RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
September 10, 2015 at 3:09 pm
I don't think it's meant to attack Christians or Christianity at all, even in the most provocative sense imaginable.
None of us care about the religious who erect symbols of their faith. Granted, I'm creeped out by the giant crosses on the skyscrapers of Oklahoma City, but I don't object to them in the legal sense. (I do object to the city's population's clear choice to send the message, "this is God country, all you non-Christians", via such a display, but that's a different issue.) If you want to build Jesus-statues to your heart's content, go ahead! I think the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio is one of the coolest things in the world!
Nor do I think it's childish, what those Satanists did, at least not any more childish than those who would put any religious monument on a public space... but it was clever, tactically.
It IS an attack against a particular type of Christian, the ones who believe in Theocracy, trying to instill their religious faith into the secular government, that is, those who see "secular" as an insulting term and want to remove it from government. If you say you want a government "based on" your religious views, you're a Theocrat, and you need to be mocked in every way imaginable, by everyone: atheists, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Satanists, AND OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO UNDERSTAND WHY A SECULAR DEMOCRACY IS A GOOD THING.
The purpose of those statues on public grounds is no less than an offense against every secularist, Christian and atheist alike, in the country, and the Satanists figured out a way to ridicule them for it in a way that got enough attention to put a stop to it. That's all.
None of us care about the religious who erect symbols of their faith. Granted, I'm creeped out by the giant crosses on the skyscrapers of Oklahoma City, but I don't object to them in the legal sense. (I do object to the city's population's clear choice to send the message, "this is God country, all you non-Christians", via such a display, but that's a different issue.) If you want to build Jesus-statues to your heart's content, go ahead! I think the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio is one of the coolest things in the world!
Nor do I think it's childish, what those Satanists did, at least not any more childish than those who would put any religious monument on a public space... but it was clever, tactically.
It IS an attack against a particular type of Christian, the ones who believe in Theocracy, trying to instill their religious faith into the secular government, that is, those who see "secular" as an insulting term and want to remove it from government. If you say you want a government "based on" your religious views, you're a Theocrat, and you need to be mocked in every way imaginable, by everyone: atheists, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Satanists, AND OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO UNDERSTAND WHY A SECULAR DEMOCRACY IS A GOOD THING.
The purpose of those statues on public grounds is no less than an offense against every secularist, Christian and atheist alike, in the country, and the Satanists figured out a way to ridicule them for it in a way that got enough attention to put a stop to it. That's all.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
