What are they thinking? Postscript:<\/STRONG> Leave it to Still, Arts Journal reader Shane Hockin has a point:<\/P> What are they thinking? It has me flummoxed. Four out of five Americans disapprove of removing the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building. I know America is populated by weirdos. How else do you explain TV shows like Fox’s “Miss Dog Beauty Pageant“? But have we gone so completely nuts that we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-5H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFour out of five Americans disapprove of removing the Ten Commandments monument from the
\nrotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building. I know America is populated by weirdos. How
\nelse do you explain TV shows like Fox’s
\nPageant<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/EM>“? But have we gone so completely nuts that we want
\nto install a theocracy? Have we learned nothing from the Ayatollahs? Take a look at
\n
\nin the rotunda?<\/P>
\n
\nthe punchline: “Too many editorialists have described the recent flap as a silly confrontation with
\nexhibitionist fundamentalism, when the true problem is our failure to recognize that religion is not
\njust incongruent with morality but in essential ways incompatible with it.”<\/P>
\n
\n
\nBoth sides are totally overreacting. On one side, one hunk of concrete in a
\ncourthouse does not mean the Bible is going to become America’s lawbook just because it has
\nreligious jargon on it. On the other side, one hunk of concrete taken out of a courthouse does not
\nmean that everyone’s religious rights are going to be taken away from them next
\nweek.
If we take a single step right or left, everyone gets all up in a hissy fit. Nine
\ntimes out of ten the hissy fit is unwarranted and we soon step back in the middle again. The whole
\nthing has been blown out of proportion. … In the end I blame Judge Moore. To make
\nhimself look like a martyr he has made a mockery of our judicial system. At least someone had the
\nsense to suspend him. Hopefully soon we can all get on with our lives and worry about important
\nthings like ending war, fixing the economy, and getting some tacos for lunch.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"