Arkansas installs 10 Commandments at the State Capitol

[jefferz]

From the news on July 27th

A six-foot-tall granite monument of the Commandments was installed on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol on Tuesday, flanked by the state senator who raised the money to pay for it and sponsored the legislation that required it.

"We have a beautiful Capitol grounds but we did not have a monument that actually honored the historical moral foundation of law," Republican Sen. Jason Rapert told reporters. "And today we have now, through the support of people all over the country, mostly from Arkansas, been able to erect this monument at zero taxpayer expense."

And of course the ACLU was going to sue.


Well, it appears they won't have to anymore. A crazy guy plowed into the monument with his car and destroyed it.

A man yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma's monument at its state Capitol, authorities said.

The privately funded Arkansas monument had been in place outside the state Capitol in Little Rock for less than 24 hours before it was knocked from its plinth and smashed to pieces.

Michael Tate Reed, 32, of Van Buren, Ark., was booked in the Pulaski County jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. on preliminary charges of defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass and first-degree criminal mischief. An arrest report lists his occupation as "unemployed/disabled."

sources:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-at-arkansas-state-capitol-aclu-plans-lawsuit

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...94b72utm_medium=trueAnthemutm_source=facebook

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

 

[Madmick]

Yeah, read about this last night. At first I was rolling my eyes, thinking, "Dumbasses like you are what gives the rest of us skeptics a bad name."

But...nope. He's just nuts. He appears to refer to himself sincerely as a devout Pentacostal or something.

 

[jamel]

Fuck a church tax.

 

[Pwent]

militant atheists are so much more aggressive than the religious people they complain about

 

[jefferz]

militant atheists are so much more aggressive than the religious people they complain about

But he's not an atheist

 

[Pwent]

But he's not an atheist

 

[jefferz]

He is crazy though

 

[Undying Poster]

militant atheists are so much more aggressive than the religious people they complain about

 

[Madmick]

militant atheists are so much more aggressive than the religious people they complain about

LOL, look who made up his mind and created his own false reality in his head because he couldn't be bothered to take the time to read...again.

#imnotsurprisedmotherfucker

 

[Pwent]

LOL, look who made up his mind and created his own false reality in his head because he couldn't be bothered to take the time to read...again.

#imnotsurprisedmotherfucker

you seem upset friend

even if this guys not an atheist, it doesnt change that anytime theres a religious thread theres many people bashing religious people, but ive never seen the reverse of religious people calling atheists dumb, the root of all problems etc.

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

I am not upset against this from a moral perspective. However, from a purely secular perspective I think it conflicts with the separation of church and state.

Weren't the founders by and large deists/agnostics who thought Christianity and religion was absurd? Not saying I agree with them but they seemed to found the country on the whole separation of church and state.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Crazy folk sure do love smashing into shit with cars.
At least it wasn't people this time.

 

[Fawlty]

At least it wasn't white people this time.

Jesus Christ, Pete.

Although I will say, a job done is a job done. It's like when you're trying to lower a really heavy object very carefully, and something snaps and it falls to the ground. And then when you go to assess the damage, it turns out everything is fine. Or maybe it's the inverse of that.

 

[AviatorShades]

What's the monument he destroyed 3 years prior? Same thing just in OK?

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

You know who'd be OK with this?

Moses, that's who. He smashed the commandments too.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Not all heroes wear capes.

 

[Falsedawn]

The Church of Satan is disappointed in this guy. This was a prime location for Baphomet's unholy visage. Oh well, hail anyway and all that.

 

[ripskater]

We'd be better off as a society if we learned the 10 Commandments and tried to follow them.

 

[SammyPops]

Fiscal responsibility right there.