The people who pushed for such a blatantly unconstitutional law should be removed from office.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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When people wanna quote the Ten Commandments, remind them of Mark 12:17: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto God what is God's." Quote is attributed to Jesus. He was saying take care of your secular business before your religious business. And for fuck's sake, if you're gonna say it out loud, at least pronounce Caesar as Jesus did, not like you're talking about fucking salad dressing.
It's "Kie-sahr," not "See-zer." Caesar would probably have you up on a cross getting nibbled on by crows while you starve to death if you called him "See-zer" to his face. If you've seen the second season of the show Fallout, they pronounce it correctly. That's because in the video game, Fallout: New Vegas (2010), about half of them did. That Caesar didn't really care, but Julius, Augustus, or fucking Caligula? Yeah, your mispronunciation would be their dinner entertainment.
Anyway, for context, the Jews were asking Jesus if it was okay to pay taxes to Caesar or if they should tithe to the church first. And Jesus basically said "go handle your business." The Caesars were not nice people (even if you could say their name right), but since when have our leaders ever been nice?
Interesting, where do you get the pronunciation from though? I always thought it was somehow related to the notion of seize the throne, thus see-zer.
Well, you see, in ancient rome they spoke Latin instead of english. The roman Caesar is the origin of both the german Kaiser and the Russian Tsar/Czar. Kai-sar was how it would be pronounced in latin
what language are you speaking when you're saying "render unto caesar" tho, latin or your vernacular?
It was his family name well before he took the throne.
The game got me curious, why half the voice actors were pronouncing it that way. Apparently the soft C didn't exist back then. And from what I was able to research (and probably posted in AskHistory or AskHistorians on Reddit), what I learned was that half the voice actors were pronouncing it correctly, while the rest were using the modern pronunciation.
i'm not going to overpronounce caesar. you ever meet someone who has taken one year of college spanish and that's it and now they roll every L in a spanish word even if it's not supposed to be rolled?
the modern pronunciation is acceptable. language moves.
Sure, no one cares if you mispronounce Caesar, but Caesar would have. Maybe not every Caesar, some of them might have laughed it off, castrated you, and made you a court jester. I don't really know, I've never met any of them.
that's the thing. after a thousand years it's no longer a mispronunciation
Gotta love the Old Testament…..
I wonder how many billions of dollars have been wasted on this complete shit over the centuries?
Worst of all, we have to pay their taxes, too. I despise having to support their absolute lunacy
Another win for normalcy!
I have a one-time deal for the Christian right. We will cover up all of these commandments.
If you can recite 5 of them, as a society we will allow you to post them.
Hell, ill allow it if we may also post the Satanic Tenants right next to it, same size, and clearly stating THE SATANIC TENANTS on top
I believe that's "Tenets" unless they're paying rent
no they had it right the first time
post the satanic residents next to the ten commodores
Church of Satan or The Satanic Temple? The latter is more politically involved, but the former straight up says "Do not harm children." I am not paraphrasing, that is one of their "Eleven rules of the earth." Why are Satanists (albeit, LaVeyan Satanists) the only religion standing up for kids?
Nah.
if we could just detach texas and arkansas and set them afloat
but el paso has a really nice drive through restaurant i like to eat at when i'm driving through. can we keep el paso?
edit: upon reflection, restaurants can be moved can we rent some big trucks to move the restaurant
I don't know what the big deal is about. It's not like they're actually teaching those kids how to read anyway.
(I'm being sarcastic. About the first sentence.)
Conservatives are full mask off on not giving a flying fuck about our Constitution.
There's 14 Commandments btw