New Hampshire capital includes Satanic symbol as part of their holiday display ‘to avoid litigation’

[XponentialChaos]

You've got this strange idea that I'm speaking for you here. Or anywhere. I'm merely stating an observation.

Calm down.

You have a bad habit of misinterpreting me. Constantly.

You attempt to infer things and it’s always wildly inaccurate, as you just showed.

 

[TemplarKormac]

mud-made man

If I recall, evolution starts out with that very same premise. I do agree with evolution, but I also believe in creation. They go hand in hand.

 

[TemplarKormac]

You have a bad habit of misinterpreting me. Constantly.

You attempt to infer things and it’s always wildly inaccurate, as you just showed.

I merely stated an observation and it sent you off on one of your tangents.

Simmer down.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I keep telling you to stop trying to speak for me.

For the record, if I wanted to speak for you, I'd go off telling people all sorts of wild things you didn't say, which I clearly haven't. I clearly quote your posts and respond to them, I don't just hop into a thread and claim you said something you didn't say.

But I'm not here to mince words with you. You can think whatever you like. Stay in whatever contrived reality you like.

 

[XponentialChaos]

I merely stated an observation and it sent you off on one of your tangents.

Simmer down.

QED.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Anyway, moving on.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Lmao.

So you’re at Applebee’s, it’s your birthday, the staff sings Happy Birthday to you. A snot-nosed child says it’s his birthday too. What do you do?

Here’s what I would do: nothing. I don’t give a shit if some snot-nosed kid wants to be sang to.

So what do you do in that scenario?

Doing nothing in the context of the OP would inflame both sides.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Is all of the cultural spectrum worthy of protection? Are your values and morality no more or less virtuous than another culture’s?


“In an effort to "avoid litigation," New Hampshire’s capital city said it will allow The Satanic Temple (TST) to be part of the holiday display in the city's town square.

The city of Concord, New Hampshire, said in a Facebook post Saturday that TST had received a permit allowing them to display a holiday monument near the city's nativity scene outside the New Hampshire State House.

The city explained that under the First Amendment, and to avoid litigation, Concord had to choose whether to ban all holiday displays installed by other groups or allow the TST display.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-hampshire-capital-includes-satanic-symbol-part-holiday-display-to-avoid-litigation

“The legs of the black Baphomet outside the State House stood standing, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.

On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the pieces of the vandalized goat-headed figure, three days after it was first unveiled on Main Street in Concord.

The base was heavy to move and passerby had left a Santa hat, a cross and a Christmas ornament on the statue. Read thought the statute would have lasted longer than three days, but there she was returning the remnants to leaders from The Satanic Temple in New Hampshire and Vermont. It’s up to them if the downtown statute will be replaced, she said.”

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-12-10/satanic-temple-concord-holiday-display-state-house-first-amendment

Hey, gotta be inclusive ya know.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I happen to live in the 21st. century, I can read and I'm more than nine years old. I bet you are too.

Humanity, in this advanced state of communication and knowledge, one would think objectivity would be a 21st Century thing too. But you clearly are a demonstration of that not being the case.

Whatever century you live in, it isn't this one, intellectually speaking. You are just as entrenched in your dogmatic atheism as you claim I am in my faith.

Yet I can confidently say I know where the middle ground is, and you don't.

 

[Arlette]

Humanity, in this advanced state of communication and knowledge, one would think objectivity would be a 21st Century thing too. But you clearly are a demonstration of that not being the case.

Whatever century you live in, it isn't this one, intellectually speaking.

That's just nonsense. I respect you as a human being, a person. But intellectually - no. I just don't.

 

[TemplarKormac]

But intellectually - no. I just don't.

Why? Because of a superiority complex?

I would think narcissism would be a thing of the past too, but you once again demonstrate that isn't the case, either.

And Arlette, you have barely begun to engage me intellectually on this board. You've been here for a little less than 1 1/2 years. I for 11.

If you want to engage me intellectually, do it, otherwise stop trying to make comparisons between our intelligence. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Satanists have put up with Christian celebrations for centuries

Technically Satanists would be older than Christianity..

 

[Arlette]

Why? Because of a superiority complex?

