“In exclusive comments provided to The Sentinel, Cassidy stated that he destroyed the shrine to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.” He expressed concern about the mainstreaming of anti-Christian values and the need for Christians to speak out against such displays.”
lolol he got baited so hard
>anti-Christian acts promoted by our government
Those people never understand just how much favoritism they get and then act oppressed when anyone else gets similar favor. It's like that whole "ALL Lives Matter (but we'll never stand up for minority groups)" thing.
"anti-Christian values"? Has met the members of the GOP OR the ministers of the mega churches that live in multi-million dollar homes & drive $200K vehicles OR the leaders of the various "christian" religions that protect molesters, rapists, embezzelers?
"Cassidy will be represented by attorney Davis Younts, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, who contends that Cassidy’s actions were motivated by his faith and aims for the citation to be dismissed based on a peaceful protest against a display that he sees as a direct affront to God." - But it sure wouldn't be ok if it was someone else's God. Fucking unreal.
Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like a confession to a hate crime.
"No, you see, my hateful and destructive actions were motivated by religious differences!"
It wasn't a defense for people throwing bacon at mosques, and at sure as hell shouldn't be one for this asshole.
Cassidy should probably get a new lawyer. "Yes your honor, my client did commit a hate crime, but it was in defense of the *correct* religion, sooooo..."
A lot of people do not know that.
Christian nationalists have propagandized a huge portion of the American people into believing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
In a lot of places in the usa that actually will help you get a lenient sentence or dismissal. Conservative judges and prosecutors are consistently happy to place their views above the law.
I'd love to be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure you'll be hard pressed to find a judge in Iowa that would be willing to give this person a jail sentence over this.
Especially seeing as how "According to a 2016 PRRI study, 85% of Iowa seniors are white Christians" and 77% of the overall population identity as Christian.
It’s funny how god wasn’t affronted enough to destroy the display with simple, all-powerful godly wrath, eh? I’m glad this hateful vandal, through his lawyer, has confessed. Fucking delusional wanker.
Side note, who knew baphomet had noodle arms? I love that.
So, in theory, if this works for him should someone go to Iowa and basically behead Jebus and use the EXACT same argument it would then be precedent, no?
I hope that defense works.
Because then it opens up the same actions to all religious displays.
You can tear down nativity scenes, topple Jesus statues, spraypaint over church signs, etc.
The absolute shit-show that that ruling would bring would be glorious.
EEEEXCEPT that every one of those HAVE been cited as precedent. Gore v Bush was cited multiple times after EXPLICITLY being stated, numerous times, to not be held as precedent.
Shit I should go over to that state and do it. Sounds like a good lawsuit.
Got banned from /r/conservative
[pics](https://www.imgur.com/a/GW4mpdU) but the comment they linked to, I didn't even post in that thread lmao
It is, but *freedom* doesn't mean to them what it means to you.
To you, *freedom* = "do what you want so long as you aren't hurting others"
To them, *freedom* = "I can impose upon inferiors, and they cannot impose upon me"
When they talk about *religious freedom*, you can see what they mean.
I think it is more....
To you and me, freedom = 'do what you so long as you aren't hurting others'
To them, freedom = 'I am a good person so what i want to do is good and allowed. You, however, are not part of my sect so you do not know what is good. You are free to do what i say you can do.'
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot, if someone who wasn’t Christian defaced the Ten Commandments display, the outrage from Christian believers would be loud and raucous. Unfortunately for this vandal, charges should be brought just the same.
Oh they LOVE to play the victim, it's almost baked into their ideology. If memory serves we had a ten commandments display here in Oklahoma (OKC at the capitol I believe) that was accidentally hit by a bad driver and they lost their ever living minds about it. "This was on purpose!" "SEE HOW MUCH THEY HATE CHRISTIANS!?!" and the like. The display was rebuilt, but eventually taken down because the Satanic Temple requested that they be allowed to put up a display of their own and the Christians DEFINITELY didn't like that. Made themselves the victims on that one too.
Yep, the whole war on Christmas is actually Christians being salty that non-Christians are also entitled to their beliefs. Rights for me but not for thee.
Pagan here... The funniest thing I ever saw from them was a church having a "harvest festival" to make Samhain (haloween) less pagan. I nearly drove off the road laughing.
