Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to “undo the curse that was just put on our city.”

An Iowa man has kicked off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa, Iowa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse.”

  • cannedtunaOP
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    People often seem to forget that “Religious Freedom” means all religions, not just yours.

    Never mind the importance of the separation of church and skate state

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      I’m glad you fixed it. Some priests are not down with the separation of church and skate.

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      You will literally hear dumb fuck xtians argue until they are blue in the face that what the Founders really meant to do was to merely allow you to choose among an array of xtian sects. Maybe if you are spicy, you’ll be permitted to be Jewish, because well, Jesus was a Jew. And we will “tolerate” that.

      Other xtians just seem to view “religious freedom” as “xtians get special privileges and they should be able to treat certain groups less-than if it suits them”.

      And man, they’ll definitely get butthurt when you point out that the First pretty much requires that you have freedom FROM as well as freedom OF. And that “OF” means…anything, not just xtianity. I’ll be a fucking pagan on Monday, fuck you very much because of that OF, and if I please, I’ll be an atheist on Tuesday because of the FROM. Because that’s real religious freedom.

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      separation of church and skate

      sings

      Now, Heaven would be a DJ spinning dub all night long

      And Heaven would be just kicking back with Jesus packing my bong

      And if you don’t believe in Jesus, then Muhammad or Buddha, too

      And while the world is warring, we just sit back and laugh at you, singing

      If I die before I wake

      At least in Heaven, I can skate

      'Cause right now on Earth, I can’t do jack

      Without the man up on my back

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        15 hours ago

        I was actually referring to NOFX, but that’s a solid song too