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Satanic Display at Florida Capitol Damaged
ABC News ^ | December 23,2014 | BRENDAN FARRINGTON

Posted on 12/23/2014 10:50:35 PM PST by balch3

Susan Hemeryck, 54, tried removing the display Tuesday, and when the Capitol Police told her she couldn't, she began ripping it apart. She was arrested and charged with criminal mischief. The display had been erected as a satire by an atheist group to counter a nativity scene, which was taken down the day the Satanic Temple installed theirs.

"It's just wrong, when you remove baby Jesus two days before Christmas and put Satan in his place ? that just can't happen. I couldn't allow it to happen," said Hemeryck, who said she was wearing a shirt that said "Catholic Warrior" when she arrived at the Capitol. "I was there at the right time and the right moment and I needed to take a stand against Satan."

Atheist groups last year began taking advantage of the Capitol's free speech zone after a Christian group installed a manger scene showing the birth of Jesus. The display last year 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.

The Satanic Temple display was rejected as "grossly offensive" last year, but this year ? following threats of legal action from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State ? the state Department of Management Services gave its approval.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: display; florida; satanic
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And for all the Christmas Hoopla, Easter is the crux of Christianity.

Why aint we bitching about bunnies and goofy bonnets?


41 posted on 12/24/2014 12:04:23 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

Yeah, he has the gall to talk about tolerance.

What a nut-job.


42 posted on 12/24/2014 12:06:45 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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Maybe Susan should whoop dumbass kids that sing ♫ We 3 kings of Orient are, smoking on a rubber cigar... It was loaded and exploded..following yonder star..

We get it, the display was offensive to Christians.
When have they not been messed with?

43 posted on 12/24/2014 12:11:01 AM PST by mylife
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To: DoughtyOne

Let him spin his tale.
Just shows his colors as a bomb thrower.


44 posted on 12/24/2014 12:12:23 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

....now they are using it against us....

So?...... What’s new about that...they used alot more against Jesus Christ. Did you think we would escape it?


45 posted on 12/24/2014 12:13:51 AM PST by caww
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To: caww

Nope.
I was expecting it.


46 posted on 12/24/2014 12:14:26 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

Me too...and it’s going to get worse.


47 posted on 12/24/2014 12:17:41 AM PST by caww
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To: DoughtyOne

The fellow has one foul so far, Want to bet he whiffs?


48 posted on 12/24/2014 12:17:42 AM PST by mylife
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To: Oliviaforever

It’s really laughable because if they don’t believe in God then who are they fighting?


49 posted on 12/24/2014 12:18:57 AM PST by caww
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To: FreedomStar3028
There is a difference between disagreeing with someone over small issues and religions that are generally peaceful and compassionate, and the worship of Satan. Which all of those said religions have a name for. The embodiment of hate, evil and the cause of everything wrong with the world.

What this woman did was perhaps hasty. But not wrong by any means. There IS in fact a difference between “tolerance”, and the open worship of evil.

Very true satanism should not be tolerated period. Perhaps some need to study up on it's beliefs and rituals before being so tolerant. It's as bad if not worse than radical Islam and has about the same regard for innocent human life especially children's innocence where the end agenda is to defile/steal it from them.

50 posted on 12/24/2014 12:23:20 AM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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Susan, just SUE the aholes that took down the nativity and use the same ruling.


51 posted on 12/24/2014 12:28:50 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

They are atheists who are using Satan (who they also don’t believe in) to antagonize Christians to the point that they will give up on displays of religion on public property. It seems be working.


52 posted on 12/24/2014 12:31:00 AM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: mylife

Huh? The people who put up the nativity scene don’t have a right to take it down?


53 posted on 12/24/2014 12:34:56 AM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: cva66snipe

The God that was worshiped by a majority throughout much of this countries history once enacted a scorched earth policy against child sacrificing, evil idolators. Not one man, nor woman, nor animal were spared. I can’t believe there were many children when many were sacrificed to evil by hideous vile evil “men” who were slain with merciless efficiency.

Oh, wait.....I just thought of something. Abortion? Uhg.....Church of Satan? Uh oh, my mind is starting to draw parallels.

Oh, I just realized that in the end times that much of the Earth will be as evil as the things wiped out of existence at the command of God early in the Bible.

Hold onto your butts.


54 posted on 12/24/2014 12:37:31 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: mylife

Satanism is not to be tolerated.


55 posted on 12/24/2014 12:37:35 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: caww
It’s really laughable because if they don’t believe in God then who are they fighting?

Religion. God is God. Religion is what people say about God. You don't have to believe in God to hate religion.

56 posted on 12/24/2014 12:38:42 AM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Hugin

Of course they do. Are you ready to give up?

Because they did.

But I’m not.


57 posted on 12/24/2014 12:39:01 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Hugin

Why would the Church take down the nativity?

The State forced it.
The day they allowed the offensive display to be erected.
Clearly a double standard.


58 posted on 12/24/2014 12:39:52 AM PST by mylife
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To: christx30
Problem is you allow one religion in, you gotta let them all in.

but Christmas is a Christian holiday... it should be respected... if they want to share a satanic display, then let them do it during another time... not during Christmas...

59 posted on 12/24/2014 12:41:50 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

They are not Satanist.
They are idiot punks.
And you still don’t get it.
Evil does exist, you can’t wish it away.


60 posted on 12/24/2014 12:41:50 AM PST by mylife
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