Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 06/18/2015 4:12:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Atheist activist group The Satanic Temple is apparently making good on its mission to erect a statue of Satan, intended for an ultimate destination next to the Oklahoma State Capitol's monument of the Ten Commandments. In fact, TST plans to unveil the completed statue for the first time in Detroit next month.
Why Detroit? Last year, the group chose Detroit as the location for its first national chapter house. "Detroit is our first and primary chapter," spokesman Doug Mesner says by email. "We feel at home in Detroit."
The group of culture jammers pushes for a separation of church and state by distributing Satanic literature and fighting to be included alongside displays of Christianity on state grounds. Last year, the group erected a small temporary holiday display on Lansing's Capitol lawn when it was announced that a Nativity scene was being proposed for the location.
The finished Oklahoma sculpture depicts "Baphomet," Satanism's winged, goat-headed icon. In a press release, TST calls the bronze monument — which weighs one ton and stands at nearly nine feet tall — "already the most controversial and politically charged contemporary work of art in the world."
While Oklahoma's Ten Commandments statue was destroyed last year after being run over by a car, it was swiftly replaced in January. Meanwhile, the group's request to place the Satanic monument on the same grounds has not been granted. Mesner tells us that the Satanic Temple is currently gearing up for a lawsuit against Oklahoma; it is expected to be officially filed before the unveiling event.
In the meantime, the statue will get an unveiling party on Saturday, July 25 at Bert's Warehouse Theatre on 2739 Russell St. in Detroit. The party starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $75 for VIP and available for purchase online.
VIP ticket holders get an exclusive opportunity to be photographed with the statue, receive a limited edition poster, and "an opportunity to meet and greet with TST Executive Ministry," according to the flyer. "Cocktail attire" is encouraged — "dress to impress the devil."
It was a play on words.
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well learned politics
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
***TST calls the bronze monument — which weighs one ton and stands at nearly nine feet tall***
Some scrap metal dealer will be very happy in a few years!
Does anyone, anyone at all, believe that our founding fathers meant to include Satan worship in the concept of “Freedom of Religion”? I don’t.
Where better?
no, they certainly did not.
they simply didn’t want a single government sponsored denomination because they had seen how that had embroiled the countries of Europe in various religious wars for hundreds of years. they wanted that to be avoided for us, but they most certainly did not intend to create a secular/atheist state that has arisen in the minds of some since the early part of the 20th century. not coincidentally, right around the time the Frankfurt School communists immigrated here and started to infiltrate academia, government, and our culture.
Is it just me or does it look like Obama?
That there is funny! Not sure about the two fingers pointing upwards, but there’s plenty of photos of him with the single finger pointing upwards ‘sign’ while in the company of his MB pals.
Graffiti in....5,4,3,2,1.
it IS 0bama
100%
It must be tough trying to be a media whore these days.........
No thank you. The evil reeks from a mile away. Don't invite that crap into your home.
[Those who have been putting off getting right with God, now might be a good time. Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one.]
I’m pretty sure that they understood it as freedom from the kings particular denomination of christianity.
Once again, the new improved Internet-laden news media shows that it has it’s head, um, up it’s six!
They wrote: “Atheist activist group The Satanic Temple”. THAT is a contradiction in terms! Satanists are not atheists, since atheists avow of or to no god at all, and i’m sure some of the local readers made that plain to the Detroit newspaper.
Now as to the unveiling and the following proceedings, like it or not, it is 1st Amendment preotected activities.
Unfortunately, for those that want a COMPLETE christian America, again, ‘you’ would have to eliminate EVERY person in the country, that does not ascribe to the christian faith, including those of all ages, and military veterans, as well. THAT would be an aberration of the 1st Amendment, and spit in the faces of those who gave their lives for this country, who DID ascribe to THEIR faith, and not ‘YOUR’S”.
Jefferson used a term:
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God”
Mind you, he did NOT say ‘your’ god, or ‘my’ god, referring to himself, but between man and his god. I hold, therefore, that this issue is between ‘you, the reader’, and your god, without interjecting anything referring to ‘my’ god, from me.
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