RE: Your thoughts on Satanism and the petition for a Satanic statue.
September 11, 2015 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2015 at 3:35 pm by MTL.)
(September 11, 2015 at 3:28 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(September 11, 2015 at 2:43 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Right lol. Regardless of why it was meant to offend, it still was lol.
No, actually it's not. Your basis for finding it offensive is that the statue depicts Satan, who is a hateful figure in your religion. But the statue doesn't depict Satan, and so your basis is nonexistent. That you continue to insist that the statue is offensive shows that you either don't care about your own stated reason, or you refuse to consider the cultural significance of the Baphomet figure as anything other than a simplistic attack on christianity. Which I think is sort of the issue here: you're saying that offensive things shouldn't be erected, but your offense only exists because of your unwillingness to consider other religions on their own merits, rather than as some specific response to your own and nothing else. You're disregarding a century of history and culture because it doesn't fit the narrative you'd already constructed ahead of time.
You're not offended for any factual reason, just that you're a member of a dominant cultural in-group who's in so deep that you can't see the forest for the trees. You can only see the statue from the framework of your own religion, and are seemingly refusing to even consider the fact that an unconnected group of people might develop their iconography without thinking of your specific religion the whole way through.
Moreover, even if the statue WAS of Satan, so what?
You can't very well say that a statue, even one specifically depicting Satan,
is nothing more than a gratuitous insult to Christianity,
Since Satanism, as an entire religion, itself,
took its rise out of Christianity.
Had there never been a Christian Church,
there never would have been a Satanic Church.
(much in the way that had there never been a God,
there never would have been a Devil).
Had there never been a statue of Jesus on the Cross,
there would never have been statues of Baphomet OR Lucifer.
And since Christianity, itself, arose out of Judaism,
it can't really complain.
