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From: Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Texas given up on the switch scam?
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:47:52 +0100
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 16:00:26 -0700, Mark Isaak
<specimenNOSPAM@curioustaxon.omy.net> wrote:

>On 5/28/25 1:44 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 May 2025 08:46:37 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-bill-ten-commandments-public-schools-rcna206851
>>>
>>> Texas had bent over for the obfuscation and denial creationist switch
>>> scam back in 2010, but had to have the bait and switch run on them again
>>> in 2013 when they tried to use the switch scam to teach ID in their
>>> public schools.
>>>
>>> They are now trying a more direct approach that seems to be as
>>> unconstitutional as Oklahoma's use of the Bible in public schools as a
>>> text book, and last month Arkansas' Trumpy Governor (she claims that
>>> Trump was chosen by Jesus) signed similar 10 commandment legislation
>>> when I was out on the road.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> America Magazine, published by the Jesuits, had an article yesterday
>> analysing how it is wrong for the Christian Right to be campaigning
>> for posting the Ten Commandments in schools.
>> 
>> I give a link to the full article below but here is the TLDR version
>> from their newsletter yesterday:
>> 
>> <quote>
>> Father Clifford, a Jesuit priest who taught for 55 years at Boston
>> College and is a professor emeritus of Old Testament there, notes a
>> consensus among biblical scholars from the Jewish, Catholic and
>> Protestant traditions that while the Ten Commandments lay the
>> foundation for Jews' and Christians' relationship with God, they are
>> not meant to be a universal covenant that applies to adherents of
>> other religions-or of no religion. Posting the Ten Commandments in the
>> classroom, then, is not just a violation of the First Amendment, but
>> also a contradiction of the Bible itself.
>
>"This prohibition of graven images is so important that we require you 
>to make a graven image out of it."

Where is that quotation from?

Also, why do you think it  useful to make a comment based on a literal
readings of the Bible in response to an article written by a Catholic
priest when the Catholic Church does not take the Bible literally?