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

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They were attempting to make a point. How noble of them. Asswipes.

Yeah, because there's absolutely no ideological message intended in plastering the landscape with christian iconography and then asserting that those icons represent the origins of the laws of the land, right?

Not all, just the self-identified Satanists. They are explicitly faking it purely as an act of defiance. Gee, Esq., don’t let the facts get in the way of your bullshit.

So when I specifically stated, in the post you are replying to, that Baphomet and what it represents is even a suitable figure for "satirical Satanists out to make a point," I guess you just decided not to read that bit? I guess it would get in the way of yet another condescending insult, so it's no wonder, but are you actually under the delusion that you're responding to my posts when you selectively filter out bits like that?

My point remains the same anyway, that Satanism has a culture and figures of its own, but that christianity is all too willing to reduce all of that to a direct attack upon them and nothing else. It's self-centered, is what it is, and you only confirm that when you decide that it's an "act of defiance," rather than a cogent point to be made about the separation of church and state. It can't just be literally the thing they said it was in their press release, it has to be about you.

So you agree that they’re being disingenuous by selecting a symbol they know resembles the devil to represent their pretend religion and using it to express their hatred for the followers of Christ...and you’re standing up as the apologist for this bigotry.

No, I'm saying that christianity doesn't have ownership over goat-humanoid creatures, especially in light of the fact that christianity itself stole its devil figures from earlier archetypes. It doesn't matter whether something resembles the devil or not because the devil is not the baseline from which all other similar figures originated. You don't get to dictate how something is to be taken just because you have one in a long line of goat-horned human characters that you somehow think deserves special emphasis as the root of them all.

That, and my earlier point about the egocentric nature of christians regarding having to share space with other religions... which you're still demonstrating to be true by making this about attacking your religion, rather than equal representation. Good job proving my points, Chad.