A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.

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Excellent.

I strongly suspect this guy has a room temperature iq (celcius) and will probably be wondering why he was charged with destroying a baphomet statue rather than one of satan (he spells it Santa though when he gets crayons).

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Red, white, and black! Check. Pagan origins? Check. Older than Josh? Check. Keeps a list of good & naughty people based on someone else’s notion of such? Check. Makes kiddos curious about the truth and adults wary? Checkity check. Same guy, it seems. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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The fires of hell or the Arctic Wastes. I mean is there really a difference. After all there’s such a thing as frostbite which is basically burning cold.

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Dante’s interpretation had ol’ Scratch encased in ice, though. There’s precedent.

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Haters gonna hate it doesn’t matter which side they are…

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TST generally follows the rules, meanwhile in the USA christofascism has been on the rise.

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We’ve long since come full circle (well, I guess half circle). The satanists embody virtue and the christians evil.

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That’s always been the case. The only people who think that Satanists actually worship satan are idiots.

Every single Satanist i’ve ever met, and I haven’t met a lot I admit, are just nice people who don’t understand why the church is so powerful considering all the crimes they’ve covered up over the years. Especially considering that practically every single “Christian” democracy claims to separate church and state.

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Funny the satanists I knew were all about manipulation of everyone they encountered. Even gave me a book on it.

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idiots

You aren’t going to find a bunch of geniuses praying to a dead jew on a stick to come back from the dead.

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Christians are immune to irony.

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Unlike their zombie boy, very irony

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There might be a certain stigmata about what you said, but I think you nailed it.

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Some would say my statement might… strike a nerve (or two).

Ba dum tiss

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3 points

He wasn’t a zombie he was a lynch. An immortal soul bound to a mortal body.

I challenge any Christian to come up with a better description.

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Lich.

A lynch would be something a bit… different. A lot of wingnuts would be into that, too, mind you.

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  • Reads “thou shalt not kill” commandment.

  • Declares holy war on indigenous people.

This goes beyond irony blindness, this is straight cherry picking for convenience.

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They simply adjust their definition of “people” as needed.

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The commandment is actually “you shall not murder”. There’s a distinct difference between killing and murdering; murder can be categorised as only a small subset of killing. I could be misled but I’m under the impression that to old testament era Jews killing a non-jew was never murder.

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No killing! Not without permission from your governors.

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What a loving religion.

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That kind of makes it worse…

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Low IQ be like that sometimes.

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They’re not immune to it. They’re just irony deficient. Their body can’t process it. It goes into violent spasms.

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…If the government is going to permit one ideology to put up religious iconography on their grounds, then they must include the other religions stop and take those down.

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FWIW, I’m reading this thread in a Firefox browser on a PC and only the bolding works for me. I see the double-tildes at either end of what should be struck out text.

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…If the government is going to permit one ideology to put up religious iconography on their grounds, then they must…

…stop and take those down.


Out of curiosity, does the earlier post’s strikethrough for the part I’ve now removed show up for you? I’ve heard that some apps don’t handle all of the formatting options particularly well.

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For reference, this is what it looks like for me (desktop firefox):

So, looks fine to me formatting-wise. I read the intent to be that (1) they’re quoting you, and (2) they’re conveying a government building should not be a place for religious iconography, at all.

I’d be happier if there would be no religious presence in government buildings too, but alas, the SC has ruled for what we’ve got. So I suppose it’s nice at least that we’ve got TST to help ensure our governments aren’t playing favorites

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At the moment, SCOTUS treats no belief as a separate religion. In our life times we are going to have to aim for the more achievable “all religions matter”.

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SCOTUS gets something wrong, what a shocker. You set your goals for how much progress you want to see in a lifetime and I’ll set mine.

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I’d put it on par with trespassing into a church and breaking the crosses. It’s destruction of other people’s shit because of the religion it represents but with no additional implications

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Christians demand that acceptance while refusing it (literally to the point of violence) to anyone else.

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The story of the last 2000 years.

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