{"id":1946,"date":"2007-06-19T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/06\/19\/thou-shalt-signal\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:05:00","slug":"thou-shalt-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/06\/19\/thou-shalt-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thou Shalt Signal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/RnhHZLgbgDI\/AAAAAAAAAdE\/0Avvz_7IIek\/s1600-h\/driving+1.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077887077771345970\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/RnhHZLgbgDI\/AAAAAAAAAdE\/0Avvz_7IIek\/s320\/driving+1.bmp\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The Vatican has released a set of &#8216;commandments&#8217; for driving safety. There are probably a lot of other things the Vatican could be spending its time on that are more important than this, but we don&#8217;t get to make those kinds of decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The &#8220;Ten Commandments&#8221; for drivers, as listed in the document, are:<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>1. You shall not kill.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination and an occasion of sin.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>7. Support the families of accident victims.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><em>10. Feel responsible toward others.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>You can read the CNS story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0703503.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The Vatican has released a set of &#8216;commandments&#8217; for driving safety. There are probably a lot of other things the Vatican could be spending its time on that are more important than this, but we don&#8217;t get to make those kinds of decisions. The &#8220;Ten Commandments&#8221; for drivers, as listed in the document, are: 1.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/06\/19\/thou-shalt-signal\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}