cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52897112
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.”
I can’t approve of worshiping a devil/demon but I do approve of taking the opportunity to throw the hypocrisy back into their faces.
The Satanic Temple doesn’t worship Satan either really. It’s Pastafarianism, except more metal. It’s a parody religion designed to push back on Christianity, going through the motions of worshiping Satan entirely to trigger Christians. You’ll note in the invocation that she said to “Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.” The existence of Satan is not demonstrably true and the Satanic Temple doesn’t claim that it is. They’re metalhead non-theists going through the motions of invoking Satan in order to get Christians to freak out so they can make their points and make the Christians look dumb. And when I say Christians, I mean these Christofascists / Christian Nationalists we’re seeing trying to take over government, society and culture. They don’t target peaceful Christians going about their own business. They target Christians in government (or other positions of authority) being authoritarian assholes.
I am a reasonable man and am certain that Christian’s holy book is an absolute heap of disgusting, slavery condoning, male infant genital mutilation demanding, repellent, demented, vicious dark age mumbo jumbo. Christians should be told quite clearly that our citizens have the legal right to criticise, lampoon, ridicule and mock god and Jesus to their heart’s content, in any way that they wish: that Christians have no special claim to protection from the rough and tumble of post-Enlightenment intellectual, political and social life. If they cannot live in a society in which this is the case, they should go somewhere else; they are, after all, spoilt for choice at least in theory.
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least in theory.
yup
Actual Christians would probably be amused by it, but those are a rare breed.
There’s no such thing as devil’s and demons
Plenty of them walk among us. They’re just shitty people, not supernatural beings.
You are using the word metaphorically and that is not what the previous person was saying
Those we can just call narcissistic assholes and cunts. No need yo call them something cool or imaginary supernatural
This is more than likely by the The Satanic Temple or TST. They don’t really worship them.
Did you even read the prayer that is quoted in the article? It’s pretty great, even from a secular standpoint.
So is this.
You dont approve of worshipping imaginary super evil beings?
Just put of curiosity; you do approve of worshipping imaginary less evil beings like that “god” that christians are so up about? Because that imaginary fucker is really just as evil. And alsoimaginary and made up, also an important point to make…
“The God of the bible is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, slavery condoning, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully”. Richard Dawkins