That's not a strong urban "congregation".
NOW THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY." - II CORINTHIANS 3:17
Posted on 07/15/2015 2:07:23 PM PDT by NYer
Detroit has many problems. Here is another.
From ABC:
Threats Force Satan Statue Unveiling to Secret Detroit Venue
An 8½-foot-tall bronze monument featuring a goat-headed Satan will be unveiled at a secret, ticketed event in Detroit after the owner of a popular restaurant and entertainment complex backed out and opponents issued threats, organizers said.
The 1½-ton Baphomet, which is backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by statues of two young children gazing up at the creature, [?!?] shows Satan with horns, hooves, wings and a beard.
The Satanic Temple, a group that advocates for the separation of church and state, [Therefore, allies of the Madison based Freedom From Religion Foundation.] will release the location of the unveiling on the day of the event, and details will be sent to ticketholders only, the group’s co-founder Lucien Greaves told The Associated Press Monday.
“Tickets are going to be pre-ordered to cut down on harassment … people threatening to burn the venue down,” Greaves said. “We’ve gotten those kinds of messages.”
“If people don’t want to come, they don’t need to come,” he added.
Greaves said he reported the threats to authorities. The AP left a message Monday seeking comment from Detroit police.
The statue was to have been unveiled July 25 at Bert’s Market Place in Detroit’s Eastern Market district, but Bert Dearing said he gave the group back it’s $3,000 rental fee when he learned who booked the place. [Will he be sued? Is this like refusing to bake a homosexcake?]
“Detroit is a very religious area,” Dearing said. “When I rented the place, I just thought it was a church. I didn’t know about the unveiling of a statue. We weren’t aware they were into devil worshipping.”
The Satanic Temple Detroit chapter founder Jex Blackmore has said the group doesn’t worship Satan but does promote individuality, compassion and views that differ from Christian and conservative beliefs. [Ummm… read that again. Does that contrast “individuality. compassion” with Christian and conservative?]
The statue was designed and built at a cost of more than $100,000 and had been planned for the state Capitol in Oklahoma City until Oklahoma’s Supreme Court banned religious displays — including a monument of the Ten Commandments — on Capitol grounds.
Greaves said the statue will not remain in Detroit and that The Satanic Temple wants to erect it outside Arkansas’ Statehouse in Little Rock where a Ten Commandments monument also is planned. [So… this seems to be a plot also to eradicate the 10 commandments from public display… a goal of the Freedom From Religion types.]
Detroit was selected for the unveiling because The Satanic Temple in the city has a “strong congregation,” [?!?] Greaves said. “We just have a good community over there.”
Blackmore said Detroit has more than 200 registered members.
The group erected a display in December outside Michigan’s state Capitol in Lansing. The “Snaketivity Scene” featured a snake offering a book called “Revolt of the Angels” as a gift. The snake was wrapped around the Satanic cross on the 3-feet-by-3-feet display. Like other religious displays, it was taken down each night.
Bishop Charles Ellis III, pastor of the 6,000-member Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, said he is not concerned about a statue depicting Satan being unveiled in the city because America “was built on freedom of speech and freedom of religion.”
“If we ask others to be tolerant of our religion, we are going to be asked to be tolerant of their religion as well,” Ellis said.
“Tolerable does not mean you have to practice what they practice or that you are condoning what they are practicing. I’m not saying I’m being accepting. I’m just saying I have no control over that.”
I understand that there will be a Mass and Holy Hour of Reparation on 25 July at Mother of Divine Mercy Catholic Church in Detroit.
Catholic ping!
I hope that whoever gave a venue to these animals, and his insurance company, knows that once the “secret ceremony” has been held, his establishment will still be there and everyone will know what he did and where he is located.
Shouldn’t it be in front of the White House?
You can pretty much guarantee that this obnoxious gesture is going to end up in the scrap heap before the year is out.
Why? Isn't the real thing good enough?
The ABC website refrained from publishing a picture of the accursed thing, for some reason.
They want attention and to feel and portray themselves as hated.
Don’t give them the attention.
Right, another "victim" group.
Except they actually are hated.
Is this the same statue that they were trying to put in Oklahoma or Kansas- or is this a different one?
It’s kind of ironic that the left is trying to tear down Confederate statues at the same time these people are trying to put up statues of the devil.
brrr This is getting creepy.
The key was their drama queen stuff wherein they are scared of being attacked.
I ought to have said “hated and in danger of being attacked for their commitment to open mindedness by the backward close-minded forces of traditional religion.”
They may be hated but are in no danger, which is what they want to pretend.
That is the devil? I thought it would be a bit scarier. Seems like a nice ole chap. lol.
Let's remedy that.
Crap. I was hoping it would be bronze so it would be worth stealing...
Notice they are allied with “Freedom From Religion,” and they are going around to states with biblical/Christian monuments and nativity scenes in an added attempt to be nothing less than a wrecking ball against Christianity.
So “Freedom From Religion” is backing the satanic statues and scenes in public forums...
I was going to say how ironic, but in reality Satan is their master period.
ABC covering for their master again -
Look at a picture of the statue. Only one I could find was an AP pic.
The two kids looking lovingly at Satan bear a remarkable likeness to a widdle Hillary and widdle Barry
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