Satan statue

[Shaker]

There it is... Shaker knows absolutely NOTHING  about the bible end time teachings... TUT TUT TUT

Shaker doesn't give a shit about such puerile twaddle, but does care very deeply and passionately about the English language and rational thought, to both of which you are as Stephen Hawking is to ballroom dancing.

[Owlswing]

The only thing that annoys me is it will attract lots of comments about the evils of paganism from muppet Christian fundies.

Too right it will - but thank the Goddess it is in the US where such fundamentalist stupidity is endemic!

[Owlswing]

Sriram, it's a reflection of the society/world that we live in, and the two children gazing up at it is quite nauseating.

Quote - the two children gazing up at it is quite nauseating. - Unquote

Why so?

[Owlswing]

Sriram, it's a reflection of the society/world that we live in

Equality for all religious beliefs, you mean. (That's all of them, not just yours, which is only one amongst many). Yes, it is.

Well, I guess you being an atheist will see it like that.

I'm a Pagan and I see it exactly like that - I cannot see why Christians seem to think that equality is only for them.

[Shaker]

I suppose because it's not two children gazing adoringly up at an ancient Jewish handyman, which would be just adorable .

[floo]

I haven't the faintest idea what on earth you're babbling about. Try it again, only this time in English.

There it is... Shaker knows absolutely NOTHING  about the bible end time teachings... TUT TUT TUT

More total garbage from Sass, but I suppose one can't expect anything else from her!

[Owlswing]

Rhi,
I've never heard that before. A MUPPET CHRISTIAN FUNDIE!!  Great screaming ghosts, you're a HOOT! And very muppet acting yourself when it has to do with Christianity, I must tell ya.

Why? That's not offensive to Christians. The vast majority are intelligent enough to understand there is no link between paganism and satanism.

And those who aren't part of "the vast majority [that] are intelligent enough to understand there is no link between paganism and satanism" aren't worth bothering about.

[Owlswing]

The only thing that annoys me is it will attract lots of comments about the evils of paganism from muppet Christian fundies.

Grow up. You already know that even some atheist view paganism as being bizarre to say the least when it comes to it's foundations and history. The Christians come under far more attack than paganism.  Fundies are no more of  a muppet than pagans,atheists and satanist. 

It is bloody UGLY that is the truth. It comes to something when a human being thinks Satan looks like a bloody goat and even worse when they build him looking so...

The outward appearance of  a statue is like children playing house. The real power of black magic is not found in such foolish public displays of here we are look at us.
They obviously find Christianity a threat as they want to place it facing the 10 commandments... Bit like using a chocolate fire guard... It melts and reveals how futile it really was to place such belief it could be useful....

What a load of bigoted tosh!

[Owlswing]

Rhi,
I've never heard that before. A MUPPET CHRISTIAN FUNDIE!!  Great screaming ghosts, you're a HOOT! And very muppet acting yourself when it has to do with Christianity, I must tell ya.

Why? That's not offensive to Christians. The vast majority are intelligent enough to understand there is no link between paganism and satanism.

YOU are wrong... Paganism tried to remove the link some years ago.The intelligent know that your denial is basically sticking your fingers in yours ear and denying it to yourself.

Wicker is a good place to start....

Wicker sacrificed to sun god... sun god also called Satan. Lucifer babylonian sun God.

Because the pagans tried to remove the attachment it is still true they were associated...

Nothing to do with intelligence just history.

More tosh, bigoted and ignorant - what you know about paganism could be written on a flea's arse with a baseball bat dipped in tar!

Stick to what you know - quote mining from the Bible.

[Shaker]

I'm keeping that one 

[Owlswing]

Rhi,
I've never heard that before. A MUPPET CHRISTIAN FUNDIE!!  Great screaming ghosts, you're a HOOT! And very muppet acting yourself when it has to do with Christianity, I must tell ya.

Why? That's not offensive to Christians. The vast majority are intelligent enough to understand there is no link between paganism and satanism.

YOU are wrong... Paganism tried to remove the link some years ago.The intelligent know that your denial is basically sticking your fingers in yours ear and denying it to yourself.

Wicker is a good place to start....

Wicker sacrificed to sun god... sun god also called Satan. Lucifer babylonian sun God.

Because the pagans tried to remove the attachment it is still true they were associated...

Nothing to do with intelligence just history.

Your post as usual has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence - the word is Wicca, not wicker 

You beat me to that one, Shaker.

[OH MY WORLD!]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/64/1f/af/641faf28aa905a4286dfb4c084cc697c.jpg

[Shaker]

And what?

[Owlswing]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/64/1f/af/641faf28aa905a4286dfb4c084cc697c.jpg

OK - so some idiot has sculpted a statue of my mother-in-law!

So what is your point because, as far as I can see, the statue has no connection whatsoever with Paganism, Satanism or Christianity.

[OH MY WORLD!]

Thought you can't be bothered with my links dearest Matty. Thought your wife left you, which means you have no mother in law. Thought you would take the hint and actually think before you post.

