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

[otto105]

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

So, more christian violence because it is a violent religion.

 

[otto105]

No one is saying “only” my sky daddy gets special privileges. A community deciding what religious traditions they want to celebration is not the same as the government telling a community what religious celebrations they must have.

Freedom is autonomy. Democracy is majority rule.

They don't get to exclude religious groups because they don't like them.

 

[XponentialChaos]

No one is saying “only” my sky daddy gets special privileges.

Great. So members of other religions are allowed to display their sky daddies right next to yours in front of government buildings if they choose to.

No special treatment for your sky daddy. Works for me.

 

[el midgetron]

So, more christian violence because it is a violent religion.

So, do you support equal representation of a violent religion? Should a community of faggy liberal commies like yourself be forced to display a Nativity?

Your community doesn’t want to celebrate Christianity. But you support the government telling you that you have celebrate Christianity.

 

[el midgetron]

They don't get to exclude religious groups because they don't like them.

Fine, then shut up and accept Christianity.

 

[otto105]

So, do you support equal representation of a violent religion? Should a community of faggy liberal commies like yourself be forced to display a Nativity?

Your community doesn’t want to celebrate Christianity. But you support the government telling you that you have celebrate Christianity.

On the public square it's no religious bullshit.

I support the government staying the fuck out of picking religions. And I expect all religions to be forced out of the public square back to the church, house prayer or whatever.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Should a community of faggy liberal commies like yourself be forced to display a Nativity?

Your community doesn’t want to celebrate Christianity. But you support the government telling you that you have celebrate Christianity.

It’s very simple. Either allow all of them to be represented there or none of them.

Take your pick. I’m good with either of those two options. But no special treatment for your sky daddy.

 

[el midgetron]

Great. So members of other religions are allowed to display their sky daddies right next to yours in front of government buildings if they choose to.

No special treatment for your sky daddy. Works for me.

So, you are cool with forcing the Muslim majority community of Hamtramck MI to host a Hanukkah celebration?

 

[el midgetron]

It’s very simple. Either allow all of them to be represented there or none of them.

Take your pick. I’m good with either of those two options. But no special treatment for your sky daddy.

So, in other words you support government mandated religion.

 

[scruffy]

Think about it.

Give your money to the church and your soul is saved.

Give your money to climate change cult fucks and you save the planet and lives.

SAME BULLSHIT GRIFT…DIFFERENT GODS.

The church does good works. They help people out. They were just passing blankets to the homeless last week when it started getting cold.

The climate change folks... not so much. They fly their private jets around and then bitch about the greenhouse gases.

I'm an old school environmentalist, I'm all about a healthy biosphere. But the climate change thing is a step beyond. We did have some hot days the past couple of summers, but they have those in Las Vegas and Chandler "every" day during the summer. I don't see it as cause for extreme alarm.

Besides, China and India are the big offenders, and good luck getting them to go along with carbon credits.

 

[el midgetron]

On the public square it's no religious bullshit.

I support the government staying the fuck out of picking religions. And I expect all religions to be forced out of the public square back to the church, house prayer or whatever.

Why should a theistic-void atheism be given default representation?

Public square is property of the people. Not government mandate.

 

[XponentialChaos]

So, you are cool with forcing the Muslim majority community of Hamtramck MI to host a Hanukkah celebration?

If the Muslim people want to put their stupid religion on display in front of government buildings, and the Jewish people want to put their Hanukkah display next to theirs, yes. They should be allowed to put theirs up as well.

 

[otto105]

So, you are cool with forcing the Muslim majority community of Hamtramck MI to host a Hanukkah celebration?

Yeah, in their own place, not on public land.

 

[sparky]

And I expect all religions to be forced out of the public square back to the church, house prayer or whatever.

or they can pay their taxes if they wish for their dog in the political fight......~S~

 

[XponentialChaos]

Why should a theistic-void atheism be given default representation?

Public square is property of the people. Not government mandate.

Property of the people.

So if the people want their religion displayed alongside displays from others, they get to as well.

What’s the issue here? Apparently the people, to you, means only the people who worship your sky daddy. What about the others? They’re the people too.

 

[otto105]

Why should a theistic-void atheism be given default representation?

Public square is property of the people. Not government mandate.

Because a lack of religion is not a religion.

 

[otto105]

or they can pay their taxes if they wish for their dog in the political fight......~S~

If they want public infrastructure to benefit their property they pay taxes on it.

 

[el midgetron]

If the Muslim people want to put their stupid religion on display in front of government buildings, and the Jewish people want to put their Hanukkah display next to theirs, yes. They should be allowed to put theirs up as well.

“Allowed” is a nice word. Try “mandated”. You want to mandate religious representation. You are the fascist who tells communities what religions they are required to celebrate.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

How far we have strayed from the founder's vision when rejecting evil is objectionable.

 

[el midgetron]

Yeah, in their own place, not on public land.

What? No, you want to force a majority Muslim community to host a Hanukkah celebration. Why? They don’t want to. You are a tyrant infringing on their freedom of religion.