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The Republican Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, recently signed a law requiring state’s classrooms to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. The Onion explores the pros and cons of requiring religious doctrine in public schools…

• PRO: A good way to cover up the bullet holes.
• CON: Use of woke “Thou/Thy” pronouns.
• PRO: Great example of counting to 10 in the real world.
• CON: Just finished building golden calf.
• PRO: Least out-of-date thing in classroom.
• CON: True believers would display the entirety of the King James Bible.
• PRO: Distracts from how weird the Pledge of Allegiance is.
• CON: Not enough funding to print it out.

“Pros And Cons of Displaying The 10 Commandments in Every Classroom,” from @TheOnion.

* H. L. Mencken

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As we ponder piety, we might recall that on this date in 1862, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a young Oxford mathematics don, took the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church College– Alice Liddell and her sisters– on a boating picnic on the River Thames in Oxford.  To amuse the children he told them the story of a little girl, bored by a riverbank, whose adventure begins when she tumbles down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world called “Wonderland.”  The story so captivated the 10-year-old Alice that she begged him to write it down. The result was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 under the pen name “Lewis Carroll,” with illustrations by John Tenniel.

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