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Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
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RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
(September 9, 2015 at 3:59 pm)abaris Wrote:
(September 9, 2015 at 3:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Do I have to care? Lol. I personally don't care whether there are or aren't any religious symbols on public property. Other people's religious symbols don't bother me in the least bit, and I have zero reason to be offended or feel disrespected by someone else's religious symbols, in and of themselves. Because of everything I have already explained though, I do not think it would be right to put a Demon right next to the 10 commandments. But generally speaking, I don't care what symbols are on this property.

And so you do care. If you didn't, you wouldn't have any objections. The intent is to be provocative. They wanted to point out that the constitution is broken by a religious display on public ground. And the courts, as I said above, thinks the same.

My objection is to the hateful implication of putting a Demon next to the 10 Commandments, in the same way I'd feel if someone wanted to put a swastika next to the Jewish Star. If someone wants to put a statue of a demon somewhere, on it's own, to represent their beliefs, I don't care. If someone wants to put a swastika somewhere, on it's own, to represent Hinduism, I don't care.
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RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue. - by Catholic_Lady - September 9, 2015 at 4:02 pm

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