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.”
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“Reverse the curse” LOL! LOL! LOL! What a frightened little snowflake.
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.
TST doing “the lord’s” work again. Lol
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
Either we go drastic or we go down with them. It might not be easy, but it’s simple.
Doing God’s work, well played
Well prayed…
I can’t approve of worshiping a devil/demon but I do approve of taking the opportunity to throw the hypocrisy back into their faces.
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 being authoritarian assholes.
yup
Actual Christians would probably be amused by it, but those are a rare breed.
There’s no such thing as devil’s and demons
Plenty of them walk among us. They’re just shitty people, not supernatural beings.
You are using the word metaphorically and that is not what the previous person was saying
This is more than likely by the The Satanic Temple or TST. They don’t really worship them.
