members of the Satanic Temple<\/a> announced a fund-raising drive to place a statue of Satan on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds a few months ago. Their stated goal was to raise $20,000, but the times being what they are, $30,000 came rolling in for this worthy project.<\/p>\nNow, the instigators of this brain whatever have released photos of the statue paying homage to Satan that they want to place on Oklahoma\u2019s capitol grounds.<\/p>\n
It is, as we say in these parts, a dandy.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not up on my satanism, but what I see is an obelisk-looking plank with a pentagram atop standing next to a statue of His Lordship, the Prince of the Dark Realm \u2014 or is that Baphomet?? This dude comes complete with a ram\u2019s head with what looks like two horns and a tree growing out of the top of it. The ram\u2019s head sits on the shoulders of a buff human body. Two 1950s-style children are staring worshipfully up at this lovable fellow while he holds one hand aloft in what appears to be a two-fingered version of the Boy Scout salute.<\/p>\n
This deal is one fine piece of satanic kitsch.<\/p>\n
Of course, the ACLU has our capitol grounds all tied up in a court challenge to a law we passed a few years back, placing a plaque with the Ten Commandments on it out there on the lawn. After all, plaques with the Ten Commandments are scary, right? I mean, it endangers all our freedoms to put something like that right out in public.<\/p>\n
This ACLU zealotry for protecting innocents from the Ten Commandments is bad luck for the satanists. It appears they\u2019re going to have a long wait before their artwork \u2014 or any new artwork \u2014 is even eligible to be considered for placement on the Capitol grounds. Then, if they don\u2019t get what they want \u2014 and I can see a valid case for denying them based entirely on the artistic merits of this thing \u2014 I imagine they\u2019ll head off to court.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I would like to raise one small question. Why would anybody <\/em>worship Satan? Atheism, I can see. I mean, I don\u2019t agree with it, but I can see where its adherents are coming from. But to worship an entity who is well known for creating every kind of misery there is, and who enjoys our pain and suffering and feeds off it, well, if you\u2019ll pardon me for saying so, that\u2019s not too bright.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s right up there with drinking arsenic because you like the taste of sweet things.<\/p>\n
Be that as it may, we do have ourselves a bit of really creepy Satanic art to peruse while we\u2019re waiting for the next call in this little doh-si-doh.<\/p>\n
If the ACLU wins, and the Ten Commandments are banned from the Capitol lawn, then I suppose that leaves the Satanists with an expensive piece of ugly statuary to dispose of. If, on the other hand, the state wins (unlike others around the country, our attorney general actually defends state laws in court) then it\u2019s up to the arts committee to work out for themselves if this thing has artistic merit, or if it\u2019s just a laughable eyesore.<\/p>\n
After that, I expect we\u2019ll be off to court again.<\/p>\n
Yeehaw!!<\/p>\n
Grab your partners and promenade right.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s a compliment in a way. Satanists aren\u2019t trying to put monuments to their master in front of the Capitol Building in Washington. No need. Evidently, the people they want to go head to head with live in little ole Oklahoma. Who would ever have thought that Oklahoma\u00a0would be deemed important enough in the culture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1144,3018,4995,40,6404,299,41,5302,5345,1],"tags":[7850,6463,5305,6464,6465],"class_list":["post-22211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-calling-evil-good","category-calling-good-evil","category-christian-bashers-2","category-christianity-2","category-hell-2","category-oklahoma","category-politics","category-post-christian-west","category-satan-2","category-uncategorized","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-ten-commandments-plaque","tag-satanism","tag-satanism-and-oklahoma","tag-satanist-statue-and-oklahoma"],"yoast_head":"\n
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