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Florida Satanic Nativity Display Fail
Church Militant ^ | 12/7/17 | Rodney Pelletier

Posted on 12/08/2017 6:29:58 PM PST by marshmallow

BOCA RATON, Fla. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholics celebrate after a satanic display fails to go up near a public nativity scene in Florida.

In November, nearly 50,000 people signed a petition started by Return to Order — an organization associated with the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) — asking the city of Boca Raton to shut down a satanic display in Sanborn Square.

The satanic display, consisting of an upside-down pentagram with the words "In Satan we trust" and "May the children hail Satan," has been erected for the last two years by Preston Smith, a middle-school language arts teacher.

This year, however, it seems Smith didn't take out his permit in time and the display didn't make it into Sanborn Square with the Nativity scenes and Menorahs.

On December 1, more than 200 Catholics associated with TFP, America Needs Fatima and Return to Reason assembled in the square to pray the Rosary to stop the satanic display.

A press release by Return to Order noted the gathering turned from a protest to a "victory and thanksgiving rally" when attendees discovered Smith didn't secure a permit.

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


TOPICS: Current Events; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: christmas; florida; nativity; publicsquare; satanists

1 posted on 12/08/2017 6:29:58 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

A teacher.

A teacher!


2 posted on 12/08/2017 6:32:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is why our schools are so screwed up. Administrators hire Satan worshipers to teach the children, while God has been banished for 40 years.


3 posted on 12/08/2017 6:38:09 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

When the People turned their back on the Lord, He left us as the gift of free will requires, and Devil delights to fill the void.


4 posted on 12/08/2017 6:41:49 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: BenLurkin

You seem surprised.


5 posted on 12/08/2017 6:50:28 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: marshmallow

How is it this middle school teacher has not been driven out of town after the first time? You would think someone like that would be um... “accident prone”.


6 posted on 12/08/2017 7:15:43 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: marshmallow

Love it, love it, love it.

Merry Christmas!


7 posted on 12/08/2017 7:18:33 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Yet another LIB idiot “educator” working hard “for the children”.


8 posted on 12/08/2017 7:29:34 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

They’re very dedicated.


9 posted on 12/08/2017 7:33:52 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: marshmallow

I don’t particularly care. If you want to go to Hell, no one is stopping you. Funny that’s it’s so easy to go to Hell, while going to Heaven takes some discipline.


10 posted on 12/08/2017 7:49:05 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: marshmallow

I’d hate to be Preston Smith (without God’s grace ).


11 posted on 12/08/2017 8:05:02 PM PST by A strike (Television is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: marshmallow

Was this the thing that slouched towards Gomorrah?


12 posted on 12/09/2017 11:16:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: txrefugee

Official readings never put God in, so their abolition never took God out. I’d hold homes and churches to account far before schools.


13 posted on 12/09/2017 11:18:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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