"Victory" is a good one at the top of the soldiers and sailors monument.
Alpheus Starkey Williams only claim to fame seems to be in repeatedly getting his butt kicked by General Lee but he did get a cool statue out of it.
Posted on 07/15/2015 5:30:57 AM PDT by digger48
DETROIT (AP) — An 8½-foot-tall bronze monument featuring a goat-headed Satan will be unveiled at a secret, ticketed event in Detroit after the owner of a popular restaurant and entertainment complex backed out and opponents issued threats, organizers said.
The 1½-ton Baphomet, which is backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by statues of two young children gazing up at the creature, shows Satan with horns, hooves, wings and a beard.
The Satanic Temple, a group that advocates for the separation of church and state, will release the location of the unveiling on the day of the event, and details will be sent to ticketholders only, the group’s co-founder Lucien Greaves told The Associated Press Monday.
“Tickets are going to be pre-ordered to cut down on harassment … people threatening to burn the venue down,” Greaves said. “We’ve gotten those kinds of messages.”
“If people don’t want to come, they don’t need to come,” he added.
Greaves said he reported the threats to authorities.
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They’re just an oppressed civil rights group that advocates separation of church and state. Why they do that by using a deity is a little weird.
Detroit: This ain’t Seattle bitches
LOL
An idol of Satan with two adoring children looking up is acceptable, but a Confederate flag isn’t?
The children look like a young Hillary and Obama
> An idol of Satan with two adoring children looking up is acceptable, but a Confederate flag isn’t?
You can’t use logic or reason with a liberal. They just want what they want and will whine till they get their way
Exactly. The flag AND the statue are only symbols and nothing more. They are only offensive if you attach meaning and give them power in your mind. I personally don't give a damn about the statue...it has no meaning to me. Banning the flag, on the other hand, is an infringement on my personal liberty.
On another topic, is there any chance Dylan Roof (the South Carolina shooter) can make bail soon?
If I were a church, I would buy it and put it in the front yard to remind people that Satan is real.
If Matthew Quigley had twenty muchaels.
Aren't there more then one of these creepy things?
Lucien?
3000 lbs of bronze is worth about $5000 in scrap, cuts up easy with an acetylene torch, and can be hauled by a 1.5 ton pickup truck.
Where exactly is this block of metal located?
The exact same argument they reject when it comes to Christianity on the public square.
“Where exactly is this block of metal located?”
In a city like Detroit, that statue won’t last long before some “entrepreneurs” dismantle it and take it in to a metal scrap facility and collect the cash.
We are experiencing the Bible. It always seemed astonishing that Israel would turn to Baal and other idols. We see first hand how it comes to pass. When a people or nation reject God, it is like they have to rub God’s face in it, by making sure He sees what they are turning to. They don’t just say there is no God and go on. Whoa to us the Bible might say at this juncture.
Planned Parenthood will be selling baby body parts at the celebration...
It was mostly Jackson that kicked his butt(and who’s butt didn’t Stonewall kick?), but he did pretty well at Gettysburg and under Sherman in the march on Atlanta and through to the sea.
Correct. I was grabbing info from memory without checking it out.
In any case its a great statue.
Some things are so wicked they absolutely must be destroyed. This is one of them.
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