The Devil in Detroit

                                                        +AJPM+


THE MILLENNIAL CATHOLIC:

I always suspected Detroit was going to hell in a hand basket, but now we have documentation:

How a homeless Satanic monument wound up in Detroit 

Baphomet is part man and part animal. The goat-headed Satanic symbol is often shown with one arm pointing upward and the other pointing down. He is even sometimes depicted with female breasts. The icon means different things to different people, but for the Satanic Temple, Baphomet's dualities make him the perfect symbol of reconciling opposites and plurality. That's why the group (who describe themselves as "non-theistic Satanists") decided to build a one-ton, 9-foot-tall bronze monument of Baphomet with the hopes of getting it installed next to the Ten Commandments monument on Oklahoma's state Capitol.

Before then, a stop in Detroit, where the Satanic Temple has established its first national chapterhouse, to officially unveil the monument. And that's when all hell broke loose. In Detroit, the group has faced violent threats, which caused them to relocate the event to a secret, private location. And possibly in an effort avoid any further conflict, Oklahoma's Supreme Court recently declared the Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional — which means for now, Baphomet is looking for a new home.

(For the full article, click here) 

The article would go on to say the group is open about their beliefs and anyone can access it.

On a whim, I actually went to the website…and found some of the most juvenile, self-contradictory statements I've ever come across, especially the tenants section. 

Except earlier, they said people should act with compassion in accord with reason, but later on said the pursuit of justice should prevail over laws and institutions.  

I'm not going to lie: I had a hard time figuring out which ones were the dumbest, so instead I went with the two that made the least sense in light of the others. 

PEOPLE ARE FALLIBLE. IF WE MAKE A MISTAKE, WE SHOULD DO OUR BEST TO RECTIFY IT AND RESOLVE ANY HARM THAT MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED.

What reason? The reason you feel like listening to? What if your pursuit doesn't make sense in light of reason? Which rule takes precedence? Are they saying pursuing justice is more important than following the law? Then why not just say that? Wouldn't that just devolve laws into just what you feel like listening to? How would you know the difference between a just and unjust law? 

EVERY TENET IS A GUIDING PRINCIPLE DESIGNED TO INSPIRE NOBILITY IN ACTION AND THOUGHT. THE SPIRIT OF COMPASSION, WISDOM, AND JUSTICE SHOULD ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER THE WRITTEN OR SPOKEN WORD.

If they're just principles, why even bother following them? What are the consequences? What about that pursuit of justice thing? What's going to win out: the pursuit of justice of the spirit of compassion? Won't one be sacrificed at the other's expense? If not, what guarantee do we have on that? If the written word should never prevail over the spirit of justice, why even have written tenants? 

But let's say for argument's sake the tenants made perfect sense. Even if they did, why should we still have no tolerance for this?

It all comes down to three questions:
1. Do they really understand what the statue stands for?
2. If they don't know, are they just doing this to protest something?
3. If they do know, do they have any idea how sickening that sounds to people? 

Considering for a moment they just admitted they are non-theistic, that means they don't believe, which means they're atheists.

And atheists are idiots.