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20 Jan 2014, 9:18 pm

Evangelicals are strange :lol:


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20 Jan 2014, 9:25 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
A monument to the Ten Commandments that sits outside the Oklahoma statehouse may soon have some unholy company.

Satan worshipers are seeking to build their own monument at the state Capitol, and Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the Satanic Temple, said he's "optimistic" it will be approved.

"I really don't see a grounds which they can reject this," he told ABC News.


http://news.yahoo.com/satanic-temple-mo ... itics.html



Good idea or bad? Would you want this at your capitol? Is it just plain freedom of religion? Should the ten commandments be allowed while one that honors a pagan deity be denied or did the writers of the constitution really mean the freedom to practice Christianity, intending it to be the state religion?

Like, for instance, what if I believed in the existence of faeries and wanted to commission a statue honoring them, should I be allowed? What about Buddhists wanting to place a statue of Buddha? There are a lot of Asians in Oklahoma, and Catholic Mexicans. Should they be allowed to erect a statue of Mary on the capitol. Why not show the diversity of Oklahoma?

Tell me what you all think about this.


I think it is a great idea. We shall soon see how seriously the government of Oklahoma takes the First Amendment.

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20 Jan 2014, 9:32 pm

Misslizard wrote:
Evangelicals are strange :lol:

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20 Jan 2014, 9:32 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
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Broken Arrow Representative Mike Ritze's family funded the monument after the Ritze pushed a bill in 2009.


http://www.news9.com/story/20116587/mis ... te-capitol


Talk about the government overstepping its boundaries. However, keep in mind, there are plenty of strange religious symbols at the nation's capitol in Washington DC namely involving Free Masons.
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Downtown DC is just one enormous Satanic pentagram (according to some) formed by the street pattern laid out by Lefant.

So...I guess that justifies putting up Christian symbolism all over DC for equal time... if not also... to CLEANSE the place!



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20 Jan 2014, 9:37 pm

Don't forget the pentagon in the Eastern Star Pentagram.We don't want the men to know who's really in charge. :wink:


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20 Jan 2014, 10:00 pm

That's probably why so many people here have a pathological fear of Washington :s