Posted on 12/04/2014 10:35:10 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — Florida’s Capitol will have a new holiday decoration this year. The Satanic Temple will be among its nativity scenes and secular presentations.
It’s for Festivus, a non-commercial festival “for the rest of us,” is close to coming back as a 6-foot stack of empty beer cans.
The Florida Department of Management Services this week approved the proposed holiday display from the Satanic Temple, which a year ago was rejected because the agency said its proposal was “grossly offensive.” The temple’s entry was one of five displays that got approval to be put up in the first-floor rotunda of the Capitol for the end-of-year holiday period.
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The lunatics are running the asylum.
A rotten raspberry
God will have the last laugh. Hopefully soon.
I’ve run out of walls to bang my head against.
Satanism isn’t a real religion. It’s a mockery of religion. Reject the fools.
maybe they can get a PCUSA clergyman to officiate?
Me, too. Doesn’t do any good anyway.
There are parts of the country (note, I did now say “Wisconsin”), where that stack of beer cans would not be offensive at all. (They might, however, be collected for recycling...)
Other fad faiths began as satires too. E.g. Scientology.
IMHO, these folks are mere dabblers. Other than the devil symbolism they don’t really go very far beyond vanilla secular humanism. If they addressed the devil in earnest they would probably soon be freaked out.
The problem I have here is that the leftists, athiests, satanists, whatever are doing this during Christmas. Christmas is a time that Christians celebrate the birth of their savior. They’re not doing this during Ramadan or Channukah, they’re doing it during Christmas, which, to me as a Christian, tells me that they are doing it in direct conflict and as a direct slap to the face of Christians during Christmas.
I believe it’s long past time that Christians stand up for their beliefs and their high holy days by giving back to the blasphemers the same way they do to us: burn down their displays, kick them down, trod on them or otherwise destroy them the way that the Godless heathens do to nativity scenes and other markers of the birth of our Lord.
I think Christian doctrine makes it pretty clear that we should be tolerant and understanding of many things but we also shouldn’t be complete pushovers. It’s long time that Christians start fighting back the way they did during the Crusades. I’m tired of this crap.
As I recall, Satanists of the Anton LaVey stripe are actually atheists; they don’t believe in God, and most certainly not the Devil as anything more than symbolic representations of the positive and negative aspects of human behavior.
LaVey once told me - personally, as I met him many, many years ago up in Portland, OR - that his philosophy was essentially Objectivism in pseudo-religious trappings, such trappings being present purely for shock value.
At least that’s one take on it.
Others “may” delve deeper to the supernatural aspects.
I couldn’t agree more. In fact, while reading the article I was thinking what a shame it would be if their little display got torched!
But now, he knows the truth.
“LaVey once told me - personally, as I met him many, many years ago up in Portland, OR - that his philosophy was essentially Objectivism in pseudo-religious trappings,”
Wow.
That is news to me, but it DOESNT surprise me, not one bit.
Ayn Rand was just another whiny atheist. A free market atheist, but whiny and bossy all the same.
I want to be very clear here. I will destroy this lucifarian display. I will do this. It is not a threat, it is a promise. I know full well I will go to jail. I do not care.
I cannot destroy something that celebrates Festivus.
Got a lot of instances of nativity scenes being destroyed handy, there?
I have no problem with satire or freedom of speech, and I also have respect for the property of others. I thought all that was pretty basic in our way of life.
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