They’d better get used to it, the filthy heretical hypocrites are all going to be spending eternity in Satan’s close proximity.
Christians fail to see the irony. How they view the satanic display at the capital building is how most of us view it when we see federal and state buildings displaying Christianity. It’s either all fine or none of it is. Don’t want to be angry? Then keep religion out of politics!
All they see is something foreign, which therefore must be destroyed with extreme prejudice.
Once you brainwash someone into believing in invisible sky wizards, you can mobilize them for any sort of hate and unreasonable ridiculousness.
That’s why we had the dark ages
That’s why we had the dark ages
That was more due to social decline after Rome collapsed and Europe degenerated into dozens of warring statelets. Not all of them were Christian-- the Nordics and Germanic tribes adopted Christianity centuries later.
The worst religious violence was during the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. That’s when you got state terror enforcing the orthodoxy du jour, whether Catholic or Protestant, generally by burning people. And the Inquisition started in the late 15th century too, attacking victims of forced conversions.
And quite a lot of our modern image of Satan was invented towards the end of that period, when Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Oh, they get it. That’s why they put those displays up in the first place.
Exactly. It’s a gigantic middle finger to anyone not in their little book club. The gaslighting they do about it - batting their eyes and saying, “but this country was founded on Judeo-xtian principles”, etc - is just icing on the cake for them.
"but this country was founded on Judeo-xtian principles”
And what a filthy lie that is. Most of the Founders were deists, and they despised organized religion. Thomas Jefferson made an edited version of the New Testament with all the miracles and superstitions bullshit removed. It was a thin volume.
Thank you! I always like to inform xtianists about this. :)
When they go on about how how this country “was founded on xtianity”, I ask them if anyone told Jefferson this “fact” of theirs. When they are like…huh? I tell them about his version of “the” bible, which without question would have been considered a “heresy” he could have been murdered over in other parts of the planet, and during his lifetime.
I also like how these people like to try Thomas Paine erasure; probably because the likes of Teddy Roosevelt called him a “dirty little atheist” - it got even weirder when the likes of Glenn Beck - who is in the LDS - tried to appropriate Paine - I was totally confused by that one, but hey, these guys are great at rewriting history and trying to appropriate things…
Sorry Catholics, but every time I see the depiction of a person tortured, bloodied, and nailed to a piece of wood, my automatic gut reaction is revulsion and disgust. First at the imagery itself, and then more deeply at the fact that otherwise sane people feel like this a completely normal thing to adorn their houses and bodies with. This is no different, people are just not accustomed to seeing Satanic imagery and symbolism in public, which is the whole fucking point.
Carpenter got nails in his hands. Seems a bit careless of him.
Remember the HitchSlap? The Internet remembers. My goodness, do I miss that guy.
I remember him debating Dinesh D’Felon while having a brew. He was that unimpressed by the “intellect” of D’Felon…
“…unicorns… blah blah blah…”
Unlike their god… Unicorns exist.
Okay, so maybe they’re fat. stop body shaming.
This majestic creature is BUILT
Republicans outraged because [insert person/thing] made conservatives see/hear [insignificant thing] they could manufacture outrage over.
Repeat again tomorrow.
I believe the last time these people encountered such religious intolerance, they left Europe for the new world. Time for them to seek another new world…
I believe the last time these people encountered such religious intolerance, they left Europe for the new world.
They were booted out by the Dutch and weren’t welcome back in England. They didn’t quit, they were fired. And the reason they were so despised was because of their own religious intolerance. When they established colonies, they quickly became dystopian hellholes crawling with witch-hunters and similar con artists.
So, you say they’re doing it again…?
Mars awaits!
Great… stick them in Starship with space Karen and let them blast off then
What do you call people who believe in satan?
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Christians.
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Well, yes, technically any Abrahamic religion.
Jews dont believe in Satan. I dont believe Muslims do either.
Muslims do. His name is Iblis, though he’s also called The Shaitan in the Qur’an. There are also lesser Shaitains that are devils who tempt people and djinn to sin. And the Qur’an elaborates on the apocryphal Christian belief that devils are fallen angels.
Also, in the Book of Job, God has a discussion with Satan as to how to test Job’s righteousness. So at least some Jewish scripture refers to Satan. But Satan is depicted more as a tester, subordinate to God, than an adversary to God. And dybbuks (devils) are seen as metaphorical embodiments of the human tendency to do wrong.
Multiple devils?
I guess what I mean to say is that Jews dont believe in Hell. The idea of the devil and hell was created by Christians to force obedience with fear.
When you start digging into it, it’s kind of interesting how much stuff gets retcon’ed into the OT by the xtians of various stripes. And then there are retcons of retcons, like what LDS does [1].
There was some xtian on the Denver Post comment boards that would get his back up (and try to get my comments deleted/me banned) over the use of the term “Abrahamic religion”. He kept denying there was any such notion. The guy provided much hilarity. It’s like they know all the problems inherent in claiming that the OT is what gives the character of Yeshua legitimacy because of prophecy, etc., and then turning around and rejecting the original religion itself, therefore, this guy’s answer was to deny the relationship even existed? LOL. This same guy denied that the Southern Strategy was a thing, too. This guy wanted all his own facts.
[1] Overall the movie was a mixed bag, but I was surprised to see the nature of Abrahamic religions rather frankly discussed in the movie “Heretic”. I wonder how many people might have walked out before any violence happened…
TIL. TYVM!
Well, these are who’s in charge of the country now. Hope this is what the electorate wanted.
