Posted on 12/01/2018 2:45:03 PM PST by Simon Green
SAN JOSE (KPIX) The South Bays biggest holiday celebration appears to have fallen victim to thieves after someone robbed ornaments off a tree at Christmas in the Park in San Jose that had its decorations sponsored by a local Satanic group.
The crime happened just two days after the tree went up with the thieves apparently targeting a specific tree.
The tree targeted was decorated with pentagrams and other demonic symbols, its decorations sponsored by a Bay Area Satanic organization.
Some may wonder why a Satanic group would have a decorated tree at a holiday display like Christmas in the Park, but not the organizers of the event or the people who set up the tree.
Bay Area Satanist Simone Chavoor and her friend Tabitha spent Wednesday afternoon sprucing up the tree that was recently robbed.
The group decorated the tree on Black Friday, complete with an elaborate goat head as a tree topper.
Two days, later the topper and other satanic ornaments had vanished.
The Satanists filed a police report, but declined to file it as a hate crime.
It could be anything from kids, to people who dont agree with our viewpoint to people who are actually in agreement with us and think that our ornaments are cool, said Chavoor, a member of a local Satanic Temple as well as the independent group Satanic Bay Area, which sponsored this trees decorations.
There are more than 500 trees at Christmas in the Park which have been decorated by schools, sports teams and organizations of all kinds.
But it appears that the Satanic temples tree was the only one targeted this time.
It happens every year that one tree will get its ornaments stolen. We encourage people not to put ornaments on the trees that they think people will want to take, said Jason Minsky with Christmas in the Park. We encourage people to tie the ornaments to the tree so that they are harder to take.
The satanic tree is just down the sidewalk from a nativity scene which has also had its figures stolen over the years.
To some people, the close juxtaposition of Christian and Satanic symbols at a community Christmas event is no big deal.
Its freedom of speech and religion, said San Jose resident Grant Talarico. So as far as Im concerned the tree is fine.
Others said the Satanic tree could be offensive given the location.
Im not Christian, but Im sure some people would be offended because Christmas is a Christian holiday. And this seems like anti, since they have an upside down cross and everything, said Jag Jit of San Jose.
It is the second straight year that a Satanic groups Christmas in the Park decorations have been stolen or vandalized. Satanic Bay Area says its members will keep a close watch on the tree over the rest of the holiday period.
"Stand for" = "signifies" = "communicates via symbols."
A tree (or a flower or a hat or a pumpkin or a flag or a road sign or anything else) "signifies" something only when a particular symbolism is intended by the giver, and apprehended by the receiver.
If neither the person who displays the object, nor the person who sees it, intends it to signify such-and-such a concept, then it does not signify that concept.
It depends on an agreement with the "giver" and the "receiver" about what it means.
Therefore the Satanist's tree stands for sin.
And mine does not.
Why would Satanists sponsor a CHRIST-mas tree?
Oh. And here I thought it was to mark the birth of the Son of Man.
I guess all those hymns are wrong.
Yehova has said in his word many times that he despises “christmas trees.”
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Hymns offer much nonsense, and rarely a shred of Biblical truth.
Chapter and verse?
Chapter and verse?
Chapter and verse?
If they put the 'tree' up 30 times and run our of money redoing it - they might get some insight into why the rest of us don't appreciate the evilness involved in theft... or maybe they're too vile to catch that...
Obviously they not called christmas trees. (there is no christmas in scripture either, under that name, but the day is condemned for its evil traditions)
But they are mentioned by most of the prophets, mostly as “groves” or Ashta trees.
They are an abomination.
Isn’t a satanic group griping about someone raiding ther ‘Christmas Tree’ in the same field as a person calling a cop and complaining they gave 20 bucks to the guy on the corner for some weed/dope or whatever and they didn’t come back?
Or complaining to the police that the local bookie didn’t pay off a bet?
Poor analogy; Satanism isnt illegal.
I suspect the later.
"Dude! A pentagram Christmas ornament! That's awesome! I gotta have this!"
Wow. Thanks for setting me straight on that. I thought they were the “joyful noise” the psalmist called for.
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The “joyful noise” cannot be one that tells a lie!
That is the adversary’s noise.
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Depends upon whose laws you follow!
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Yep, who stole the needles and condoms from my tree?
Hard to make this stuff up!
Groves are an abomination!
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