Satanists Move Forward With Plans to Display Demon Monument Next to Ten Commandments
by Howard Crane
The
day has finally come where the Dadaist religious trolls, called Satanic
Temple, has unveiled artist renderings for a 7-foot tall, goat-headed
deity that they plan to display at the Oklahoma state Capitol.
If you don’t recall, the New York-based Satanic Temple questioned Oklahoma’s Religious Display
legislation that was signed into law in 2009. The group moved forward
to file papers to display a memorial next to the state’s display of the
10 Commandments.
The
Satanic Temple showed more signs of democracy than our current Congress
and allowed the public to exhibit their input on the group’s design if
it was accepted. The statue features a horned demon sitting in a
pentagram-adorned throne with children next to it.
Lucien
Greaves, the Temple spokesman says it's moving forward with plans to
have its monument approved, despite the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation
Commission's decision to place a moratorium on new requests.
According to TPM, the commission says it's waiting until a lawsuit over the Ten Commandments has been settled.
Of
course, if the lawmakers reject the offer, that will only confirm that
this religious legislation was never meant to be available to all
religions, which you know…isn’t very constitutional. The devil is truly
in the details with this one.
But hey, as long as we’re displaying statues of groups who still believe in fairy tales, my vote is for the Pastafarians.
Imagine a statue of Touched by His Noodly Appendage, by Arne Niklas Jansson: a parody of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam
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