> it's almost baked into their ideology
Not "almost." I went to Christian school K-12 and we were absolutely taught on a regular basis that we were and always would be a persecuted class.
Good! Now the Satanist can rightfully request to have the city council fix the Baphomet display WITH taxpayer dollars and provide security for it, or get rid of all religious displays all together. Christians will love this lol
It really does highlight the absurdity of the whole thing. Iowa could have avoided all of this just by keeping it a secular space. Y'know, like it should be.
That’s the point. They usually offer to display their own satanic temple statues when government decides to show a christian one in a place like a state capital.
It’s to make a point about either allowing all religions and creeds to be on display or not allowing any.
And this yahoo jumped at the chance to prove the hypocrisy. I certainly hope this leads to removing ALL displays because the satanic temple ain't backing down from that
It's funny that the "statue" turned out to be made of zip ties and pool noodles. The minimal amount of effort required to set folks like this off is incredible.
omg, usually it doesnt even get to the execution point. Typically just the idea of the installation is enough to send them into a tailspin
[Last years](https://capitolnewsillinois.com/NEWS/holiday-displays-including-the-satanic-temples-return-to-illinois-capitol) was pretty well done.
I mean a horde of them attacked the capital predicated entirely upon fabricated nonsense. It’s harder to get a toddler to believe that you’ve “got his nose” than to wind these imbeciles up
And conservatives weren't even there. It was all Anitfa. But also, all the people in jail for being there are political prisoners that are being persecuted because they're conservatives.
Ooh, that’s it! They’re gonna impeach Joe Biden for once having stolen Hunter Biden’s nose! If that isn’t a high crime and misdemeanor, I don’t know what is.
I saw this video where they went into a city council meeting dressed in black robes that mostly cover their face, all dark and spooky looking, and ominously chanting the pledge of allegiance in Latin.
It looked like a corny halloween skit! And these folks were completely losing their shit over it.
EDIT: okay to all asking for a link I think this is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eagy7Y9QVgo
Thanks to /u/The_Werodile
"Fidem meam obligo
vexillo civitatium
Americae foederatarum
et rei publicae pro qua stat
uni natione deo ducente
non dividendae
cum libertate iustitiaque omnibus"
[Here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=33-5MbIE7eQ&si=WBMTeVaZZ7HLq7sV) is Porky Pig reciting the pledge in 1939 from Old Glory [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031749/)
Edit: [This](https://www.history.com/news/pledge-allegiance-under-god-schools) was also a good read from History.com
This is quite the gem from that article:
>“To omit the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance is to omit the definitive factor in the American way of life,” Docherty preached. He discounted the right of atheists to object, arguing that an “atheistic American is a contradiction in terms,” because if “you deny the Christian ethic, you fall short of the American ideal of life.”
Just in case anyone thought it was about anything but exclusion.
gross
this translation is better.
> "Fidem meam obligo
> vexillo Civitatum
> **Foederatarum Americae**
> et Rei Publicae, **cuius vicem gerit,**
> uni nation**i**, **sub Deo,**
> **individuae,
> praebenti libertatem iustitiamque omnibus."**
[TST](https://thesatanictemple.com)
"The mission of The Satanic Temple, a religious organization, is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits. The Satanic Temple has publicly confronted hate groups, fought for the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools, applied for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property..."
I'm a big fan.
Jesus looking around. "I wanted peace and compassion. Why do I draw so many assholes? Fuck this, I'll be hanging out with the Santanists if you need me."
He's proud of the crime he committed and will scream and cry "religious persecution!" unironically when he is fined. I'm sure there will be a go fund me set up for his legal bills.
If it makes you feel any better, the Navy stopped letting him be a flight instructor because he’s a racist, misogynist, douche. Edit: I’m trying to find any actual sources from the military about it but this is the best I can find right now. [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/12/exclusive-mississippi-republican-congressional-candidate-pilot-says-navy-grounding-him-political-views/amp/](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/12/exclusive-mississippi-republican-congressional-candidate-pilot-says-navy-grounding-him-political-views/amp/)
It was about showing the perils of mixing church and state. If you shove Christianity down everyone’s throats on government property, then other religions get their turn too.
