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Missing the Point: No, Satanic Christmastime Displays Are NOT Constitutionally Required
American Thinker ^ | 27 Dec, 2021 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 12/27/2021 4:07:57 AM PST by MtnClimber

In fact, Christmastime displays featuring Baphomet, a Festivus pole and everything from soup to nuts to the nutty do perfectly represent our age’s spirit.

What does it say about a civilization when it feels compelled to place a satanic display next to baby Jesus at Christmastime? As a general question, you can answer that for yourself. But among other things, in our case it means too many Americans — including judges — wouldn’t know the Constitution from the Communist Manifesto.

The story here is that the baby Baphomet, a goat-like creature worshiped by satanists, has been placed alongside a Christmas tree, a Nativity and a menorah in Springfield, Illinois State Capitol Rotunda. This isn’t just a one-off, either, but reflects now common insanity. It also isn’t just limited to “liberal” states.

For example, at the Florida State Capitol in 2015, a display showing “an angel falling into flames with the message ‘Happy Holidays from the Satanic Temple’,[sic] had been erected...as a satire by an atheist group to counter a nativity scene which had already been taken down,” reported Fox News at the time.

What’s more, the display the previous year, Fox tells us, “included a Festivus pole in tribute to a holiday created on ‘Seinfeld’ that satirizes the commercialism of Christmas and a display by the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, which mocks beliefs that a god created the universe and argues instead that the universe was created by a plate of pasta and meatballs.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 12/27/2021 4:07:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Should MLK “Marade” organizers be forced to allow kkk marchers?


2 posted on 12/27/2021 4:08:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 12/27/2021 4:08:50 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“The story here is that the baby Baphomet, a goat-like creature worshiped by satanists, has been placed alongside a Christmas tree, a Nativity and a menorah”

Shocking. Don’t they know that Hanukah was over a month ago;-?


4 posted on 12/27/2021 4:11:57 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: MtnClimber

What happens if people “join in the fun” of Ramadan by bring Jesus displays to the party? Would that be “hate speech”?


5 posted on 12/27/2021 4:12:03 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course. We want to be inclusive and stop marginalizing minority points of view./s


6 posted on 12/27/2021 4:13:02 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Irving Berlin was Jewish wrote Christmas carols. Could infidels write Ramadan carols. For example

1. Who put the Ram in the Ramadanadingdong?
2. When do we eat, dammit!
3. One whole freakin’ month of this!
4. There’s a new moon on the rise; or
5. 72 virgins when I pull this cord


7 posted on 12/27/2021 4:17:10 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Of course, mocking Christianity is “daring” and “inspired” and is the most protected speech of all. But mocking Islam is “hate” “a crime” and will be severely punished.


8 posted on 12/27/2021 4:22:14 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: MtnClimber

i agree with the author’s premise that, if i read this right, that any religious display is NOT required constitutionally.

it is the will of the people that desire these displays, all of them.
therefore, there is no dispute for dispkays on private land.


9 posted on 12/27/2021 4:35:33 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: MtnClimber

Should MLK “Marade” organizers be forced to allow kkk marchers?

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I don’t know if that’s the author’s central point but it should be.

Having freedom of speech doesn’t mean you get to essentially take away my freedom of speech by screaming while I am making a speech.


10 posted on 12/27/2021 5:22:42 AM PST by bramps (t's the Islam, stupid!I )
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Well phrased, good comparison between the liberal hatred of Christianity, and their absolute protection of Islam.


11 posted on 12/27/2021 5:52:45 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: MtnClimber

“and a menorah”

I wonder why other religions have such a strong desire to co-opt Christian celebrations? Do Christians ever attempt to do the same to other religions? I don’t think so.


12 posted on 12/27/2021 6:01:56 AM PST by suthener ( )
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To: MtnClimber

It’s sad that things have devolved so badly from what the Pilgrims wrote in the Mayflower Compact: “...for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith... “


13 posted on 12/27/2021 6:10:50 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Your five Carols are inspired.


14 posted on 12/27/2021 6:27:34 AM PST by RCFlyer
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I wonder if I’ll make money off them like Irving Berlin.


15 posted on 12/27/2021 7:08:34 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Eleutheria5

6. 99 Luft explosive balloons.


16 posted on 12/27/2021 8:05:44 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Maybe we should come up with lyrics;-?


17 posted on 12/27/2021 9:08:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: MtnClimber

These activists are turning celebrations of the birth of Christ into something resembling an Addams’ Family garage sale. They should have their own displays at wherever it is they meet.


18 posted on 12/27/2021 9:46:19 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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