A Fantastic Rebuttal to Dennis Pragers Tribute to the Ten Commandments

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3. That was the final insult that touched off the Nativist Riots

in Philadelphia in the 1840s. It was decreed that the ten should be posted in the local schools, all well and good and the Christian majority approved. Then the Irish insisted on the Douay version in the schools in their neighborhoods instead of the KJV, and the non Irish "natives" lost their shit. The riots lasted several days, resulted in a few deaths and a lot of injuries, and of course nothing was particularly settled. It's one reason Catholic religious grammar schools became popular, they kept the kiddies away from Protestant heresy on the classroom wall.

Today, fewer people actually know there are different versions and the waters are far more muddied with newer translations done mostly from bad older translations. If the same idiots pass the same law, we will hear sectarian grumbling, but most people haven't read the ten since they were children and can't quote them to save their lives so they won't come to blows.