Louisiana's New Law, And Ideals To Live By... 

When the GOP takes seriously the injunction against bearing false witness against their opponents, only then will I take their intent seriously.

Religious conservatives: "Keep the government out of our lives!" Also religious conservatives: "Have the government force the 10 Commandments into every classroom!"

The GOP might not want the Ten Commandments taught if they really think about them, because their revered leader has broken most of them and many repeatedly.

Again, atheist here. Im glad I found your channel. Its reassuring to know there are actual Christians out there who appreciate coexistence and there is so much ground I happily share with you Ed. Please keep up good work. Our country needs you.

As an atheist, I literally love this guy.

Out of 50 states, Louisiana is 47th in reading skills. Maybe they need to concentrate on teaching the basics. If kids can't read, how are they supposed to read them and learn about them????!

One of the most memorable and impactful moments of my life happened when I was quite young, about 22. I was hired to help a neighbor in another building move, & during that hour he told me about a big wad of money he lost! His wife and daughter were mad as hell at him! During the day I found the money and I gave it back, over 3 Grand in 1978! That was big money in those days! The shock on the man's face was priceless and the joy coming from the family has warmed my heart ever since! He gave me a few bucks for thanking him plus the money I made was a pretty profitable day! I didn't have to steal to make it better! My friend who was helping me was mad at hell, he wanted to steal it! No matter how bad my life has gotten since, that memory always brings a pleasant smile! I wonder if that family ever thinks of me! Peace love and hippie stuff to all!!

Preserve us from people who think their religion applies to everyone. Let ethics be our guide.

It breaks my heart that many parents abdicate their responsibility to teach their children moral principles but it is still the parents’ choice. Ironically, I have heard parents complain that classroom teachers DON’T teach their children how to behave,but posting the Ten Commandments will not take the place of responsible parenting.

If the Ten Commandments were in the home There would be no demand for them in the classroom! Interresting, that those who want to force the Ten Commandments on everone else never demand the same for the Beatitudes or the Olivet Discourse!

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says he can't wait to be sued over enacting this law. Which will inevitably cost the taxpayers of his state. What if instead of spending money on a lawsuit, they used those funds to take care of widows and orphans, feed the poor, house the homeless, welcome the immigrant. Wouldn't that be a better way to show the children in that state how to follow Christian morality?

People do not realize the impacts laws like this have on them. They also don't realize 1. Laws like this has already been ruled unconstitutional 2. Tax payers will now have to foot the bill spending millions to defend this law, only for it to be struck down by the courts 3. Louisiana ranks 47th in education, and this is money that could have been better spent helping improve the education system Finally, the same law makers that passed this law, also rejected federal funding to feed hungry kids in the summertime. This type of hypocrisy is causing people to flee religion. People see the hypocrisy. The only reason this law was passed is because it is an election year, and not for moral reasons.

RU-vid asked me what I thought of this video. I clicked excellent

I really enjoy your daily presentations; may God bless you and always be your guide.

Here's an idea. Bring together all the major religions to compare their teaching of morality. Then let them rewrite 10 guides for life. Not exclusively Christian, but incorporate jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, druid, etc. you get the idea. Be an interesting exercise to find, finally, how much our species have in common.

I just love how there are parents who object to science, tolerance, etc., being taught in school but have no problem other people teaching their children "morality" in the form of the 10 commandments. To go all grandpa, here, "back in my day" that's what Sunday School and church were for (as Rev Ed points out). School is supposed to prepare you for life, home and church (if applicable) are supposed to prepare you for living.

It would be great if teaching the ideas of respecting others and building each other up, were acceptable in schools. I brought that up once in one of my kids' schools, and was basically told that cooperation was not an acceptable objective. One doesn't need the Ten Commandments to teach civility.

Thank you, Rev. Ed..I love your perspective. You nailed it !! ( again) God Bless You 🙏✝️

Those who want to post the Ten Commandments aren't worried so much about their own children as the children of others. "I raise my kids right, but what about Those People?" Together with, "and their kids might corrupt my kids" (by teaching them not to hate Those People, of course, is that part that goes unsaid.) Lord, have mercy upon us, and write Thy Law upon our hearts, we beseech Thee.

The breadth of people who have signed on for this attempt at replacing our democratic governance with an authoritarian theocracy has shaken my faith in this country.

This law also teaches the children that you can push your religion on others for "their own good". A bit louder, I think, than the passive message written on the wall.

Isn't one of the commandments ' Thou shalt not claim a fraudulent election when thou knowest there was no fraud?'

