Baphomet more American than 10 Commandments

[Silver]

...it’s high time we actually take an artistic and symbolic look at the Baphomet and what it represents. Instead of focusing on the letter and spirit of the law, let’s think about the spirit of what America is for a minute and ask ‘Why not Baphomet?’

Many of the components of the Baphomet (as conceived by Elias Levi in 1856) are shared with another particularly prominent symbolic representation of the time. The highest point of the statue is a flame, symbolizing enlightenment, the torch of knowledge lighting the world and dispelling the shadows of ignorance. The figure’s right arm is held aloft while the left is held low, symbolizing, perhaps, the duality between the independence that comes with such enlightenment and the society we create together under a rule of law that ensures the least restrictive means to protect freedoms without infringing on those of others.

Baphomet, on the otherhand, is a representation of the unification of opposites, a symbol of disparate notions unified as one. Much like how America’s great melting pot is predicated on the idea that though people may completely disagree about such things as the very nature of reality we can still come together and make an equitable and egalitarian society in which we all can live. E Pluribus Unum. Meanwhile the artistic features of the Baphomet, when compared to other great works of the time, like the Statue of Liberty, evoke the enlightenment principles on which this country was actually founded. No matter how vociferously the likes of revisionist theocrat historians attempt to say otherwise, America is a beacon of Liberty and predicated on the belief that disparate peoples with competing beliefs can live united in these values through the rigorous application of secular laws and values.

In 1875, when construction started on the Statue of Liberty, individuals so revered the idea of Liberty that they deemed it worthy of personification in the form of a 15 story statue in New York Harbor. The world gave it its own island to stand on. In our modern era, those same symbolic references—the flame that is the light of reason and justice, the raised arm, the crown: those artistic symbols of freedom—are being loaded onto a truck and driven down to Arkansas for a rally against theocratic over-reach to combat a cynical attempt to “bring America back to Jesus.”

So next week when TST has their rally, and Baphomet is rolled out into the public eye, remember that what it symbolizes is not just some mere tool to combat Rapert’s theocratic cynicism. The values and meaning enshrined in the Baphomet rightfully deserve their place as a part of what makes America America at least as much, if not far more, than a list of 10 things that make one religion’s petty god mad.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/infernal/20...mandments/

[vorlon13]

Mammon is where it's at, baby !!!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mammon is where it's at, baby !!!

Sod Mammon.  The Dagda is all that and a new cap.



Boru

[Fake Messiah]

And yet Murica again hates it's own sons, like Baphomet, and chooses immigrants like Moses.

Because the Satanic Temple unveiled a statue of Baphomet at the Arkansas State Capitol during a First Amendment rally on Thursday.

However, the statue of Baphomet can’t be installed unless it receives legislative sponsorship under a 2017 law.

The Ten Commandments monument received sponsorship from Republican state Sen. Jason Rapert and was also installed in 2017. However, the monument was destroyed a day after it was installed by a man who rammed his car into it.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r...rotest-ten

[vorlon13]

Well, why not a car destroying a 10 Commandments display ?

There would be enough iron in the car to deter God from interfering with the protest.

LOL, maybe the Baphomet statues need to be made of iron to keep the Christians from messing with them ????

[Fake Messiah]

Well, why not a car destroying a 10 Commandments display ?

There would be enough iron in the car to deter God from interfering with the protest.

LOL, maybe the Baphomet statues need to be made of iron to keep the Christians from messing with them ????

This time they took precautions because they don't have faith that god will protect the display



To be honest it looks like a grave. Possibly a grave for the validity of the Bible.

[The Grand Nudger]

Archaeologists are going to come across that one day..buried in the rubble of a society that disappeared without managing to leave a trace of why..and as soon as they do, they're going to think:

"Ah..yeah, now it makes sense."

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Because the Satanic Temple unveiled a statue of Baphomet at the Arkansas State Capitol during a First Amendment rally on Thursday.

Looks a bit classier than a lot of those Civil War statues that caused such a fuss.

Boru

[EgoDeath]

I've actually studied Satanism quite a bit. Satanism, in many ways, echoes the beliefs/values of your average American far more than Christianity. Satanism is about loving yourself and those around you, living for you, taking pride in your achievements and doing the things in life that bring you joy. Granted, many Americans are still very sexually repressed which echoes Christianity quite well. Satanism is pretty American, especially seeing as how it was founded as a codified religion in California in the 60s. Today's Christian in America would be killed for heresy in a few hundred years ago or maybe accused of witchcraft.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

First lightning rods, now concrete rods. We's winnin'. 



Thanks to Fake Messiah for picture.