…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.
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”.
…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.
What is the formatting used to denote strikethrough on lemmy? On Kbin it looks like it's ignoring it, but it has double tilde as a supported strikethrough formatter.
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.
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
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
It’s charged as a felony. I believe someone said there was minimum jail time of around two years.
Reminder to donate to the Satanic Temple. They fight christian idiots with things like holiday decorations of Baphomet on state land. Fund them enough and we’ll get another one or more of these insecure god-thumpers locked up next year.
My guess is somebody clued them in that if they didn’t hit this guy with a hate crime then there would be precedent to protect people from hate crime status for crimes against Christian property.
That’s not really how precedent works. Not choosing to charge him with a hate crime would be a matter of prosecutorial discretion, and wouldn’t affect other prosecutors’ charging decisions. You better believe if you took a shit on whatever jeebus monument they have at the Mississippi Capitol they’d put you under the jail with every imaginable charge.
Personally I like the idea that there is an afterlife but it’s just another level of existence and nothing supernatural. And all these idiots are just really bored and have to come to terms with the fact that they died without ever really having a personality or opinions of their own. Everything they believed was just pointless and they would have been better off leaving everyone else alone.
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.
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).
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. 🤷🏼♂️
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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