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Satanic Temple to Protest Ten Commandments at Arkansas Capitol
CNSNews.com ^ | 8/14/18 | Natalia Mittelstadt

Posted on 08/15/2018 3:04:26 PM PDT by marshmallow

The Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple is bringing its Baphomet statue to the Arkansas Capitol on Thursday for a “Rally for the First Amendment.”

The purpose of the rally is to protest the state favoring Christianity over other religions by displaying the Ten Commandments monument but rejecting the Satanic Temple’s Baphomet statue.

The Ten Commandments monument was approved in a 2015 act sponsored by state Sen. Jason Rapert, who privately raised funds to pay for it.

The Satanic Temple’s spokesman, Lucien Greaves, said in a press release, saying, “Freedom of Religion means that the government must not be allowed to endorse one religion over another or inhibit any religious voices from access to public forums in favor of another.

“By installing a Ten Commandments monument on their capitol grounds while rejecting other privately donated monuments of religious significance, the Arkansas State government has flagrantly violated a founding Constitutional principle, for which we call upon the people to rally with us to defend,” Greaves added.

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1 posted on 08/15/2018 3:04:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
And when We the People pull down your garbage "statue", Lucien, and smash it with hammers ...

That's just "freedom of expression". Guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Right?

Lucien?

2 posted on 08/15/2018 3:06:33 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: marshmallow

May God teach these idol worshipers a lesson they will understand.


3 posted on 08/15/2018 3:10:44 PM PDT by BipolarBob (In other news Satan is opening a Skating Rink in downtown Hell.)
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To: marshmallow

Hey lucien....a .22LR fired from a suppressed 77/22 from say, a dark tinted car window moves at an impressive velocity and enough accuracy to hit a melon under a hundred yards or so....very quietly. Neat eh?


4 posted on 08/15/2018 3:11:42 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: marshmallow
Guest speaker at the rally:


5 posted on 08/15/2018 3:20:41 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: marshmallow

Set up areas for positive things and call them “museums.”


6 posted on 08/15/2018 3:21:38 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: DCBryan1

My guess the idol will have as many bullet holes within a week as your average Arkansas highway sign.


7 posted on 08/15/2018 3:23:49 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: marshmallow

If it weren’t for the ten commandments they would have nothing to rebel against.

Satan’s direction comes from rebelling against God.


8 posted on 08/15/2018 3:27:06 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: marshmallow
The Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple

figures

9 posted on 08/15/2018 3:58:40 PM PDT by Pelham (Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
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To: Pelham
The largest temple is in Detroit, but the "headquarters" is in Salem, MA.

If you want to do anything with witches or devils, you move to Salem, but the national headquarters looks very much like a shoestring operation.

10 posted on 08/15/2018 4:08:19 PM PDT by x
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I would have expected Satan to be a bit more generous to his acolytes.

Maybe times are tough in Pergamum, or across the River Styx, or San Francisco, or wherever it is that he hangs out before the big transfer to Hell.

Pretty sure Anton LeVay had better digs than that.


11 posted on 08/15/2018 4:19:22 PM PDT by Pelham (Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
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To: marshmallow
They need a dog.


12 posted on 08/15/2018 4:25:21 PM PDT by Pelham (Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
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To: x

the Church of Satan HQ is in Salem, Massachusetts, eh?

apparently the Witch Trials ended too soon?


13 posted on 08/15/2018 4:49:26 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( "Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity
It's a 1970s, post-hippie thing.

Some people think it started when TV's Bewitched went to Salem to shoot on location.


14 posted on 08/15/2018 5:13:56 PM PDT by x
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To: x

Ha! Could be


15 posted on 08/15/2018 5:42:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( "Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: marshmallow

The Satanic Temple’s spokesman, Lucien Greaves, said in a press release, saying, “Freedom of Religion means that the government must not be allowed to endorse one religion over another or inhibit any religious voices from access to public forums in favor of another

Cool! Stab them to death right there since “Thou shall not kill” is out the window.


16 posted on 08/15/2018 6:14:22 PM PDT by Bommer (Jesus is God! Deal with it.)
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To: marshmallow

Take it up with God - I wonder how they feel about the 2 New Covenant Commandments - love God with all your being and love your neighbor as yourself...for where there is love, there is no harm and that in and of itself fulfills the intent of the Commandments....


17 posted on 08/16/2018 3:47:04 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: x

Looks like a restaurant you would see in any small town in the US.


18 posted on 08/16/2018 11:21:57 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: marshmallow
The Satanic Temple hasn’t recruited the Pennsylvania ‘priest/child rapists yet... they're missing an opportunity... bird's of a feather...
19 posted on 08/16/2018 11:25:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (August 16 - NATIONAL "CANCEL YOUR NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION" DAY)
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To: marshmallow
The Satanic Temple hasn’t recruited the Pennsylvania Catholic ‘priest/child rapists yet... they're missing an opportunity... bird's of a feather...
20 posted on 08/16/2018 11:25:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (August 16 - NATIONAL "CANCEL YOUR NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION" DAY)
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