'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
3 days ago by technocrit to c/atheism
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.”
When Abrahamic religion controls government, it's madness. And here we are.
As the 80s Satanic Panic showed us, we're not above losing our collective minds and putting people in prison... and if they ever control the USA again, they will kill you. They're instructed to by God. It would be wrong not to kill you.
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.
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Actual Christians would probably be amused by it, but those are a rare breed.
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.
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...
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They've lost nothing. They get to devote government time to religion. They've won so hard that I can't even begin to understand how to get society back on track without drastic measures
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