel is not lost on me. It's interesting though that they're protected from outsiders for their desire to remain homogeneous and everyone seems cool with it.

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Not particularly interesting. When you give nothing and you asks for nothing, you tend to become invisible.