Louisiana's state book to be the bible?

by **Risottia** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:13 pm

The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/louisiana_bible_official_state.html

Legislation that would make the Holy Bible the official state book of Louisiana

First I was "OFFICIAL STATE BOOK WHAAAAT".
Then I saw "Louisiana". Oh well. A new fundie state located around the same latitudes of other fundie states like Saudi Arabia.

by **Bezombia** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:14 pm

Senyosu wrote:Louisiana, you lost my reapect. Your food is great, but this was a dumb move. May all in Louisiana feel terrible.

TIL government = people

by **Ifreann** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:17 pm

Bezombia wrote:
Senyosu wrote:Louisiana, you lost my reapect. Your food is great, but this was a dumb move. May all in Louisiana feel terrible.

TIL government = people

Do they not have elections in Lousiana?

by **Bezombia** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:19 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Bezombia wrote:
TIL government = people

Do they not have elections in Lousiana?

TIL elections means government = people

by **Senyosu** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:19 pm

Bezombia wrote:
Senyosu wrote:Louisiana, you lost my reapect. Your food is great, but this was a dumb move. May all in Louisiana feel terrible.

TIL government = people

Does it though?

Ifreann wrote:
Bezombia wrote:
TIL government = people

Do they not have elections in Lousiana?

Essentially Christian Iran minus the lynching of homosexuals and women... Though I would not be surprised if it were the case there.

by **Ifreann** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:23 pm

Bezombia wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Do they not have elections in Lousiana?

TIL elections means government = people

Well where else will the government come from? Space?

by **Senyosu** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:24 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Bezombia wrote:
TIL elections means government = people

Well where else will the government come from? Space?

From God obviously.

by **Risottia** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:27 pm

Senyosu wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Well where else will the government come from? Space?

From ~~God~~ Azathoth obviously.

At least the government of Louisiana, that is.

by **Lunatic Goofballs** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:35 pm

Senyosu wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Well where else will the government come from? Space?

From God obviously.

I'd keep that to yourself if you actually want people to worship God.

by **The Greater Ohio Valley** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:37 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Bezombia wrote:
TIL elections means government = people

Well where else will the government come from? Space?

Zuul

by **Vulpae** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:15 pm

for the politician who politiked so well to get this to happen, That takes some mutherfuggin skill to pull that off right there.
:palm:

for the guys who took time out of their busy day to vote Yay or Nay on this trivial matter, over all the useful things they could be doing.
:palm:

for the media guys going to blow it out of proportion, especally next year
:palm:

for the fundies who will claim that this tiny peice of trivia is somehow a decisive victory for god in america.
:palm:

for the anti-theists, who will go all doom-sayer because they can't accept religion is relevent and always will be.

:palm:

for the guys who are going to make a pointless issue out of this around christmas to tweak christians in a bible belt state, which will cause the state to swing farther into the neo-conservitive camp.

by **The Time Alliance** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:22 pm

Look Keep Government out of Religion and Keep Religion out of Government.

I hate religious types wanting their religion influencing the government, but hating when the government interferes with their religion.

by **Herskerstad** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:22 pm

Doubt the separation of church and state will really go as far as to limit the contents in state-honored books, if such was to be the case, then virtually no state books would be likely to survive the process. As long as the 'In God we trust' are on the paper in which the lawyers are paid, they are gonna have a hard time making this stick in any court.

But seeing as the Bible already is mountains and heaps as far as sales go above all other books, the only question remains is likely to be 'why.' Will be honest enough to say that I am not too familiar with Louisiana literature, but is there no historic piece of writing they got to show for it? I'd suspect that an official state book should have at least origins in said state.

by **The 93rd Coalition** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:24 pm

Huh. We have state books now? Cool, I want ours to be 1984. No, Jennifer Government.

I guess if this happens, it'd be... fine. I mean, it isn't like they're turning their state into a theocracy. So I guess go ahead Louisiana, do your thing.

by **Constantinopolis** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:26 pm

Okay, this "official state thing" business has officially jumped the shark. Can the U.S. just pass a constitutional amendment banning states from adding any more official state things, please? If we don't nip this in the bud, in ten years we'll have official state intestinal parasites and official state mass shooting incidents.

by **Seaxeland** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:26 pm

Kudos to Louisiana for staying faithful!

by **The Time Alliance** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:27 pm

Constantinopolis wrote:Okay, this "official state thing" business has officially jumped the shark. Can the U.S. just pass a constitutional amendment banning states from adding any more official state things, please? If we don't nip this in the bud, in ten years we'll have official state intestinal parasites and official state mass shooting incidents.

But states Right's....

by **The united states of Saints** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:43 pm

I'm really surprised by this I'm a Christian and I live in Louisiana but disagree with this being an official statebook (didn't even know that was a thing). I disagree with this legislation and hope it doesn't get passed. As said before by another poster, religion and government don't go together.

by **L Ron Cupboard** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:47 pm

I see they have a state meat pie as well. We are laughing at you.

by **Eowyth** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:49 pm

The Cajuns have the right idea now

by **Stormhound** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:51 pm

Senyosu wrote:Louisiana, you lost my respect. Your food is great, but this was a dumb move. May all in Louisiana feel terrible. Violating the first amendment is a foolish move that must be punished.

How?

by **Soldati Senza Confini** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:51 pm

Nazi Flower Power wrote:
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/louisiana_bible_official_state.html

This dude is so full of shit.

Also, I gotta love the guy who called his pastor for advice and the pastor said it was a problem. When your pastor tells you to leave the Bible out of something, you should probably leave the Bible out of it.

This.

If a religious authority figure tells you "this is fucked up" and you still do it, yea, you can't blame the church for it.

by **The Time Alliance** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:51 pm

The united states of Saints wrote:I'm really surprised by this I'm a Christian and I live in Louisiana but disagree with this being an official statebook (didn't even know that was a thing). I disagree with this legislation and hope it doesn't get passed. As said before by another poster, religion and government don't go together.

Exactly.

by **Seattile** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:01 pm

I don't know what's more funny, state books or the people's reaction to it. I'm going with the latter. Just some of you are making a big deal over something small like this.

by **Bezombia** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:02 pm

Seattile wrote:I don't know what's more funny, state books or the people's reaction to it. I'm going with the latter. Just some of you are making a big deal over something small like this.

Something small like a textbook violation of the 1st Amendment.

Louisiana's state book to be the bible?

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