I would think narcissism would be a thing of the past too, but you once again demonstrate that isn't the case, either.

And Arlette, you have barely begun to engage me intellectually on this board. You've been here for a little less than 1 1/2 years. I for 11.

If you want to engage me intellectually, do it, otherwise stop trying to make comparisons between our intelligence. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

You believe total bullshit.

 

[TemplarKormac]

You believe total bullshit.

Oh? You confine my intellect to my beliefs and never even attempt to gauge it for yourself.

The loss is yours.

 

[DonGlock26]

Is all of the cultural spectrum worthy of protection? Are your values and morality no more or less virtuous than another culture’s?


“In an effort to "avoid litigation," New Hampshire’s capital city said it will allow The Satanic Temple (TST) to be part of the holiday display in the city's town square.

The city of Concord, New Hampshire, said in a Facebook post Saturday that TST had received a permit allowing them to display a holiday monument near the city's nativity scene outside the New Hampshire State House.

The city explained that under the First Amendment, and to avoid litigation, Concord had to choose whether to ban all holiday displays installed by other groups or allow the TST display.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-hampshire-capital-includes-satanic-symbol-part-holiday-display-to-avoid-litigation

“The legs of the black Baphomet outside the State House stood standing, but its head was on the ground, robes crumpled and panel of Seven Fundamental Tenets shattered.

On Tuesday morning, Rep. Ellen Read, a Newmarket Democrat, was picking up the pieces of the vandalized goat-headed figure, three days after it was first unveiled on Main Street in Concord.

The base was heavy to move and passerby had left a Santa hat, a cross and a Christmas ornament on the statue. Read thought the statute would have lasted longer than three days, but there she was returning the remnants to leaders from The Satanic Temple in New Hampshire and Vermont. It’s up to them if the downtown statute will be replaced, she said.”

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-12-10/satanic-temple-concord-holiday-display-state-house-first-amendment

I've seen that symbol somewhere before.

 

[Arlette]

Oh? You confine my intellect to my beliefs and never even attempt to gauge it for yourself.

The loss is yours.

You blew it but I'm certain you'll survive.

 

[el midgetron]

Lmao.

So you’re at Applebee’s, it’s your birthday, the staff sings Happy Birthday to you. A snot-nosed child says it’s his birthday too. What do you do?

But it’s NOT their birthday. And they don’t do this to any other group other than Christians. Go force Judaism on Muslim Communities. Go force the awesomeness of heterosexuality on the gay community. No, you won’t because you are just a full of shit bigot.

What would I do? First off, I wouldn’t eat at Applebee’s FFS. Secondly I would just look over at you, the snot-nosed child’s parent and feel empathy for the kid since you are such a failure as a parent and will undoubtedly just pass your empty, bitter and meaningless existence onto them.

How about this scenario, you are eating at Applebee’s and a satanist comes over and slaps the dick out of your mouth and sings happy birthday to you. That’s it, end of scenario.

 

[el midgetron]

I do agree with evolution, but I also believe in creation. They go hand in hand.

Amen to that.

 

[Arlette]

But it’s NOT their birthday. And they don’t do this to any other group other than Christians. Go force Judaism on Muslim Communities. Go force the awesomeness of heterosexuality on the gay community. No, you won’t because you are just a full of shit bigot.

What would I do? First off, I wouldn’t eat at Applebee’s FFS. Secondly I would just look over at you, the snot-nosed child’s parent and feel empathy for the kid since you are such a failure as a parent and will undoubtedly just pass your empty, bitter and meaningless existence onto them.

How about this scenario, you are eating at Applebee’s and a satanist comes over and slaps the dick out of your mouth and sings happy birthday to you. That’s it, end of scenario.

El midget is thinking about homo stuff again.

 

[XponentialChaos]

What would I do? First off, I wouldn’t eat at Applebee’s FFS. Secondly I would just look over at you, the snot-nosed child’s parent and feel empathy for the kid since you are such a failure as a parent and will undoubtedly just pass your empty, bitter and meaningless existence onto them.

Great. So give them a dirty look and shut the fuck up.

You can do the exact same thing when they post their religious displays next to yours.

Problem solved.