Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.

[Pyrrho]

Two things:
1) You realize you have spent this entire thread saying the exact opposite, right?

2) What do you think a possible effect of having the 10 Commandments on a courthouse/capital lawn is if not reinforcing the supremely flawed idea that people should be judged or laws enacted that stem from that list of "God's Laws" they see when they drive to work every day?

1. You must have misunderstood. If we're talking about simply having a Satan statue somewhere, I don't care. My high school mascot was the blue devils. I didn't exactly throw a fit lol.

2. I don't see how/why it would effect anything, quite honestly. The people who are Christian working at the courthouse are going to continue being Christian, and those who aren't, won't. I don't think deep seeded American principles of separation of Church and state would go away because of the 10 commandments monument.

EDIT TO ADD: Remember, I said "I don't care as long as it doesn't effect the laws." So hypothetically speaking, if it did effect the laws, I would see a problem. Otherwise it just seems petty to me.

It seems petty to you because you get all the perks.  How would you feel if your money said "In Satan We Trust" on it?  Would it bother you that you have to use it anyway, even though it goes against your personal beliefs?  Do you think it is right for public property to be used to put up offensive religious symbols on them?  If not, then you should be against the 10 commandments being put up in public space.  It is offensive and vile.

The proper way of dealing with all of this is to actually follow the Constitution and take down all religious monuments on public ground, and take religion off of our money and other government-produced things.

The reality is that you like having a privileged position for your religion in government, so you get upset when things go against it.  You are fine with pro-Christian propaganda promoted by the government, but you have a problem with things that go against your religion.

But if we are going to have these things, frankly, it should be made a fountain, with the satan character peeing on the 10 commandments.  That would make it a much better monument, and would enable the 10 commandments to coexist with it.