A Modest Proposal.

If you find yourself living in a place so backwards that the force of law requires you to place "The Ten Commandments" on the wall of your school room, I propose that you don't stop there. So long as you are forced to plaster the walls with the religious hokum of civilizations that died out in the bronze age collapse, I propose you also put up posters containing some of their other witticisms and observations.

If you happen to teach biology, here's a good place to start:

Ezekiel 23:20

"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."

If you are hoping to use that society as a moral authority, here's is a real gem that deserves to be posted along side the ten "commandments"

Exodus 21:7

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed"

So long as we are using the bible to teach ethical behavior, it might be useful to remind students that if they think the gods are telling them to burn their children alive (or harm them in some other way), they should seek help from a mental health professional:

Genesis 22:
"Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you."

If you've got a text from bronze-age goat-herders up on your wall, you should also put up some of their other instructions for appeasing the gods.... such as putting to death women who have been raped:

Deuteronomy 22:23
"If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you."

While you're at it, if you teach in a school in Louisana, mention to your students that the Bible is very specific that the entire Louisiana shrimping industry is an abomination in the eyes of the the Christian god.

Levitcus 11:10
"And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you."

If you are forced to put up posters appeal to to tender sensibilities of bronze age goat herders, I urge you to put up posters along side it that outline some of their other "quaint customs".