{"id":11187,"date":"2015-10-01T03:09:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T03:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2015-10-01T03:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T03:09:40","slug":"why-the-fuss-over-god-decal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11187","title":{"rendered":"Why the fuss over &#8216;God&#8217; decal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/decal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11188\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/decal-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"decal\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/decal-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/decal.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In God We Trust,&#8221; according to some folks, is a religious statement.<\/p>\n<p>The way I interpret the phrase is that it has become almost a stock line, a virtual clich\u00e9. It now adorns the police cruisers in at least two Texas Panhandle communities &#8212; in Childress and Hutchinson counties. The phrase has drawn criticism from anti-religious zealots.<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: Can&#8217;t you find more worthy opponents to take on?<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Morning News blogger Jim Mitchell has weighed in with his view that the phrase doesn&#8217;t belong on police cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/09\/religious-decals-dont-belong-on-police-cars.html\/\">In God We Trust<\/a>\u00a0can be found on our currency and on public building. Mitchell has no problem with that.<\/p>\n<p>My only gripe about the phrase on police cars is that the cops could have chosen another phrase to place on its cars. How about &#8220;To Protect and Serve&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>But the phrase &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; doesn&#8217;t, in my mind, say anything offensive. The term doesn&#8217;t suggest that cops are going to interrogate motorists they pull over about their religious faith, or ask them if they believe in God.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase appears to be merely a statement that the relevant police agency trusts in God &#8212; which, incidentally, can be an ecumenical deity that takes in people of various faiths.<\/p>\n<p>As for those with have no faith in God, well, the phrase means nothing to them. That&#8217;s fine, too.<\/p>\n<p>But to protest it? Get a life &#8230; <em>please.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In God We Trust,&#8221; according to some folks, is a religious statement. The way I interpret the phrase is that it has become almost a stock line, a virtual clich\u00e9. It now adorns the police cruisers in at least two Texas Panhandle communities &#8212; in Childress and Hutchinson counties. The phrase has drawn criticism from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the fuss over &#8216;God&#8217; decal?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[5519,1243,2224,5515],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-religious-news","category-state-news","tag-childress","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-hutchinson-county","tag-in-god-we-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}