And that list they like to cite and post everywhere — including in public schools that are Constitutionally charged to show no religious favoritism — isn’t even the Ten Commandments.
The phrase “ten commandments” occurs just three times in the Old and New Testaments, and only once with an actual list of ten things to do/not do (among the hundreds of laws in the OT, which include such sins as tattoos and eating catfish) or else.
The actual Ten Commandments are listed in Exodus 34, and talk about breaking donkey necks, boiling baby goats in their mothers’ milk, observing the Feast of Weeks, and gathering every male in the nation together in one place three times a year for a communal browbeating/peptalk.
The reason theocrats push the so-called Ten Commandments (whether the so-called Protestant version or the so-called Catholic version), and not the actual Ten Commandments as literally named in their handbook, is either that they don’t really know what their handbook says, or they do know but also know that trying to manufacture future theocrats by posting — where public school students can’t avoid seeing it — stuff about strangling donkeys, along with the implication that the creator of the universe demonizes goat au gratin moreso than murder (which is not on the list), would likely be counter-productive.
“So, Donnie Demento — will you do another debate after Hillbilly Vanilli?”