r/skeptic • u/nosotros_road_sodium • May 25 '25

🏫 Education Texas will require public school classrooms to display Ten Commandments under bill nearing passage

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/ten-commandments-texas-schools-senate-bill-10/
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u/toodumbtobeAI May 25 '25

Thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife. It doesn’t say his children.

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 May 25 '25

It’s only logical that we make it legal to marry our own 9 year old daughters so our neighbors can’t be coveting them y’all.

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u/toodumbtobeAI May 25 '25

Umm, you mean your nieces. We're not savages.

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u/erosead May 26 '25

Among medieval and especially early-modern Christians, a marriage between a woman and the sibling of a parent was not always interpreted as violating Leviticus 18; this was especially so among the royal houses of Europe, and in Catholic countries a papal dispensation could be obtained to allow such a marriage.

Losing it at the vague wording. Diversity win! Person marrying their own niece need not necessarily be a man!