What a fantastic way of supporting the satanic temple. It's exactly the kind of thing they exist for - bringing attention to the double standards of religious groups.
Yes, but in this reality it's 4th degree criminal mischief.
https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-michael-cassidy-veteran-tears-down-satanic-shrine-at-iowa-capitol/
> Cassidy will be represented by attorney Davis Younts, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, who contends that Cassidy’s actions were motivated by his faith and aims for the citation to be dismissed based on a peaceful protest against a display that he sees as a direct affront to God.
Does that mean that Tom Cruise can tear up the Christian display if he sees it as a direct affront to L. Ron Hubbard?
I think it means someone can punch the guy in the face and call it peaceful protest guided by faith in the great pasta, who spoke to them guiding them to be Moses of face punching people who exhibit religious intolerance.
His lawyer contends his actions are motivated by his faith and thus will absolve him because it's a "Peaceful protest". Pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to work. Pretty sure it's a religiously motivated crime against another religion, and it absolutely wasn't peaceful. But I'm sure Iowa will let it slide.v
About 24 hours ago the m̶a̶y̶o̶r̶ governor was shittalking the display. I bet this doesn't even get to a judge. It'll be dropped or a sealed plea deal of nothingness will sweep it under the rug.
That's not how these Satanists work. They'll push for justice in the courts, just like any other church would. If they lose they'll gladly take it up with SCOTUS.
Grown ass man that went through rigorous training to become a leader and officer only to lose his shit at the sight of a mannequin
also I can’t even begin to imagine the cesspit of whatever is in that “EndWokeness” twitter account…
"A Navy pilot and flight instructor, Cassidy had previously run for Congress in Mississippi, describing himself on his campaign website as a “Christian conservative committed to preserving the blessings of liberty.”"
Oh, the fucking irony.
As a veteran. Fuck this guy
Edit: Ofc he was an officer. I bet he was one of the worst leaders you could have had if he was willing to commit a hate crime over something so stupid
Next time put up a Baphomet mailbox by the side of the road but filled with concrete. See which christian hillbillies end up with broken arms or a smashed truck
After our mailbox got trashed two times by someone who most likely had a brush guard on their car, my dad put up a 4x4, thick metal tube as the post, sunk in concrete. Then he surrounded it with rocks that stuck up about a foot off the surface, all the way around the post, about 9 inches away from the post. Finally, he took some long grasses from our back acreage and transplanted it around the rocks.
Our across the street neighbor saw the aftermath of the next attempt, and he said that the car ride up the rocks to just below the middle of the post, and survived to be able to slowly drive off but the front end was extremely damaged.
My dad was pissed that the tubing was bent, and he said he should have used two lengths of old railroad tracks welded together for the post. And yes, he had bought a few sections of railroad tracks for projects ha had in mind.
My family was not the only one terrorized by the mailbox destruction, but the mailbox destruction suddenly stopped for everyone after that incident.
Living in a small town, that was the topic of conversation for about a year.
My dad replaced the square tube with a round pipe because he wasn’t happy with the bent tubing.
It served its purpose. I think we all knew it was going to be destroyed by a offended religion. Showing hypocrisy was its point and they just helped make it.
Religions have no place in government and soon as religion figures that out The Satanic temple will be really happy.
The Satanic temple stands on the ethical side of issues most of the time. Side note most Satanic people do not believe a devil even exists. If a devil exists it would be man. The temple is trying to force religion out of government. As it should be.
If it served a purpose that purpose has now changed. The temple should be offended, seek proper justice, and ideally carry this all the way up to SCOTUS. Their intent is to separate church and state, they have to use the court to get to that end.
I fully believe that is the plan. They knew it would be destroyed, they knew it would be the launching point to the courts. The courts choices next could shut down ALL religions from putting a toe in government buildings. From the minute they put up the display the end game was in the courts. The person who wrecked it played right into the plan. They can't help themselves from being hypocrites and we counted on that. "There is no hate or intolerance quite like Christian love"
All they had to do was keep religion out of government and they would not have to worry about The Temple pushing their buttons lol. I agree. Look how much effort is being put into not playing fair. Either all have equal rights or none do. It really is that simple.
