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Posted on 09/23/2013 11:06:06 AM PDT by george76
A granite monument of the Ten Commandments that sits across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court was toppled by vandals sometime over the weekend.
The monument sits in the front yard of 209 Second St. NE, the headquarters of Faith and Action, an evangelical Christian group led by the Rev. Rob Schenck.
The 3-foot by 3-foot granite sculpture weighs 850 pounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Curious to see if this was a targeted attack, or if it was teenagers being stupid. Either is inexcusable.
Since the monument weighs 850#, I'd likely lean towards the former. However, having done my share of incredibly stupid things as a bored teenager, I could see the latter as a possibility.
Stupidity can be rectified, usually with a required application of a generous amount of sweat and elbow grease. If it was a targeted attack, though, the fix isn't so easy.
Oops... didn’t notice that it’s a private monument and not public!
I think so. Good words.
Near Philadelphia, a church had a number of religious statues decapitated between 2 & 4 AM last Thursday, Sept 19. Wonder if the two are connected, maybe teen “flashmob”?
Wow - good intel. I would say every ‘Baby Jesus’ is going to be a target during this year’s Nativity...
Perhaps Islamists did it.
They’re doing it in every other country.
No, we have only just begun to fight.
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“That was mere foreplay. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
(German: “Das war Vorspiel nur. Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.”)
- Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821
Cribbed from a quote website, though I thought it was Thomas Mann, perhaps he quoted Heine somewhere in his writings.
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