If AC/DC play in hell with the Flaming Lips as their support, I’ll want to go there.
I can’t say I don’t feel a little sadness for you, going though life in fear like that.
Satan, as a character, wasn’t as bad as god in many ways. He gave us knowledge and didn’t kill as many people, right? I mean, it’s one of those stories where you’d like to hear the other side of.
Well, fear is a real thing.
I’ve been nearly dead many times. The last 6 weeks probably 4 times. Being that close to buying the farm does things to your mental equilibrium.
I can’t help it.
Y’all wanna play with it for shock value or funzies, I’m totally ok with it.
They want statues on the statehouse lawn at Christmas that’s their right, I guess.
I have a visceral fear of a Satanic being and probably a God of any kind.
I’ll be dead so I guess it won’t really matter.
Canonically, Satan appears in the Torah all of once- in the Book Of Job. There is debate over whether it’s a proper noun or could just be replaced with ‘prosecuting angel’. What side? What story?
Winston Churchill?
Stranger
That is in no way what they want.
Well, ok. Seems to me like they did it in Arkansas. A couple years ago.
I don’t know what exact group it was but they insisted, brought a lawsuit, and as it’s their right they won the lawsuit and put something up.
ETA-
I looked on Google, that may not be true. It’s on private property or something.
What they really want is no reigious statues or religious ornaments on government property. They put up Baphomet statues to make a point.
Got it now. Thanks.
I really don’t care what they put up. Anyone.
I don’t go around looking and judging statues to decide how I feel about something.
Really? I see the radiant crossses that get attached to city street lights by city workers with city dollars every Christmas and I feel pissed off. I’ve complained about this often on this very board.
ETA And I’d be MUCH happier if our money said In Cthulhu We Trust.
I think an ornament isn’t gonna change my life in any way. Or words on a green piece of paper that is clearly going out of style a little more each day.
I ain’t got no time or the convenience to worry about crap like that.
The work they do to highlight what the first amendment actually means is incredibly important, and the importance of that work explicitly relies on them having shitty branding.
If everybody on the religious right was like, “oh sure, throw up a pentagram or whatever, those satanists are just joshing around,” that would be a branding problem.
Well, you’ll be happy to know some of us still care about the separation of church and state and the Establishment Clause.
Nice try, but he will not cut you any slack when he rises. We’re all doomed!
It’s all well and good to have rights. Until they compromise mine.
I’d like the right to have a restful and peaceful death. I’d like a friendly place to go. My right to this is just as important as the separation of church and state.
I think all the amendments are important.
But no one’s rights should dismiss mine.
A cross lit up on a light pole isn’t religious. That’s to get people in the mood to spend that green piece of paper with “in god we trust” printed on it.
I ain’t gonna get worked up about it. The money and Christmas decorations have been around quite a few years. The Constitution still stands. Now.
I don’t think these things are what’s gonna bring it down. At. All.
We have larger issues to fix. Words on money isn’t that big.
How in the fuck is it NOT religious?
To be fair, he will be eaten first.
You make a good point.
It’s a silly ornament. In my town it’s snowflakes. It doesn’t snow here often. I don’t worship the God of Ice and Snow when I see them.
I laugh cause they’re so old half don’t light up anymore. It’s just a ornament.
Just like an ornament on a Christmas tree. The god of glass balls doesn’t move me to pray to it.
It’s a violation of the first ammendment and an honoring of Jesus Christ who died for our sins is what it is!!!