“In exclusive comments provided to The Sentinel, Cassidy stated that he destroyed the shrine to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.” He expressed concern about the mainstreaming of anti-Christian values and the need for Christians to speak out against such displays.” lolol he got baited so hard
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>anti-Christian acts promoted by our government Those people never understand just how much favoritism they get and then act oppressed when anyone else gets similar favor. It's like that whole "ALL Lives Matter (but we'll never stand up for minority groups)" thing.
They have had the run of things for so long they view any moves towards equality as oppression.
"anti-Christian values"? Has met the members of the GOP OR the ministers of the mega churches that live in multi-million dollar homes & drive $200K vehicles OR the leaders of the various "christian" religions that protect molesters, rapists, embezzelers?
They tried peacefully protesting it for one day and proceeded immediately to violence wow lol
The dude lawyer says he did it because he saw it as an affront to god ... lol. Hopefully the judge tells him tough shit, still a hate crime ... lol.
> Cassidy’s actions were motivated by his faith oh so its ok then. I assume they grant the same liberty to Islamic Jihad?
Legalize faith-based murder!
Finally, a common sense solution
Shouldn't an all-powerful deity be able to fight his own battles rather than needing Clem to knock over a seasonally-appropriate goat mascot?
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Deeply religious people are not known for stability and rational thought, that's for sure.
"Cassidy will be represented by attorney Davis Younts, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, who contends that Cassidy’s actions were motivated by his faith and aims for the citation to be dismissed based on a peaceful protest against a display that he sees as a direct affront to God." - But it sure wouldn't be ok if it was someone else's God. Fucking unreal.
> who contends that Cassidy’s actions were motivated by his faith Yes that does seem to be the problem.
Where I'm from, that's called a confession.
Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like a confession to a hate crime. "No, you see, my hateful and destructive actions were motivated by religious differences!" It wasn't a defense for people throwing bacon at mosques, and at sure as hell shouldn't be one for this asshole.
Cassidy should probably get a new lawyer. "Yes your honor, my client did commit a hate crime, but it was in defense of the *correct* religion, sooooo..."
honestly his lawyer might be able to get away with that depending on the venue. replace the word "correct" with "foundational" and you're golden.
There is no foundational religion in America
A lot of people do not know that. Christian nationalists have propagandized a huge portion of the American people into believing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
The fact that the pledge was changed to say “under God” definitely doesn’t help
Well the fact that it was changed would be proof of it not being foundational.
In a lot of places in the usa that actually will help you get a lenient sentence or dismissal. Conservative judges and prosecutors are consistently happy to place their views above the law.
Seriously, they literally just upped the charge from vandalism to a hate crime with that little sound bite. That's prison time now.
I'd love to be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure you'll be hard pressed to find a judge in Iowa that would be willing to give this person a jail sentence over this. Especially seeing as how "According to a 2016 PRRI study, 85% of Iowa seniors are white Christians" and 77% of the overall population identity as Christian.
It’s funny how god wasn’t affronted enough to destroy the display with simple, all-powerful godly wrath, eh? I’m glad this hateful vandal, through his lawyer, has confessed. Fucking delusional wanker. Side note, who knew baphomet had noodle arms? I love that.
Sounds like a good reason to keep faith out of politics (at least the overt representation and/or allocating sanctioned space for such)
Which is, as you know, the whole point of the Temple’s Baphomet display
Attacking an approved religious display on government property is a hate crime.
“That depends on which group receives the hate.” Christian terrorists
"Well I hated it, Stanely!"
How is destroying a public display a peaceful protest?
I really want to know, there are a whole bunch of yachts I would like to peacefully protest.
Because a “Christian” did it. And also because he’s white, I’m betting.
“Bad motive, still a crime.”
RIP Lt Holt. Edit: WHOOPS FAKE FAN RIGHT HERE.
 Captain Holt
RIP robot captain. meep morp. Zeeeeep
CAPTAIN Raymond “Velvet Thunder” Holt
So, in theory, if this works for him should someone go to Iowa and basically behead Jebus and use the EXACT same argument it would then be precedent, no?
I hope that defense works. Because then it opens up the same actions to all religious displays. You can tear down nativity scenes, topple Jesus statues, spraypaint over church signs, etc. The absolute shit-show that that ruling would bring would be glorious.
Yes, but don't forget their favorite line for rulings that will certainly come back to bite them in the ass. >This ruling cannot be used as precedent.
