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

[Redbeard The Pink]

They picked Satan on purpose because it makes Christians uncomfortable. They could have just as easily picked Cthulu. They want you to be freaked out because it might be the only way to get some people to see how others feel when they're constantly bombarded with messages from a human-sacrifice-centered cult.

When my family (who are mostly Catholic, since I am half-Cajun, on my mother's side, even though she personally converted to Southern Baptist, my dad's faith) start getting too heavily into their human-sacrifice-cult talk, I tend to fire off a quip from Warhammer 40K to let them know how creepy I find their ideas:

"Blood for the Blood God!"

You can dress it up in a suit and tie and a pretty bonnet with bows, but in the end Christianity is a weird combination of a blood-sacrifice cult from the Ancient Near East's desert sheepherder/warrior tribes and amalgamations of the various Pagan ideas in first century Persian, Greek, and Roman cultures. The idea of murdering a man-god as a substitute for a baby sheep sacrificed ritually to placate a Blood God is no more or less creepy than any other pagan idea I have seen, including those of Satan Worshipers (distinct from Satanists). The only difference is that Satan Worshipers are more aware/open/honest about their creepy ideas, and our culture is so heavily-infused with the insanity of Christian doctrines that people don't see just how creepy their most basic ideas really are, when examined from a "fresh sheet of paper", so to speak.

Skulls for the Skull Throne!