I never once thought about committing Adultery as a child 😂 I didn't even know what " 😊 adultery" was. I probably would have thought it meant " don't ever grow up"😂

G'morning my friend!!! Maybe LA should teach the kids to choose which of the Ten Commandments trump has broken. Makes sense to me!!! 😅 As to your thoughts, amen...nmultis!!! ❤

I agree that principles to live by must be discussed in order to be understood and followed, but the 10 commandments are old school. When the Master was asked what the greatest commandment was, he didn't pick any of those. He instead quoted the one about loving your God with all your might and loving your neighbor as yourself. The reason being, if you're loving another, you naturally won't be doing any of those 10, and in addition, you will also be looking for ways to do good to others, which are not covered by the 10.

It would have been cool if they required the posting to be cross cultural and show the versions from other religions such as the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path and Three Acts of Goodness.

UNCONSTITUTIONAL !!!

a good talk as always. Thanks, Rev Ed and hi to everyone

Loving your metaphors today.

We should be "a sweet aroma" to others especially non believers. Forcing others doesn't pass as the aroma of chocolate chip 🍪 cookies baking in the oven. 🙏

I don't need The State shoving someone else's religious down my throat. That is a step away from a theocratic dictatorship. No thank you. There are too many adults as it is, that think it's perfectly okay to harass other people because they're living differently than that person thinks they should. How about live your life to the best of your ability, help others when needed but basically mind your own business. No one has the right to dictate to someone else how they should live.

I am Sikh and I really enjoy your channel you make very good points about coexistence an religion. We have a "passage" from our Guru that goes - Actions repeated, over and over again, are engraved on the soul. - There is much more to it and I break tradition by sharing only this part but I think it goes along with what you are saying. Thank you for your prayer.

I am 67. I learned about The Ten Commandments in my church and at home. The closest that religion ever entered the classroom was on Wednesdays, when some students, who wished to, were excused early to go to their church, or synagogue. It makes me wonder if present day parents are spending time with their children teaching them by words & by example about The Ten Commandments, or they are too busy on their computers, their phones, shopping, etc. Are the children not learning about The Ten Commandments at their church? Are these politicians enacting these laws because it's the easiest way to appear they care and are doing their jobs. Their job is supposed to be, per the Constitution, "SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE" 🙏💙

You are a breath of fresh air, Rev Ed.

I see the many children being unduly punished by their teachers sitting in front of the James' version and having to copy them 100 X, each, whether they are religious or not.

The main principle I learned at home was from my grandmother, “Mind your on business.”

The funniest thing to do people who think this is a good idea is to ask them which 10 (there's 3 sets I'm aware of).

The wisest of words ever written compare not to the kindest of deeds ever done!

Amen Rev Trevors. I couldn't have said it better.

Rev Ed you hit the nail on the head with the idea of “just don’t look at it”, but book banning is ok. Seems some folks are determined to send us back in time. I definitely not speaking against the 10 Commandments. I live in a country that affords me religious freedom. It doesn’t afford me the right to infringe or interfere with anyone else’s practices. The theatrics are not only dangerous but oh so exhausting .

Do children not learn by following the lead of their parents? The challenge to the children is reading one thing on the classroom walls and seeing their parents/elders doing the opposite.

Clear simple explanations, as usual. Thank you for sharing the light in you. We really need it.

Separation of church and state must be adhered to for the protection of both.

A BOOT FULL OF BLASPHEMOUS LEADERS!!! Getting worst every day…pray for us, not all of us here are so lost!! 🤬

The "Conversations with God" books, the author stated God explained to him that they are not the "ten commandments" but are "ten commitments". Because, as it was explained, once you know that you no longer want to murder, steal, etc., you will know you are on the right path. This made perfect sense to me and for me actually felt more like the God I know.

Incredible video message Reverend 🎉🎉🎉 💙 spot on

I agree with every word you said. God bless you.

Amen.

Good words, as always Reverend. Personally, my favourite part of that interview was when the anchor asked "what does the teacher say when a pupil asks what adultery is?" and she had no answer. These are the people who don't want Sex Ed in schools. SMH.

EXCELLENT! You have spoken the truth we all need to hear, and made it so clear. Thank you!❤

Amen 🙏

So well said!

Thank you Reverend!❤😊

I sure do wish you would come and speak to the next state that tries to put this law into affect!

Thank you for your wisdom. Thank you for your guidance and insight. You are a light and blessing to me and the world, I appreciate you sooooo much!

Thank you for posting your video. Really loved all that you said ❤️😊

Thank you Reverend.

I agree with everything you say in this video.

It’s our responsibility too teach our children good principles, not the state’s responsibility.

