{"id":22731,"date":"2017-06-29T01:47:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22731"},"modified":"2017-06-29T01:47:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:47:25","slug":"smashing-of-commandments-an-attention-getter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22731","title":{"rendered":"Smashing of Commandments &#8230; an attention-getter"},"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>I will stipulate right up front that I don&#8217;t get too worked up over displays such as, oh, Ten Commandments tablets being put on public property.<\/p>\n<p>I find the Ten Commandments to be an ecumenical statement for how human beings should live. I don&#8217;t see these displays as &#8220;establishing a government religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But when someone destroys such a display, as was the case in Little Rock, Ark., then you get my attention.<\/p>\n<p>They put a Ten Commandments tablet at the Arkansas State Capitol. A day later, some guy decided to ram his motor vehicle into the stone display. He destroyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Michael Tate Reed and charged him with criminal mischief and criminal trespass.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Reed really and truly dislikes any form of religious statement on government property. He reportedly rammed his car in 2014 into a Ten Commandments display at the Oklahoma capitol.<\/p>\n<p>My gripe with this guy is that he resorts to vandalism to make a point. He destroys public property. His actions call attention to him as much &#8212; if not more &#8212; to whatever political statement he intends to make.<\/p>\n<p>By my definition of the term, this guy is an exhibitionist &#8230; allegedly.<\/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>I will stipulate right up front that I don&#8217;t get too worked up over displays such as, oh, Ten Commandments tablets being put on public property. I find the Ten Commandments to be an ecumenical statement for how human beings should live. I don&#8217;t see these displays as &#8220;establishing a government religion.&#8221; But when someone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smashing of Commandments &#8230; an attention-getter<\/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":[15],"tags":[5428],"class_list":["post-22731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-ten-commandments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731","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=22731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22732,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions\/22732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}