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.
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.
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.
Carpenter got nails in his hands. Seems a bit careless of him.
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…
Mars awaits!
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…?
What do you call people who believe in satan?
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Christians.
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Well, yes, technically any Abrahamic religion.
Well, these are who’s in charge of the country now. Hope this is what the electorate wanted.
They’d better get used to it, the filthy heretical hypocrites are all going to be spending eternity in Satan’s close proximity.