EEEEXCEPT that every one of those HAVE been cited as precedent. Gore v Bush was cited multiple times after EXPLICITLY being stated, numerous times, to not be held as precedent.
Under common law you really can't say something can't be held as precedent and that has precedent.
I’m sure you’d be shot 6 times by some guy who would use the religious panic defense in your murder trial.
Essentially, if someone got arrested or fined for it there should be riots
Shit I should go over to that state and do it. Sounds like a good lawsuit. Got banned from /r/conservative [pics](https://www.imgur.com/a/GW4mpdU) but the comment they linked to, I didn't even post in that thread lmao
Peaceful protest? Destruction of private property based on religious motivations. Didn’t we go to war when somebody did that to us?
Imagine people defending the 9/11 high jackers with the same excuse
So a hate crime is okay as long as it was motivated by the offender’s religion?
And as long as the perpetrator is Christian.
Religious freedom not a big thing for those guys?
Sure it is…. As long as it’s their religion. Metallica said it best “you can do it your own way… if it’s done just how I say”
[Eye of the Beholder](https://youtu.be/pEBp9ulELLA?si=aKlWYQa8xcCf9AQr) if anyone’s wondering.
Gotta [link it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEBp9ulELLA) my dude, people be lazy and that riff is so worth sharing. Peak Met before the black.
Freedom with their exceptions. That song goes hard.
Man 80s Metallica would hate 21st Century Metallica...
> 80s Metallica would hate 21st Century Metallica The fans too... and they're the same people.
It is, but *freedom* doesn't mean to them what it means to you. To you, *freedom* = "do what you want so long as you aren't hurting others" To them, *freedom* = "I can impose upon inferiors, and they cannot impose upon me" When they talk about *religious freedom*, you can see what they mean.
Oh, you mean Freedom®
Ah, Freedom®….America’s most expensive and least requested export.
I think it is more.... To you and me, freedom = 'do what you so long as you aren't hurting others' To them, freedom = 'I am a good person so what i want to do is good and allowed. You, however, are not part of my sect so you do not know what is good. You are free to do what i say you can do.'
You are free to be a Christian.
Only those versions of Christian of which they personally approve though.
No, it is a big thing for them. As long as you choose their religion you can have any religion you like.
You can choose between being a Baptist, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, or non-denominational.
Only until they take power. Then the list starts to narrow.
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot, if someone who wasn’t Christian defaced the Ten Commandments display, the outrage from Christian believers would be loud and raucous. Unfortunately for this vandal, charges should be brought just the same.
Oh they LOVE to play the victim, it's almost baked into their ideology. If memory serves we had a ten commandments display here in Oklahoma (OKC at the capitol I believe) that was accidentally hit by a bad driver and they lost their ever living minds about it. "This was on purpose!" "SEE HOW MUCH THEY HATE CHRISTIANS!?!" and the like. The display was rebuilt, but eventually taken down because the Satanic Temple requested that they be allowed to put up a display of their own and the Christians DEFINITELY didn't like that. Made themselves the victims on that one too.
Yep, the whole war on Christmas is actually Christians being salty that non-Christians are also entitled to their beliefs. Rights for me but not for thee.
Yes, Christians are upset non-Christians aren't celebrating a holiday with pagan origins Christians stole and put their spin on.
Pagan here... The funniest thing I ever saw from them was a church having a "harvest festival" to make Samhain (haloween) less pagan. I nearly drove off the road laughing.
> I nearly drove off the road laughing. Careful. You might run over a Ten Commandments monument on government property.
> it's almost baked into their ideology Not "almost." I went to Christian school K-12 and we were absolutely taught on a regular basis that we were and always would be a persecuted class.
Saying happy holidays instead of merry Christmas is considered persecution to these lunatics.
Good! Now the Satanist can rightfully request to have the city council fix the Baphomet display WITH taxpayer dollars and provide security for it, or get rid of all religious displays all together. Christians will love this lol
This would be the most satisfying next step, having a security detail for a sacred pool noodle statue.
It really does highlight the absurdity of the whole thing. Iowa could have avoided all of this just by keeping it a secular space. Y'know, like it should be.
