{"id":7978,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/dont-crash-your-car-to-prove-god-exists\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:10","slug":"dont-crash-your-car-to-prove-god-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/dont-crash-your-car-to-prove-god-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Crash Your Car To Prove God Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was traveling northbound on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Norcross, Georgia, when she crossed into the southbound lanes and drove head-on into a utility pole.  Her children, ages 5 and 7, were in the backseat.<\/p>\n<p>When the police arrived, they couldn\u2019t figure out why the car had crashed.  One of the girls told an officer what happened.  \u201cHer eyes [were] closed and she was saying, \u2018blah, blah, blah, I love God\u2019,\u201d the child said.  The girl continued, \u201cShe didn\u2019t want us to just have a car accident.  She wanted us to know that God is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bahari Warren confirmed the girl\u2019s story to officers \u2014 and was arrested on two counts of child cruelty and held on $22,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>There are probably better ways for a parent to show their children that God is real, such as living a life of compassion and morality.  Share with them the stories from the Bible and pray with them about the smallest things in life.  Don\u2019t drive into a utility pole.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from &#8220;Cops: Mom crashed car to prove to kids God is real,&#8221; by Raisa Habersham, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, March 23, 2018; < https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime--law\/cops-mom-crashed-car-prove-kids-god-real\/UnnsJPMfPLwdQ4HsTMt5VK\/ >.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was traveling northbound on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Norcross, Georgia, when she crossed into the southbound lanes and drove head-on into a utility pole. Her children, ages 5 and 7, were in the backseat. When the police arrived, they couldn\u2019t figure out why the car had crashed. One of the girls told an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1073,1069,1074],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}