RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
September 11, 2015 at 3:07 pm
She just doesn't like feeling like the Satanists were attacking Christianity, and refuses to acknowledge that they had a legitimate reason for doing so.
We can tapdance around about the Satanists' official statement all day, but it's pretty clear to me why they did it, and pretty clear to me that they were right to do it, since it's unlikely Christians would have cared about any other method, as Cath here has pointed out for us. When we allow theocratic intrusion into our democracy, they feel they win by default, since they're so overwhelmingly dominant, numerically and culturally.
What bothers me is the unwillingness or inability to acknowledge that it's not okay to insert theocracy into our democratic institutions. It's especially troubling to hear a Catholic saying this because it was the Catholics who are responsible for the change to the national motto printed on our money and the insertion of "under God" into the Pledge, ironically dividing the phrase "one nation indivisible" by placing "under God" in the middle of it. It's a form of Dominionism, the belief that this is a Christian nation and that people need to be shown that, as a form of social intimidation.
It's not just a religious statue. It's a symbol. And that symbol stands for "theocracy" in law... in another Abrahamic religion, that is called "Sharia law". Sharia and Christian Dominionism both should be attacked. They deserve to be attacked in a pluralistic, secular society.
We can tapdance around about the Satanists' official statement all day, but it's pretty clear to me why they did it, and pretty clear to me that they were right to do it, since it's unlikely Christians would have cared about any other method, as Cath here has pointed out for us. When we allow theocratic intrusion into our democracy, they feel they win by default, since they're so overwhelmingly dominant, numerically and culturally.
What bothers me is the unwillingness or inability to acknowledge that it's not okay to insert theocracy into our democratic institutions. It's especially troubling to hear a Catholic saying this because it was the Catholics who are responsible for the change to the national motto printed on our money and the insertion of "under God" into the Pledge, ironically dividing the phrase "one nation indivisible" by placing "under God" in the middle of it. It's a form of Dominionism, the belief that this is a Christian nation and that people need to be shown that, as a form of social intimidation.
It's not just a religious statue. It's a symbol. And that symbol stands for "theocracy" in law... in another Abrahamic religion, that is called "Sharia law". Sharia and Christian Dominionism both should be attacked. They deserve to be attacked in a pluralistic, secular society.
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.