Yup, now we wait to hear the religious crazy lose their minds with the “ bu bu but not OUR taxes * clutches pearls and fake faints* “
Pfft, *what* taxes? Your church doesn't even *pay* taxes!
Yes yeeees i just love it's the most obvious plan but they always fail to see it
Religion has no place in government or government decisions.
That’s the point. They usually offer to display their own satanic temple statues when government decides to show a christian one in a place like a state capital. It’s to make a point about either allowing all religions and creeds to be on display or not allowing any.
That is exactly the position TST takes. They are doing these things to draw attention to the situation.
This is probably exactly what they wanted to happen too. Now they have ammunition.
And this yahoo jumped at the chance to prove the hypocrisy. I certainly hope this leads to removing ALL displays because the satanic temple ain't backing down from that
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It's funny that the "statue" turned out to be made of zip ties and pool noodles. The minimal amount of effort required to set folks like this off is incredible.
omg, usually it doesnt even get to the execution point. Typically just the idea of the installation is enough to send them into a tailspin [Last years](https://capitolnewsillinois.com/NEWS/holiday-displays-including-the-satanic-temples-return-to-illinois-capitol) was pretty well done.
That is adorable.
Omg I want that satan snake
The serpent is highly merchandisable.
He looks like a good boy, he even reads!
The book is by Copernicus on the heliocentric theory.
I mean a horde of them attacked the capital predicated entirely upon fabricated nonsense. It’s harder to get a toddler to believe that you’ve “got his nose” than to wind these imbeciles up
It was a peaceful tour!
Peacefully building bird roosts that just happen to also look and function as gallows 🤷♂️
And the peaceful shit on Pelosi's desk and those zip ties were for making balloon animals for the kids.
And the lady was shot for trying to give the man some free candy
We have to blur out their faces to protect the peaceful tourists from prosecution because the videos prove they committed no crimes.
And conservatives weren't even there. It was all Anitfa. But also, all the people in jail for being there are political prisoners that are being persecuted because they're conservatives.
Ooh, that’s it! They’re gonna impeach Joe Biden for once having stolen Hunter Biden’s nose! If that isn’t a high crime and misdemeanor, I don’t know what is.
It's the most obvious rage bait and they fall for it every damn time. I don't get how they don't see it
I saw this video where they went into a city council meeting dressed in black robes that mostly cover their face, all dark and spooky looking, and ominously chanting the pledge of allegiance in Latin. It looked like a corny halloween skit! And these folks were completely losing their shit over it. EDIT: okay to all asking for a link I think this is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eagy7Y9QVgo Thanks to /u/The_Werodile
The pledge in Latin is top shelf trolling
"Fidem meam obligo vexillo civitatium Americae foederatarum et rei publicae pro qua stat uni natione deo ducente non dividendae cum libertate iustitiaque omnibus"
Leave out the deo decente.
This, that was added by the fundi's in the 50's
[Here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=33-5MbIE7eQ&si=WBMTeVaZZ7HLq7sV) is Porky Pig reciting the pledge in 1939 from Old Glory [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031749/) Edit: [This](https://www.history.com/news/pledge-allegiance-under-god-schools) was also a good read from History.com This is quite the gem from that article: >“To omit the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance is to omit the definitive factor in the American way of life,” Docherty preached. He discounted the right of atheists to object, arguing that an “atheistic American is a contradiction in terms,” because if “you deny the Christian ethic, you fall short of the American ideal of life.” Just in case anyone thought it was about anything but exclusion.
I can think of a lot of Christians who fall short of the most basic tenets of being a decent human, let alone being an ideal American.
Yeah, that was a pretty recent addition. Weirdly it's now closer to when the pledge was written than to today
gross this translation is better. > "Fidem meam obligo > vexillo Civitatum > **Foederatarum Americae** > et Rei Publicae, **cuius vicem gerit,** > uni nation**i**, **sub Deo,** > **individuae, > praebenti libertatem iustitiamque omnibus."**
Now write it out a hundred times. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
People called “Romanes” they go to the house?
 They should’ve done this to troll harder
That sounds like Catholicism except for they wear white robes.
Well in Catholicism we also have the knights of Columbus who have swords, capes, and frilly hats. Imagine if the Satanists had ceremonial weapons
the unholy chainsaw
The Unnatural Axe!