There's a pic of a tweet by a church going around that says ... "If your version of Christianity wants to put the 10 commandments in schools but take free lunches out of them, you are worshipping something other than Jesus".

Rev, it's still inflicting the Bible in class without historical perspective being discussed as events, not injecting someone's values upon others. Church can do that, not public education.. We gotta talk.

I prefer the code of Hammurabi. Rev Ed. you are a gem.

Compassion and empathy should also be taught at home. It’s obvious republicans in office have either not been taught or have chosen power over principles. Complete lack of awareness or deliberate cruelty.

Louisianains are very happy. We have many other issues to deal with but this one is a done deal Thanks for sharing Rev Ed Rev Ed, please pray that we in Louisiana combat this heat

I am southern Baptist and I enjoy your videos

I’d very much like to visit your church. I’m located in Alberta. Where are you located? I appreciate very much your viewpoints and respect for people of different faiths.

Rev. Ed, Rabbi Sacks is a favourite! His teachings are often on Facebook.

Those pushing these initiatives are not concerned about teaching their own children, but self-righteously forcing their concepts upon those of the "great unwashed" without actually having to take the message to "those people" themselves and risk their preconceptions and/or actually getting their own hands dirty. Yet at the same time they don't want the government to carry out the Beatitudes and actually serve them. I know the way I think would be more convincing.

The amount of money spent to defend this law from the trial court up through the appeals process will be staggering. An appeal to SCOTUS is generally an expense in the millions of dollars. And that is on top of the costs of the lower court trials. How can the state of Louisiana able to afford these lawyers and costs when they do not spend that much on teaching the three R's of education? This is not only foolish waste of time but also an expense they cannot and should not be spending. Wasted funding is all this leads to.

thank you, reverend Ed! it is so refreshing to hear faith and rationality coexisting (I'm from israel where we don't have much of this).

Thank you!

I also love passover, having been blessed with invitation to seder.

Amen

Yay! Saturday!

Amen 👍👍👍👍👍

My grandparents were from Nova Scotia and we have a great grandmother who is Mi' Kmaq! I live in Waltham MA and many of us here have Mi Kmaq in our blood. Tons of folks from Nova Scotia migrated to Waltham, MA back in the 1920s. I live in the very neighborhood that was once known as Little Canada.

We have to live the commandments if we want people to learn

She called Johnson…MOSES!!!

I gotta give you an amen to that.

Rev, we have to talk. Vids coming up,. Rev, welcome to 1984! Big Brother is here!

Oh, and don't forget the Jesus addition that just thinking about it counts as doing it.

I’m a teacher in the states, and what I love about this is that it shows a complete lack of understanding of kids and group dynamics. Look away? That’s not what students of a certain temperament do. I’m talking bright, idealistic, and anti authoritarian or even oppositional. Those students will challenge to presence of those posters as disruptively as possible every chance they get. They will recruit others to their cause. There will probably be vandalized and destroyed posters all over the state and there will be civil disobedience. Meanwhile the literacy rates in LA will sink even lower because the teachers just can’t catch a break.

As an autistic person, if the Ten Commandments had been posted in my classroom, I would have expected the adults to live by those rules and I would have lost faith in adults a lot sooner than I actually did. It was bad enough learning as a teenager that my youth leaders at church were not really living by the stuff they talked about. This whole thing should scare adults because kids are smart and they pick up on hypocrisy incredibly fast. It’s harder to indoctrinate kids when they already see you’re full of BS.

The state representative proved to be childish to the interviewer and verily beared some false witnesses, just like the state she was representing.

What are these people going to do when their particular "flavour" of Christianity is treated as incorrect and invalid...by the State?

As a Christian, I oppose the placement of the Yen Commandments being posted in public classrooms. It's not the responsibility of the government to teach children religion. That's the responsibility of the parents:. That's what my parents' did. We had devotionals and prayer at home. I agree with everything that you said. God bless you.