[Owlswing]

Thought you can't be bothered with my links dearest Matty. Thought your wife left you, which means you have no mother in law. Thought you would take the hint and actually think before you post.

You are a bigger foo, that evewn I took you for.

My wife did NOT leave me - she divorced me and I happily walked out of the house feeling like a twenty ton weight had been lifted fom my shoulders.

The above does not change the fact that her mother is, or was, my mother-in-law.

What hint?

Why should I think before I post a response to someone who never, ever, thinks before he posts! Which is, of course, why he posts such cr . . ., nonsense.

Now, will you please explain just what your linked photograph was supposed to convey?

[Rhiannon]

Rhi,
I've never heard that before. A MUPPET CHRISTIAN FUNDIE!!  Great screaming ghosts, you're a HOOT! And very muppet acting yourself when it has to do with Christianity, I must tell ya.

Why? That's not offensive to Christians. The vast majority are intelligent enough to understand there is no link between paganism and satanism.

YOU are wrong... Paganism tried to remove the link some years ago.The intelligent know that your denial is basically sticking your fingers in yours ear and denying it to yourself.

Wicker is a good place to start....

Wicker sacrificed to sun god... sun god also called Satan. Lucifer babylonian sun God.

Because the pagans tried to remove the attachment it is still true they were associated...

Nothing to do with intelligence just history.

Your post as usual has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence - the word is Wicca, not wicker 

Does she mean the Wicker Man? You know, Edward Woodward and all that?

It's possible the ancient Celts did something like that. But they weren't sacrificing to a Babylonian sun god.

[Rhiannon]

Wicker man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_man

Naughty fibbers, those Romans.

[Hope]

Seems like a good example of freedom of religion in action as far as I can see. If you can have Christian crosses and Islamic crescents all over the place, Satanists have to be catered for as well.

All or none. I'd rather it was none, but in the meantime, all will do.

But how do we know that this is what Satan looks like?

[Hope]

If you can have statues of Jesus, why not one of dear sweet Satan?

Doesn't the Bible speak against statues of God?

[Owlswing]

Rhi,
I've never heard that before. A MUPPET CHRISTIAN FUNDIE!!  Great screaming ghosts, you're a HOOT! And very muppet acting yourself when it has to do with Christianity, I must tell ya.

Why? That's not offensive to Christians. The vast majority are intelligent enough to understand there is no link between paganism and satanism.

YOU are wrong... Paganism tried to remove the link some years ago.The intelligent know that your denial is basically sticking your fingers in yours ear and denying it to yourself.

Wicker is a good place to start....

Wicker sacrificed to sun god... sun god also called Satan. Lucifer babylonian sun God.

Because the pagans tried to remove the attachment it is still true they were associated...

Nothing to do with intelligence just history.

Your post as usual has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence - the word is Wicca, not wicker 

Does she mean the Wicker Man? You know, Edward Woodward and all that?

It's possible the ancient Celts did something like that. But they weren't sacrificing to a Babylonian sun god.

Probably.

This is another hang-over from the late and unlamented Margaret Murray who posited that the Kings of England from pre-Christian times when each king was sacrificed to whichever Pagan god was relevant to the local area.

As kings everywhere prefer to remain alive and on their thrones, Murray theorised that they changed the rules so that a member of their tribe took their place inside the Wicker Man.

Rhi, both you and I know that this is a load of rubbish believed only by Murrayite anthropologists (of whom very few, thank the Goddess, remain) and Pagan-baiting, Pagan-history ignorant  Christians.

[Owlswing]

If you can have statues of Jesus, why not one of dear sweet Satan?

Doesn't the Bible speak against statues of God?

That just about says it all considering the number of statues of Christ in the Christian churches.

And, before someone says that they are of Christ and not of  God, I seem to remember posts on here stating, on good Christian authority (the Bible) that Christ IS God and God IS Christ.

[Hope]

That just about says it all considering the number of statues of Christ in the Christian churches.

And, before someone says that they are of Christ and not of  God, I seem to remember posts on here stating, on good Christian authority (the Bible) that Christ IS God and God IS Christ.

It is partly why I used the term God, Matt; God and Jesus are synonymous.  It is also why I don't believe that crucifixes are a good thing, though one would also have to ask thoise people who attend such churches whether they are worshipping the stone/wood/metal item that is affixed to the cross, or whether it is there as an aide memoire.  The same would have to be asked about this statue of Satan.

[Hope]

... and Pagan-baiting, Pagan-history ignorant  Christians.

I doubt whether many Christians even bother to think about Pagans and Paganism, Matt.  Let alone bait them.  The only baiting of Pagans I've ever known is that which comes as a result of comments like yours.   

[BashfulAnthony]

I suppose because it's not two children gazing adoringly up at an ancient Jewish handyman, which would be just adorable .

One thing's certain:  no two people will ever gaze adoringly up at your statue in years to come!