• TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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?

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        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.

    • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • cenotaph@piefed.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        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

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The people who pushed for such a blatantly unconstitutional law should be removed from office.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    LOL what a shithole, I want them to do this ridiculous cult garbage, whatever helps destroying that cancer country