I never had any questions. I've never heard anything I could relate to. I put this together yesterday. A little backstory. Bart Ehrman, a former fundamentalist, now atheist, bible scholar, became my favorite author. I listen to Jewish videos on the errors of Christianity. Videos that are on par with Dr. Ehrman's respect for the scriptures. This is what I posted on one of the Jewish websites (with an added edit for you). The Snake and the Worm: People prefer fantasy. The crucifixion story is as historical as Noah's ark or the waters parting for Moses to cross the sea. With that said, it doesn't matter if David is a historical figure. There is an individual behind the story, just as there is an individual behind the story of the crucifixion. I worked my way backwards through the Bible. I started with David as the Morning Star (Rv 22:16). His people set out from Babylon seeking a promised land, a heavenly home, the Garden of Eden, the kingdom prepared for you at the foundation of the world. David judged the gods and became the snake, the Ancient Serpent of Old, given the sense of a beast. As Arjuna inquired, what are the consequences of going to war? Arjuna became Job wondering why he suffers for no apparent reason. (Edit - While David has the sense of a beast, the Son of David is the word of the will, the lamp of the light, and the image of the substance of his Father. He is also the root and only begotten offspring of his Father, the Cornerstone of his work.) The Ancient Serpent of Old has his senses restored, his kingdom returned, and is Transfigured and revealed as the Ancient One of Days seated upon a thone on the Mount of Assembly, in the realm of Adam, the Christ, where it is forever peaceful, beyond the heavens. Further, Adam was not deceived (1Ti 2:14 NAB) Adam, the Christ, is a third-party mediator to this world and these heavens. The Son of David does what he sees the Father has done. I came into this world for judgment (Joh 9:39 NABO). I am a worm, hardly human, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. (Psa 22:7 NABO) Christ is Tranfigured and revealed to be Adam. God rises in the divine council, gives judgment in the midst of the gods. The gods neither know nor understand, wandering about in darkness, and (the foundations of all the worlds) shake. (Psa 82:1-5 NABO) David rides the donkey and the Bride of David rides the foal of the donkey. Adam rides a horse - of many colors, or aspects, or perspectives. White - The wine press I have trodden alone (Isa 63:3 NABO) Red - Do not think that I have come to bring peace (Mat 10:34 NABO) Black - Scales of judgment Pale Green - Christ rising up from the Abyss - all of Hades is at his heel - to ‘strike at’ or ‘grasp’ the heel or the head means to protect, guard, or watch over. the kingdom of God will be… given to a people that will produce its fruit. (Mat 21:43 NAB) in hope that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption (Rom 8:20-21 NABO)

The Bible needs to be understood as a conversation with each other and God.

Parents must teach by example. Not always easy to do.

I'm Bothered w/ State Promoting Church!

You are 100% right. It is Total hypocrisy.

You make too much sense for a large segment of our population to grasp the idea that being a good role model and living an honest, decent life is the best poster to guide us.

Morals and virtue should be taught in the home. Yes schools can help in some ways. Problem today is that many Christians fail to teach things in the home and expect the schools to do it for them.

Pastor Ed, please also elaborate on the Hebrews verses where the new convenant with God's people will be written in their hearts and minds. ....Although those verses kind of differ from your explanation here -- mentioning something about not teaching each other about the Lord for all shall know Him....?

Separation of Church and State ! Don't they know that this country is full of people from many different religions ?

Do you have a Mi'kmaq translation of the commandments?

This reminds me of the pledge of allegiance. I still remember it to this day. And, it has no meaning. It is just something they made us do.

Thanks Reverend Ed I really appreciate how you've been here in the gutter with the outcast I'm the 63-year-old one that was born gay still gay and I'm a Christian too, So. But I want you to think about this. The evangelicals what morphed into them, I've seen it all along even from the '80s. but I think it's cuz I was gay, You know. The curse became the blessing.. But they are fighting a spiritual battle in their minds their paradigm. but a lot of people have transverse that paradigm of fear And indoctrination and deconstructed and seen a whole new way that Jesus was elevated and and this evolves people to a better place out of the old time kind of hell-firing damnation gospel. But the question is I think they're spiraling and they've thrown everything against the wall even Trump down to project 2025 I mean they are really really trying to install a dictator and they're just going for it and I think, I don't know if they're going to stop. they're using the law to be their bully pulpit. We really are in a prayerful situation and I sure hope there's a god up there. I hope all of our politicians like John McCain and Joe and Joe Lewis, I just hope they're all up their praying, cuz I'm getting scared. From the gay strong Christian here. but no. I have a lot of faith. But I've also been at this battle for ever since I can remember of waking up and that was around 6 years old. and I'm 63 now and I'm still in awe of the journey..I'm in awe of how God can use what they tried to use and corrupt. I am convinced, I've seen it. they're changing their manipulating the Bible. Like with Duke University in 1946 with the word homosexual these are no accidents. This is not a bug it's a feature and it's a feature of authoritarianism and fascism and call it what you want to. they're just twisting the words and calling us that. I'm getting scared so everybody needs to pray and vote Amen. 🙏😇🏳️‍🌈

It always makes me both proud (and sad) when I see an atheist fighting harder to protect your freedom of religion, than others (who should be fighting for it) will fight.

The Establishment problem has one quirk - the compulsory text is the Protestant version of the Decalogue… in a mostly Catholic state. We seem to have forgotten about sectarian… weddings in Europe.