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A Satanic organisation unveiled a controversial bronze Baphomet sculpture in Detroit just before midnight on Saturday, after trying in vain to have it installed near a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.
Due to planned demonstrations, the group, which is opposed to Bible-themed displays on government land, kept the location of the unveiling of its nine-foot-tall monument secret until the last moment, when it emailed the information to ticket holders.
The Satanic Temple unveiled the one-ton statue at an industrial building near the Detroit River just before 11.30pm local time as supporters cheered: “Hail Satan.” Some of the hundreds in attendance rushed to pose for photos.
Very fitting city.
The Satanic democrats have something to prostrate before other than an Obama cardboard cutout stolen from a trash pile now.
I give it a day before it's stolen and sold for scrap. Detroit is Detroit after all.
The Satanic democrats have something to prostrate before other than an Obama cardboard cutout stolen from a trash pile now.
I give it a day before it's stolen and sold for scrap. Detroit is Detroit after all.
"Lawmakers in the socially conservative state responded with threats to seek the impeachment of the court’s justices and pledged to push for changes to the constitution."
But it's the hard right that keeps insisting on putting up religious icons on gummint property.
Exactly! The statue was unveiled in Detroit, but their goal is to bring the statue to Arkansas, and place it near the ten commandments to promote religious freedom for all.
Most vitally, though, the group does not “promote a belief in a personal Satan.” By their logic, Satan is an abstraction, or, as Nancy Kaffer wrote for The Daily Beast last year, “a literary figure, not a deity — he stands for rationality, for skepticism, for speaking truth to power, even at great personal cost.”
“We chose Baphomet because of its contemporary relation to the figure of Satan and find its symbolism to be appropriate if displayed alongside a monument representing another faith,” Blackmore said.
The monument she refers to is a six-foot marble slab engraved with the Ten Commandments, controversially situated on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol. In 2012, state representative Mike Ritze fronted $10,000 out of his own pocket to have the marker installed in the shadow of the capitol’s dome, prompting the ire of those who believed it flagrantly violated the separation of church and state. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the state of Oklahoma; the Satanic Temple fought fire with fire. If the Christians could chisel their credo onto public property, the argument went, why couldn’t they?
I current live in Detroit, and this was all over the news. The unveiling was met with protests from Christian groups. The people coming to see the statue were highly supportive of the protesters expressing their religious freedom.
How fitting.. poor Detroit. It was once a great American city... Sad
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