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

[Bob Kelso]

Here's the thing: if you have to limit your statue-building to just "those statues that won't offend anybody," then you would never ever build a religious monument at all. 

The only thing about it that I find offensive is the fact that is was meant to offend, Esq. That's what I'm trying to say. And I know you don't believe that it was meant to offend, but I do. Otherwise, I think it's petty to be "offended" by other people's religious symbols. It's only when it's meant to be offensive and hateful that it's offensive and hateful lol. 

So how about just limiting them to the ones that aren't deliberately meant to be hateful towards a group of people? That's where I stand on this.

Not that this hasn't been addressed, but this last bastion of "reasoning" that you cling to is just so ridiculous that it's obscene. 

You know that this statue was meant to be provocative, and that the intent behind the provocation was to cause thought -not hatred-... it's been explained to you now for twenty-nine pages. Do you think that there haven't been other attempts to get eyes and ears on this seemingly never-ending situation of religious oppression before? There have been. 

People have petitioned and talked until their hands have cramped and they're blue in the face, to little effect imo. Provocation is one of the only things that has provided such a brilliant highlight to the issue at hand. If your initial reaction as a Christian was offense then the job is half done, the only thing that's left is to set aside the first reaction and think. Bloody hell.