Posted on 12/10/2023 5:44:56 PM PST by Morgana
The Satanic Temple has set up a display of a sparkling demonic ram's head in the Iowa Statehouse as an expression of 'religious freedom'.
Alongside more traditional menorahs and Christmas trees, the group have erected an altar topped with candles, a large banner and a ram figure with a skull covered in mirrors, a red cloak and wreath.
The Temple reportedly went through all of the correct administrative channels for the display, and only had their original request to use a real goat's skull denied.
Founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, told KCCI: 'We're going to really relish the opportunity to be represented in a public forum. We don't have a church on every street corner.'
The display will be up for fourteen days and is protected under the First Amendment - but not everyone is pleased with it.
Iowa resident Shellie Flockhart is extremely concerned and organized a group prayer near the display on Wednesday.
She told KCCI: 'I hope that people realize spiritual warfare is real. That there are evil Satanic forces that are trying to infiltrate our state.'
She said Christians must spiritually fight against it and added: 'It's a very dark, evil force, and I truly hope people know how to battle that.'
But Greaves wasn't concerned by the push back, and said it is a symbol of their right to religious freedom.
He said: 'My feeling is, that if people don't like our displays in public forums they don't have to engage with them, they don't have to view them.'
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It makes me ill to look at it.
These are the fruits of “diversity” that our Republican “leaders” have embraced as much as the communist Dems.
Christianity is far too passive.
It’s just an ego trip, not like this is going to cause people to renounce Christianity and become Satanists.
I was thinking the same.
Won’t this bring in more votes for Trump?
So sick, and a definitive manifestation of the moral rot of this nation.
Don’t be a fool. The satanists / communists are after the children and want to normalize evil so they can corrupt them.
Their great weakness is what they think is their strength: it is the art of deception, and it brought them down the whole time they thought they were ascending.
Amazingly the question of the gender of Santa’s reindeer has been brought up according to People Magazine.
It said:
Surprise! Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and yes, even Rudolph, are ladies.
Introduced in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (a.k.a. “The Night Before Christmas”) they are commonly thought of and referred to as males but
Edinburgh University professors Gerald Lincoln and David Baird said Santa’s reindeer can’t be male for one simple reason: Only female reindeer still have antlers at Christmas; the males of the species shed their headgear before mid-December.
“Male reindeer actually cast their antlers before Christmas, so they don’t have any antlers at Christmastime,” said Lincoln. “They have their mating season in autumn when they use their antlers to fight, but once it finishes they cast them.”
it’s an expression of democRAT values...
“For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.”
They are doing this where nativities can be displayed, betting that people would rather demand the removam of all references to religion, even their own, Christ, than put up with a fake disco ball sheep head in honor of Satan. Let the atheists/Satan worshippers look vile, stupid and petty in stark contrast to love. The social libertarians are hoping to trick the majority into self-censoring and removal of Christian items in a way that differs from the maoists’ violently pulling down statues and monuments. It is different methods and motives but the same end. But truth will win out on its own whether or not disco goat is bleating for attention; truth does not need censorship to hide its nature or to hide its enemies, only evil does.
Idolatry is anything you love more than God. It doesn’t have to be stereotypical red devils or goat heads, it can be money, government, food, booze, drugs, sloth, celebrities, or often, one’s self. So manmade idols have always been present in the halls of power, before there was ever a nativity scene or cross on display. They pretend they are making things fair (what is good for the goose is good for the gander) but in reality all they are doing is adding yet another idol besides the money and power already there.
Good point.
To others: From Proverbs 8:7-8
100%
It’s Iowa:
Republican Governor
Republican Senate
Republican House
Republican Supreme Court
Republicans must love satan. Boo!
“Republicans must love satan. Boo!”
Somebody is in charge and Iowa and that somebody is green-lighting the satanists.
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