Posted on 01/06/2014 10:58:27 PM PST by Steelfish
Group Unveils Satan Statue Design For Oklahoma SEAN MURPHY
This artists rendering provided by the Satanic Temple shows a proposed monument that the New York-based Satanic group wants to place at the Oklahoma state Capitol. The statue features a bearded, goat-headed demon sitting in a pentagram-adorned throne with children next to it. (AP Photo/Satanic Temple).
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A satanic group unveiled designs Monday for a 7-foot-tall statue of Satan it wants to put at the Oklahoma state Capitol, where a Ten Commandments monument was placed in 2012.
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"The monument has been designed to reflect the views of Satanists in Oklahoma City and beyond," temple spokesman Lucien Greaves said in a statement. "The statue will also have a functional purpose as a chair where people of all ages may sit on the lap of Satan for inspiration and contemplation."
The Satanic Temple maintains that the Oklahoma Legislature's decision to authorize a privately funded Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statue. The Ten Commandments monument was placed on the north steps of the building in 2012, and the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued to have it removed.
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Let them put it up. I’ve seen what happens to innocents stop signs in Oklahoma.
Under that logic the American Indian tribes such as the Pawnee's have a right to their religious freedoms which were well established before we got here and restart their human and animal sacrifices.
Yes, government does have rights to make legal determinations up to a point to stop religions that abuse or kill others it just can not go any farther than that.
Ahhhh, I see the pan pipe in his garment.
It also interesting that Micheal is a grown, feminine looking white man in the painting and there is a sleeping black child at his feet, with white children tending both him and the black child.
I’m surprised that the child to his left shoulder doesn’t have a loin cloth— his adult self is covered and all the children are carefully positioned to hide identifiers... except the one that looks to be a female child.
I’ve never seen that painting but it certainly says a lot. He was messed up and his childhood must have really sucked, I don’t even want to think about it. Sad.
Poor thing was a multimillionaire superstar sensation as a kid.
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Summer Solstice Celebration In Central Park with Stephen Popiotek and Maryanne Savino
Monday, June 21, 2010
7:30 pm
The Summer Solstice is a time for celebration, joy, playfulness, creative power and fullness of life. It is also a time for purification and self-renewal, a day to see the creator in everyone you come in contact with and to recognize their divinity along with the recognition of your own God/Goddess self.
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Cleopatra’s Needle, isn’t that the one Egypt wants back because we aren’t properly protecting and caring for it? It seems the worshipers would be raising funds to care for it.
That lady is creepy. I would have told her not to worry and doesn’t she know that if they’re proper satanists— they won’t show up in a photo anyhow and I’m just doing a quality check, then I would have cackled like mad. She would have puzzled a minute and then she would have thought me nuts... maybe enough to back off. :p
Is that a true capture of the debate?
I mean- is that photo shopped or real?
I would never want that. I think they trade their soul for it. Not worth it in my opinion. I would never want to be famous or have scads of money--I would hand out that money just as fast as I could.
It is time that we put this misrepresentation of the First Amendment to rest.
This is a overwhelmingly Christian nation (that is, the people). It is just that its laws and institutions reflect this while at the same time giving religious tolerance to just minorities. Those religious groups, however, which advocate violence or outright immorality do not deserve such tolerance. Nor should we allow any religious minorities to prevent the overwhelming Christian majority to express its beliefs in our laws and institutions. Such an act would itself be unjust and an act of intolerance.
Two of the four sides are badly weathered, thereby making it difficult to make out the hieroglyphics. As a onetime geology major years ago, I learned the reason for this is that it had been halfway submerged in mud for many years in Egypt, and when it got here, various salts contained in the mud began to react in the comparatively moist NY climate and those sides began to deteriorate. The other 2 sides look like they were carved yesterday.
The sunlight is early morning, from the east.
It’s beautiful and pretty amazing. Do you think we should do more to protect it? I don’t know much about it.
I marvel at the quality of work done in the past. It seems with most things as we become more modern, quality matters less and less to us.
I don’t think most modern homes will still be standing to enjoy and admire even a hundred years out without constant tending.
Phew.... I thought they were describing that it was Santa sitting in a chair with children around adoringly worshipping...while the ten commandments are right next to it...
That was close!
Shouldn’t King Julian be trapped up there with Marlene with Skipper and his crew trying to rescue him?
They are drawing the lines NICE AND CLEAR for everyone!
Good job!
“Oklahoma constitution: “ Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured...”
Ask the people who wrote it if they intended to include mohammedanism.
“The “establishment” part not only refers to the creation of an official state religion, but to whether or not any religion has been “established”.
That is utter nonsense. I don’t know where you picked that crap up, but do yourself a favor and stop repeating it.
“On top of that, there’s the bit about freedom of speech. If they let one religious group put up a display on the public square, they can’t reasonably refuse another so long as the other group’s display is appropriate.”
Road apples. It is long established that freedom of religion does not extend to satanic cults. Nor should it.
If there’s no other way to refute these bogus arguments once and for all, then I guess we need a constitutional amendment clearly excluding mohammedanism from the class of things known as “religion.”
It’s real. It was a big FR topic of discussion (that’s an understatement) in real time and for a long while after that. Should be easy to pull up on an image search with words like gore bradley debate apollo theater goat goathead etc.
There were also articles about viewers calling CNN complaining about the goathead demon in the backdrop. It was funny how it was “just” the way the stars were projecting/merging onto the backgound, but hey if it formed that goathead... I mean come on, someone or some”thing” was helping them out.
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