Church of Satanology wants flag flown at Hartford City Hall after Christian flag was OK'd
The Hartford City Council’s decision to fly a Christian flag at City Hall has sparked a debate.
The council voted last week 7-2 to approve the Christian flag to fly from the front of the building during Holy Week, as they’ve done several times before.
But now, the man behind the Church of Satanology wants his flag to be flown too.
“I'm an atheist. I don't believe in Satan, but it's to draw an uncomfortable attention to something. So, it's pushback, the fact that there's flags up -- a Christian flags or religious flags at City Hall and public space that's uncomfortable to a lot of us,” said Chaz Stevens, of the Church of Satanology. “[The flag] says Satan loves the first amendment. It's not profane. It's not. It's not vulgar. There's nothing about this flag that should raise an eyebrow. If you put the cross up, which is a symbol of their beliefs, you should put up my flag.”
“When they put up the Christian flag, they made the flagpole a public forum and a public forum, you have to have the free flow of information. You can't pick and choose,” Stevens added.
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/loca...d/3551966/
The Hartford City Council’s decision to fly a Christian flag at City Hall has sparked a debate.
The council voted last week 7-2 to approve the Christian flag to fly from the front of the building during Holy Week, as they’ve done several times before.
But now, the man behind the Church of Satanology wants his flag to be flown too.
“I'm an atheist. I don't believe in Satan, but it's to draw an uncomfortable attention to something. So, it's pushback, the fact that there's flags up -- a Christian flags or religious flags at City Hall and public space that's uncomfortable to a lot of us,” said Chaz Stevens, of the Church of Satanology. “[The flag] says Satan loves the first amendment. It's not profane. It's not. It's not vulgar. There's nothing about this flag that should raise an eyebrow. If you put the cross up, which is a symbol of their beliefs, you should put up my flag.”
“When they put up the Christian flag, they made the flagpole a public forum and a public forum, you have to have the free flow of information. You can't pick and choose,” Stevens added.
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/loca...d/3551966/
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"
