A satanic idol goes to the Arkansas Capitol building

[jayem]

"A bronze statue of the satanic goat monster Baphomet was unveiled Thursday [August 16] at the Arkansas Capitol building in front of a cheering crowd of free-speech activists and a smaller crowd of unhappy people holding handwritten Bible verses. The nearly 8-foot-tall statue’s brief public appearance marked the culmination of a three-year effort for the Satanic Temple to bring it there..."

No one actually worships Baphomet. He's hauled just around to be provocative. Another skirmish in the culture wars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...uilding/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cfa56375576f

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Headline: Dedicated trolling pays off.

 

[grasping the after wind]

I always associate Arkansas politics with the satanic. So it seems appropriate

 

[mark kennedy]

Grotesque but it tells you something about were this country is going.

 

[durangodawood]

....No one actually worships Baphomet....

Thats kind of sad. Once a god. Now forgotten.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Thats kind of sad. Once a god. Now forgotten.

Just like all the others.

 

[Desk trauma]

Grotesque but it tells you something about were this country is going.

Yes, one where Christians get incensed when others get equality.

 

[mark kennedy]

Yes, one where Christians get incensed when others get equality.

I'm hardly offended but this image is obscenity. By the way I never cared if the put up a statue of the ten commandments or not. I'll never forget passing a Klan rally on the State House steps, I noticed the small concrete ten commandments statue had been removeed, it was only about two foot tall.

You think this is how equality works, guess we have very different ideas about how we should exercise our civil liberties. I just dont like the statue, I think it's grotesque. I live in Indianapolis, I never liked monument circle because I think the art is warped.

 

[Desk trauma]

I'm hardly offended but this image is obscenity.

How can you at once find something obscene and not take offense from it?

You think this is how equality works, guess we have very different ideas about how we should exercise our civil liberties.

Yes, it is. If one group get to put up a monument to their religion on the court house law so do the rest.

 

[mark kennedy]

How can you at once find something obscene and not take offense from it?

There's a difference between a strong opinion and moral indignation. This thing was designed to cause offense, not out of some deeper meaning beyond that.

Yes, it is. If one group get to put up a monument to their religion on the court house law so do the rest.

Yea I get the legal theory, so lets erect some mpnument to a mediaeval goat god because it will pffend Christian sensibilities. The ten commandments have long been regarded as secular, the religious aspect being sumbolis, at least in modern times. This goat god has never been associated with actual governance, the ten commandments have. It was selected by atheists who cared only about being as obscene and offensive as posiible. They sure got it done.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Grotesque but it tells you something about were this country is going.

What does it tell us? And what's obscene about it? It's a guy with a goat head next to two kids.

 

[Desk trauma]

There's a difference between a strong opinion and moral indignation. This thing was designed to cause offense, not out of some deeper meaning beyond that.

The deeper meaning is that those wanting Christians monuments on public land will not accept others having the same rights.

The ten commandments have long been regarded as secular, the religious aspect being sumbolis, at least in modern times.

Err, by who? Half of the ten are purely religious laws.

 

[pgp_protector]

The deeper meaning is that those wanting Christians monuments on public land will not accept others having the same rights.



Err, by who? Half of the ten are purely religious laws.

Maybe they can knock it down to the 5 commandments then?

 

[Desk trauma]

Maybe they can knock it down to the 5 commandments then?

I would say three (don’t kill, lie or steal) the rest are not things I’m comfortable having the state meddle with.

 

[AirPo]

I would say three (don’t kill, lie or steal) the rest are not things I’m comfortable having the state meddle with.

Ever seen George Carlin's bit on the Ten Commandments?

 

[Desk trauma]

Ever seen George Carlin's bit on the Ten Commandments?

Yes but I cant seem to recall any details.

 

[SarahsKnight]

The deeper meaning is that those wanting Christians monuments on public land will not accept others having the same rights.

I would normally agree with a sentiment like this but this particular case is clearly an opposing group just looking to troll more conservative/fundamentalist Christians. Just hoping to start a fight. Because who actually worships Baphomet? Or any kind of demon or Satanic representation or forces of hell?

 

[Desk trauma]

I would normally agree with a sentiment like this but this particular case is clearly an opposing group just looking to troll more conservative/fundamentalist Christians. Just hoping to start a fight.

I would say they are just hoping get the Christians to relent on the religious monuments on public land or demonstrate just how hypocritical they are on that point.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Yes but I cant seem to recall any details.

He pretty much whittles them down to two commandments by pointing out the redundancy of some of them and combining others.

 

[AirPo]

Yes but I cant seem to recall any details.

That's good since it's not up to CF standards. Try YouTube.