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Car smashes Ten Commandments monument outside Capitol building
NewsOK.com ^ | 10/24/2014 | Staff

Posted on 10/24/2014 9:10:35 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Someone drove a car up on the lawn of the state Capitol building Thursday night and smashed into a controversial Ten Commandments monument, breaking the stone slab into several pieces, state officials said.

The person who did it fled and has not been found, Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman George Brown said Friday.

This wasn’t a case of a car taking a wrong turn, but a purposeful act, said John Estus, spokesman for the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services. Whoever did it repositioned some ramp equipment that happened to be outside the building and used it to get access to the area near the monument.

It’s not clear if the monument is repairable, Estus said.

The monument was donated by a state representative amid opposition that placement of a religious artifact near the Capitol was not proper.

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To: hoagy62
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

-CS Lewis
21 posted on 10/24/2014 9:27:58 AM PDT by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: GIdget2004
...smashed into a controversial Ten Commandments monument

I guess nowadays, stating things like "thou shall not kill", "thou shall not steal", or "honor your Mother and Father" are controversial.

22 posted on 10/24/2014 9:28:45 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: GIdget2004

Is there no surveillance video near the area to help identify the automobile if nothing else?


23 posted on 10/24/2014 9:29:56 AM PDT by wtd
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To: GIdget2004

24 posted on 10/24/2014 9:32:51 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: GIdget2004
It's ok, as we all know there were originally Fifteen Commandments.
25 posted on 10/24/2014 9:34:13 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: COBOL2Java

From the surveillance video?


26 posted on 10/24/2014 9:34:28 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: GIdget2004

Great headline.

“Car smashes...”

like “Gun goes on killing spree...”

No, a nutjob uses a car to smash.


27 posted on 10/24/2014 9:36:45 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: GIdget2004

The commandments have been broken before. Look at Adam and Eve.


28 posted on 10/24/2014 9:40:31 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: OneWingedShark

“Did God get Moses for smashing the commandments?”

Got him a second set, IIRC.

For all the good it did.


29 posted on 10/24/2014 9:41:19 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Don Corleone
The commandments have been broken before. Look at Adam and Eve.

You need to re-read your Bible. The Ten Commandments didn't exist until Moses received them. And I'm pretty sure they've been broken plenty of times.

30 posted on 10/24/2014 9:42:52 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: GIdget2004

The 11th commandment is:
“Thou shalt not smash the 10 commandments with thy chariot”


31 posted on 10/24/2014 9:53:33 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: GIdget2004

Must have thought he was Moses.


32 posted on 10/24/2014 9:55:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: GIdget2004
“It is absolutely appalling that someone would vandalize anything at the Oklahoma State Capitol — the People’s Building — much less a monument of such significance.

Wait'll the Satanists get their monument installed.

33 posted on 10/24/2014 9:57:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: GIdget2004

Well, Moses did it once..................


34 posted on 10/24/2014 10:00:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: OneWingedShark

Nah, just made HIM write them the second time!.................


35 posted on 10/24/2014 10:00:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey
Amen!

It will get sorted out in the end.

I don't get it - if atheists don't believe in God, why are they so bothered by it.

If they don't get, or want, the theology can't they just treat Christianity historically? If they think Christianity is mythology. just leave Christians alone and go about their special beliefs and whatever they worship.

Nonbelievers should just GET OVER IT..............!

36 posted on 10/24/2014 10:09:27 AM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: OneWingedShark
"Did God get Moses for smashing the commandments?"

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I feel so "ignant" here.

I THINK AND IIRC: Moses brought the tablets down but he saw the heathens, who, in his absence, had built a golden calf to worship.

They had turned their backs away from God and an angry Moses smashed the tablets.

Man, I really have some reading and studying to do!

I should know this by heart for all of my reading. Guess I need a better way of learning!

37 posted on 10/24/2014 10:20:47 AM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: hummingbird
Don't feel too bad about it; I recently read Genesis to my dying Grandfather (and did some reading in Exodus for some sermons) &mdashh; so it's kind of recently in-mind.
38 posted on 10/24/2014 10:31:45 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
Thanks, OneWingedShark! You know what kind of Bible is the best?

The one well-used with personal notations on the side!

39 posted on 10/24/2014 10:53:54 AM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: GIdget2004

Who does the driver think he is...Moses?


40 posted on 10/24/2014 11:20:26 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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