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The Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building has been finally removed<\/a>. Thank God.<\/p>\n

A chorus of demonstrators joined an irate man in screaming “Put it back!” Wednesday morning after a monument of the Ten Commandments was wheeled away from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.
\n“Get your hands off our God, God haters!” yelled the wildly gesturing, red-faced man who initiated the chanting.
\nWorkers used a dolly to move the 5,280-pound granite marker from the rotunda to another, undisclosed place in the courthouse building.<\/p>\n

Get your hands off our God<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Obviously someone needs to do a little reading of, um, well, the Ten Commandments<\/i>. Checking out Exodus 20<\/a>, <\/p>\n

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that sort of applies to Graven Images of <\/i>the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n

I mean, I’m hardly an iconoclast. I find religious imagery aesthetically pleasing and spiritually moving. But when Christian folks start identifying objects as “our God,” as in something the authorities need to keep their hands off of, then there’s something screwy going on with someone’s <\/i>theology.<\/p>\n

Alabama Chief Justice Moore, who long ago <\/a>crossed the line into demogoguery, has done neither his state nor his religion, let alone his God, any good here. If he so strongly feels that posting the Ten Commandments is so important, I strongly suggest he make use of his lawn<\/a>. As a private citizen, he is more than welcome to do so (and I’d love to see a suit with the local HOA over it). But as a public official, not only is his primary stand dead wrong, but his defiance of a higher court demonstrates his own unfitness to serve.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Another thought for the protesters, courtesy of Joy Davidman. Though she refers to the Commie Threat, it’s applicable as well to the (if you believe that sort of thing) Secular Humanist Threat, and prayers for victory over it:<\/p>\n

That is man’s Christianity, a means to earthly triumph. And in our present crisis we are appealing to it to defeat the Russians for us. We hear of the life-and-death struggle between Christianity and Communism, the necessity of “keeping God alive as a social force” — as if our Lord could not survive a Soviet victory! It is a poor sort of faith that imagines Christ defeated by anything men can do.
\n      — Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
\n      Smoke on the Mountain<\/i> (1955)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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