Why did she get out of her car? Did he tell her to step out of the car? Why didn't she get back into the car when he told her to? This isn't Burger King. She doesn't get it her way. Neither do you. Obey law enforcement and do what they tell you to do.
She got out of her car because she wanted to. When the cop informed her of his business with her and asked for her documentation she complied. He had no cause to suspect her of anything more serious than a minor traffic offense, but he came on like he did and she reacted -- and it escalated.
Everyone doesn't feel the way you do about authority, Jeremiah. I've seen some of your messages and I know you to be unusually receptive to religious dogma and symbolism, which translates to extraordinary observance of authority. Although I'm a confirmed Catholic and I attended Catholic school I've been an atheist for most of my life and so my orientation is to question authority, not automatically submit to it. And I'm far from alone in that disposition.
I'm a born again Christian, Mike. What you've been observing is my submission to God and His authority because no servant could call themselves a servant while disobeying the authority He put in place here on earth.
Before I became a Christian I was also a Catholic, I didn't believe in God either. I've never met a Catholic in my life who knew God or believed His Word so you are not alone in stating that you are a confirmed Catholic and atheist.
It's what that religion does to people. It keeps them from having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
It's a religion that demands for it's church to be the go between - the mediator between God and man - when Jesus Christ clearly stated with His Own Words, Come unto me.... Jesus never said, Go to a Priest and confess your sins. We go directly to Jesus Christ and confess our sins...... not men!
Jesus never said, Change my commandments and pray to idols... We are to pray to Jesus Christ and keep away from every form of idolatry including praying to statues of dead people! Idolatry is a sin!
Jesus never said, the Pope will be speaking for me because I'm too busy! No, no, no. Jesus told us to come to Him! Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the Life, no man can come to the Father but by HIM.
You don't need a religion. You need a relationship with Jesus Christ! Here's the good news, Mike! God wants a relationship with you! I believe that day is coming!
Getting back to the subject of authority. You've hit upon the exact mindset of the atheist. I can do what I want because there are no eternal consequences.
If here and now is all that there is, if there is no heaven and hell, if there is no punishment for rebellion and no reward for obedience and if I am my own god....... I can do what I want!
Now for reality. There is a heaven, there is a hell, there is punishment for rebellion and there is a reward for obedience. God loves you. God is not a big stick in the sky waiting to slam you to the ground, Mike. That is the Catholic god, not the God of the KJV Holy Bible.
God is a loving, merciful, tender hearted Father seeking for his lost children to come to him through His Son Jesus Christ. God needs no mediators. He is quite capable of handling His Own relationship with His Own children. How would you feel if some scoundrel down the road started speaking to your little children telling them that they must go through him to talk to you! That it isn't
safe to talk to you directly!
Would you not be absolutely enraged? Yes, you can be sure that the wrath of God is coming upon the Whore of Babylon for attempting to steal God's glory for themselves, even crowning themselves to be gods before the world! That day is coming......but let us get back to you.
What Jesus Christ wants to offer you is eternal life so that you may have a
relationship with Him that will fulfill the empty place inside of you that is making life a meaningless existence.
You cannot earn your salvation. It's a free gift and when you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior believing on Him - that he died on the cross and God raised him from the dead - yes, believing in your heart and confessing with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, your name will be written in the Lamb's book of life and you are now on your way to a wonderful relationship with Him.
The Lord will give you a new heart that desires to obey Him and then you'll find you no longer desire to go your own way.