RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
September 9, 2015 at 6:37 pm
(September 9, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(September 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: "But putting a symbol that came from the Christian/Jewish religion to represent evil, right next to a Christian/Jewish symbol, is a clear and deliberate sign of hostility towards an entire group of people. And that's the part I don't agree with." The symbol means something to a religious group different from yours, that it stands for evil in other religions is not coincidental but does not mean that it is not the symbol for their group. Just because you don't agree with it does not give it less of a right to be there My point stands.
As isolated symbols in the same property, I don't take issue with. But when one is already there and you put the other one right next to it, just seems like a sign of hate to me.
It seems like that to you. I get that.
What does it seem like to Satanists?
What does the 10 Commandments mean for a non-Christian when displayed on government property? Especially given its decidedly unconstitutional message?
One of the by products of the establishment clause in cases like these is prominence of display. If the 10 Commandments are prominently displayed, then all other statues will require the same level of prominence.
You Christians can't help yourself, and put that shit right in the entrance driveway or the front lawn, and that, in order to not show preference for one over another, is the same place where other monuments must go.
Your objection to the Baphomet statue is noted, but not relevant to the Constitutionality of the statue. If the 10 Commandments are prominently displayed, so must the Satanist monument. Regardless of what it's message is to you.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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