'Demonic!' Tulsa city council meeting goes off rails as member told she's 'inviting evil'
outgoing councilor Crista Patrick stirred controversy when she brought pagan priestess Amy McAdams to deliver an opening invocation at the meeting that included nods to "the Gorgonea, champions of equality and sacred rage" and "Medusa, monstrous hero of the oppressed and abused."
In an interview with Public Radio Tulsa, Patrick said that she "wanted to share one little part of myself before I left office" and emphasized that the Greek goddess Medusa is traditionally known as "a fighter of injustice, especially for women."
However, her decision to invite McAdams drew swift condemnation not only from angry locals who accused her of being "demonic, or Satanist, or inviting evil into our city and our household," but also from Oklahoma's Republican governor and state superintendent.
"Satan is trying to establish a foothold, but Oklahoma is going to be a shining city on the hill," declared Gov. Kevin Stitt. "Tulsa City Council needs to stand strong against actions like this, and Tulsans need to remember who allowed this at the ballot box."
Superintendent Ryan Walters, meanwhile, as even more explicit in his condemnation.
"Satanic prayers are welcome in hell but not in Oklahoma," he said.
https://www.rawstory.com/tulsa-city-coun...an-prayer/
outgoing councilor Crista Patrick stirred controversy when she brought pagan priestess Amy McAdams to deliver an opening invocation at the meeting that included nods to "the Gorgonea, champions of equality and sacred rage" and "Medusa, monstrous hero of the oppressed and abused."
In an interview with Public Radio Tulsa, Patrick said that she "wanted to share one little part of myself before I left office" and emphasized that the Greek goddess Medusa is traditionally known as "a fighter of injustice, especially for women."
However, her decision to invite McAdams drew swift condemnation not only from angry locals who accused her of being "demonic, or Satanist, or inviting evil into our city and our household," but also from Oklahoma's Republican governor and state superintendent.
"Satan is trying to establish a foothold, but Oklahoma is going to be a shining city on the hill," declared Gov. Kevin Stitt. "Tulsa City Council needs to stand strong against actions like this, and Tulsans need to remember who allowed this at the ballot box."
Superintendent Ryan Walters, meanwhile, as even more explicit in his condemnation.
"Satanic prayers are welcome in hell but not in Oklahoma," he said.
https://www.rawstory.com/tulsa-city-coun...an-prayer/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