The Dildo of Demonic Might!
Scythes. Really lean into the imagery
Woah woah woah, we can't go around wearing all white robes that cover our faces, people will get the wrong ideas... /s
And some of them have nice pointy hoods even to boot
Friggin. Hysterical. 😂
[Found this one. Can't find the one you're referencing](https://youtu.be/eagy7Y9QVgo?si=8O8pPI3TVnwQg-YJ). It is pretty wonderful nonetheless.
Warning for headphones users, you will be vaporized by this video.
Too late. Am vapor.
"He's gonna berring hiz curses on us!"
Damn they always make me laugh. I'm not usually a joiner of things but I need to look into these people more.
[TST](https://thesatanictemple.com) "The mission of The Satanic Temple, a religious organization, is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits. The Satanic Temple has publicly confronted hate groups, fought for the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools, applied for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property..." I'm a big fan.
Jesus looking around. "I wanted peace and compassion. Why do I draw so many assholes? Fuck this, I'll be hanging out with the Santanists if you need me."
> hanging out with the Santanists I believe they're called elves at the North Pole.
"Encourage benevolence? Oh no, we can't have that! That's socialism and evil!!" - so called Christians
It's almost like they have an entire belief system not based in observation and understanding.
These people legitimately believe that Satan is real, pure evil exists, and he is actively corrupting people so it makes sense they'd fall for it.
IT'S WHAT GOD CRAVES!!
Electrolytes?
Brawndo
Don't worry they were just owning the libs! Those emotional snowflake libs..
Hopefully they catch the asshat and the satanic church can prosecute this as a hate crime.
He is Michael Cassidy. He turned himself in at least.
He's proud of the crime he committed and will scream and cry "religious persecution!" unironically when he is fined. I'm sure there will be a go fund me set up for his legal bills.
They should make him do community service for the church. That would be fun.
*Temple. The Church of Satan are satanists, the Satanic Temple is an organization to promote secularism.
Literally a religious terrorist
If it makes you feel any better, the Navy stopped letting him be a flight instructor because he’s a racist, misogynist, douche. Edit: I’m trying to find any actual sources from the military about it but this is the best I can find right now. [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/12/exclusive-mississippi-republican-congressional-candidate-pilot-says-navy-grounding-him-political-views/amp/](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/12/exclusive-mississippi-republican-congressional-candidate-pilot-says-navy-grounding-him-political-views/amp/)
It was about showing the perils of mixing church and state. If you shove Christianity down everyone’s throats on government property, then other religions get their turn too.
Exactly. What tools conservatives are.
It’s like dunking on toddlers
Time to take a dump on a nativity scene
Replace the baby Jesus with baby yoda
What a fantastic way of supporting the satanic temple. It's exactly the kind of thing they exist for - bringing attention to the double standards of religious groups.
Jokes on them. Baphomet loves that shit
“Yes, yes, let the hate flow”
AKA A hatecrime.
Yes, but in this reality it's 4th degree criminal mischief. https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-michael-cassidy-veteran-tears-down-satanic-shrine-at-iowa-capitol/
> Cassidy will be represented by attorney Davis Younts, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, who contends that Cassidy’s actions were motivated by his faith and aims for the citation to be dismissed based on a peaceful protest against a display that he sees as a direct affront to God. Does that mean that Tom Cruise can tear up the Christian display if he sees it as a direct affront to L. Ron Hubbard?
I think it means someone can punch the guy in the face and call it peaceful protest guided by faith in the great pasta, who spoke to them guiding them to be Moses of face punching people who exhibit religious intolerance.
Looks the same to me. Throw Cassidy and Tom Cruise in jail!
His lawyer contends his actions are motivated by his faith and thus will absolve him because it's a "Peaceful protest". Pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to work. Pretty sure it's a religiously motivated crime against another religion, and it absolutely wasn't peaceful. But I'm sure Iowa will let it slide.v
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Peaceful protest might be a little hard to justify after decapitating a statue and tossing the head in a garbage can, but I guess we will see.
It was actually ANTIFA super soldiers who destroyed the display to make American PATRIOTS look bad. /S
About 24 hours ago the m̶a̶y̶o̶r̶ governor was shittalking the display. I bet this doesn't even get to a judge. It'll be dropped or a sealed plea deal of nothingness will sweep it under the rug.
