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 soon to be followed by other, likely neighboring, states, believe, because the founders were predominately Christian, they fully intended everything in government to be guided by Christian doctrine.
What they 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.
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