I don’t know if there ever was an eleventh commandment although I have seen the video of Moses walking down the mountain from his talk with the burning bush carrying three stone tablets,

He announces “Behold, I bring you the Fifteen…” dropping one of the tablets which shatters, then, without missing beat, announces, “Behold, I bring you the Ten Commandments.”

But if there was an Eleventh it would say…

“Thous shall not get caught with your inanity showing.”

Louisiana, a great proponent of the surviving commandments, did just that.

Proclaiming the solution to their dismal performance in one of government’s most sacred duties, Public Education, lies in tacking the (remaining) Ten Commandments onto the wall of every public classroom in the state, they passed a law mandating this.

Apparently they overlook the real possibility that a significant number of students can’t even read them, let alone absorb some magical antidote to ignorance.

Read for yourself the myriad reports putting Louisiana last or near last in the nation for level of education. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana#state-rankings

I will dispense with the whole separation of Church and State argument, I have found it a waste of time. Blind faith in just that, blind. But let’s consider this.

Louisiana, and I am certain other states, believe that because the founders were predominately Christian, they fully intended everything in government to be guided by Christian doctrine.

What they conveniently forget is the founding fathers were also slave holders, opposed allowing women to vote, and held that the indigenous people who lived here long before Christians came to save them deserved to be driven from their land by force or by death.

Hardly sounds Christian.

But if having a list on the wall would be helpful, might I suggest the following. It almost sound Christian to me.

For those of you who need a refresher, here is one version of the original commandments language.  Not quite as Christian sounding as one might expect.

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. KJV

Implied in the “shall not covet thy neighbor’s manservant or maidservant” is the acceptability of slavery. Perhaps there is the true agenda, absolving the stain of slavery.