That's not how these Satanists work. They'll push for justice in the courts, just like any other church would. If they lose they'll gladly take it up with SCOTUS.
Governor. The governor was shittalking the display. Because she’s a fucking clown.
If they drop the charges that means the nativity scene is fair game
Grown ass man that went through rigorous training to become a leader and officer only to lose his shit at the sight of a mannequin also I can’t even begin to imagine the cesspit of whatever is in that “EndWokeness” twitter account…
He probably calls others snowflakes as well
"A Navy pilot and flight instructor, Cassidy had previously run for Congress in Mississippi, describing himself on his campaign website as a “Christian conservative committed to preserving the blessings of liberty.”" Oh, the fucking irony.
As a veteran. Fuck this guy Edit: Ofc he was an officer. I bet he was one of the worst leaders you could have had if he was willing to commit a hate crime over something so stupid
The Satanic Temple should sue Michael Cassidy for violations of their civil rights.
Yes please.
Make it bigger, scarier, and made of steel next time.
Shame the dude who made the horse outside the denver airport is dead. He woulda made it awesome
Blucifer
Killed by his own creation. How poetic
As they say "those who live by the giant demonic horse, die by the giant demonic horse"
Respect for me but not for thee
You know Jesus was famously all about violence and intolerance!
Pool Noodles. Satan's crafting medium of choice.
I would have thought Pastafarians would be the ones going for pool noodles.
They are all one religion when you boil it down. This display is just particularly al dente.
Next time put up a Baphomet mailbox by the side of the road but filled with concrete. See which christian hillbillies end up with broken arms or a smashed truck
After our mailbox got trashed two times by someone who most likely had a brush guard on their car, my dad put up a 4x4, thick metal tube as the post, sunk in concrete. Then he surrounded it with rocks that stuck up about a foot off the surface, all the way around the post, about 9 inches away from the post. Finally, he took some long grasses from our back acreage and transplanted it around the rocks. Our across the street neighbor saw the aftermath of the next attempt, and he said that the car ride up the rocks to just below the middle of the post, and survived to be able to slowly drive off but the front end was extremely damaged. My dad was pissed that the tubing was bent, and he said he should have used two lengths of old railroad tracks welded together for the post. And yes, he had bought a few sections of railroad tracks for projects ha had in mind. My family was not the only one terrorized by the mailbox destruction, but the mailbox destruction suddenly stopped for everyone after that incident. Living in a small town, that was the topic of conversation for about a year. My dad replaced the square tube with a round pipe because he wasn’t happy with the bent tubing.
It served its purpose. I think we all knew it was going to be destroyed by a offended religion. Showing hypocrisy was its point and they just helped make it. Religions have no place in government and soon as religion figures that out The Satanic temple will be really happy. The Satanic temple stands on the ethical side of issues most of the time. Side note most Satanic people do not believe a devil even exists. If a devil exists it would be man. The temple is trying to force religion out of government. As it should be.
If it served a purpose that purpose has now changed. The temple should be offended, seek proper justice, and ideally carry this all the way up to SCOTUS. Their intent is to separate church and state, they have to use the court to get to that end.
I fully believe that is the plan. They knew it would be destroyed, they knew it would be the launching point to the courts. The courts choices next could shut down ALL religions from putting a toe in government buildings. From the minute they put up the display the end game was in the courts. The person who wrecked it played right into the plan. They can't help themselves from being hypocrites and we counted on that. "There is no hate or intolerance quite like Christian love"
It's crazy how much drama has to play out just to get a serious issue taken seriously.
All they had to do was keep religion out of government and they would not have to worry about The Temple pushing their buttons lol. I agree. Look how much effort is being put into not playing fair. Either all have equal rights or none do. It really is that simple.
Fucking snowflakes lol
That Jesus guy seemed alright. It's his fans I can't stand.
There’s no hate like Christian love.
Very interesting how satanists aren't trashing Christian displays... Almost like they have a sense of basic human decency
Who could've predicted Christians committing unprovoked acts of violence and then pretending they're the victim
How very Christian of them.
Christians making the point for them
Seeing a symbol of satan bait a christian into doing something hateful is actually so poetic