The Magic Ten Orders yet again.

The ten orders suck. They’re not just theocratic, they’re bad. Don’t steal; don’t kill; don’t lie. Well no shit; can you not come up with a little more than that? Be compassionate? Don’t hurt others? Be generous? Try to make your part of the world a little better? Can’t you come up with some affirmative suggestions instead of just the most basic don’ts plus a ton of godbothering nonsense?

No, you can’t, so get that crap out of the schools.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, who was in the courtroom for the debate, said, “I like our chances.” Asked what he would say to parents who don’t want their children taught the Ten Commandments, he said he would “advise parents like that they find some moral code.”

“You either read the Ten Commandments or your child is going to learn the criminal code,” he said.

Absolutely wrong. The ten are not even close to being a moral code. They are as minimal as they could possibly be on the moral front, and the rest is just monotheistic bullying. There’s not a word about generosity or compassion or helping others. Landry is the one who needs to learn something about morality.

Before Tuesday’s hearing, Texas state Rep. Candy Noble, a Republican and one of the authors of her state’s Ten Commandments law, urged the 5th Circuit judges to back it.

“Returning the Ten Commandments to our Texas classrooms gives our school children an understanding that the Ten Commandments were foundational to America’s educational and judicial systems,” Noble said in a statement.

Nonsense. They’re too minimal and empty to be foundational to anything, as well as being too theocratic to be tolerable to 99 percent of people.