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.

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.

  • blahsay@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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).

    • littleblue✨@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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. 🤷🏼‍♂️

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        8 months ago

        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.

  • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz
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    8 months ago

    my conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted

    You know what is going to be held captive by bureaucratic decree? Your felon status, fucker!

    Can I have your AR-15 once you’re convicted? Because you won’t be allowed to own it after! And j/k about your rifle, I bet it’s a PSA p p piece of shit (dumbasses like this guy tend to be poor whiskey tango).

  • PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Good opportunity to spread the word:

    Hail Satan? Is a great documentary about TST, highly encouraged to watch.

    • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Girlfriend and I have been members for years, haven’t seen this yet. Will check it out tonight.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      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.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So if he dies in prison he goes to heaven???

    Or maybe he goes to hell but he gets to enjoy pleasures rather than suffer torture.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      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.

      Now they’re dead and no one on earth cares.

    • butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Wait, who?

      The “religious freedom” crowd are the ones who want the freedom to grift and sow divisiveness among their brain-dead sheep, I mean pawns, I mean congregants.

  • Facebones@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • butt_mountain_69420@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • Zetta@mander.xyz
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        8 months ago

        The intent is to force feed some of their own medicine back down their throats, I believe

                • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  But let me guess, were wrong.

                  Considering there are 3 of you and you all have different explanations, at least 2 have to be wrong. But I gave you the link to their reasoning, which is not what any of the three have said.

              • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                8 months ago

                Look, it’s clear that you don’t understand TST.

                What better way to spread awareness of religious liberty than to bait zealots into committing hate crimes, and then throwing the book at them?

                Assholes like this guy are a direct threat to liberty. Expose them and make examples of them. Set the precedent that Christianity doesn’t excuse fascism before Christians set the opposite precedent.

                • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  What better way to spread awareness of religious liberty than to bait zealots into committing hate crimes

                  Making people angry is probably the least effective way to get them to see your side. It’s well established that when people feel attacked, they are less open to changing their views. Of course, in cases like this, it’s probably impossible to avoid angering people.

                  But I see nothing in your post that actually shows what the TST thinks on this, only what you think is the best course of action.

      • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple says it doesn’t believe in Satan but describes itself as a “non-theistic religious organization” that advocates for secularism.

        I think the intend was definitely to protest and demand “Separation of church and state”. So problem wasn’t the nutjob destroying the idol, it was the nutjobs allowing religious displays in the Capitol building.

  • Bluetooth@feddit.dk
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    8 months ago

    And the Cristian wack jobs are in full force donating to his legal defense. Already at 116.00 usd, with completely normal and not at all fanatic comments, like “_ May God punish the foul souls bringing charges against you! There is a higher law than man made law, and you are upon that law. God bless you and keep you._”. Abhorrent behavior…

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      God damn, I wish I didn’t have morals and a conscience… With my knowledge of religion and the scriptures I could be making BANK milking the gullible.

      • Tyfud@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        This is my same struggle every day having been raised in a preacher’s home.

        Reading the Bible is what turned me into an atheist

          • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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            8 months ago

            Hmm I looked it up and apparently one has to be careful with interpreting this. It’s not really about being happy to dash infants against rocks. It’s simply a call for the destruction of the entire nation of people. It’s really about justice! And that’s a good thing! /s

            • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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              8 months ago

              Those babies deserved it, and if they didn’t they’re going to heaven anyway, so really it’s a mercykill.

              Anway, love thy neighbors!

        • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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          8 months ago

          FYI: Israelites are a branch of Canaanites, El is a Canaanitic god, and The Exodus lacks evidence from ever happening.

          That was absolutely wild to learn as ex-Christian. Also, the social hole you fall into as you leave Christianity is pretty terrifying, but you’ll eventually learn to deal with it.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Reading the Bible is what turned me into an atheist

          Same. And the ultimate irony is that the values I used to determine that the Bible is a fucked up book that I want nothing to do with, are the same values that my uber-Christian parents instilled in me, and then lost at some point along the way.

          YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS

      • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yep. I have had these same thoughts. Start a business. Any business. Slap “Christian” in the name. Profit.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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          8 months ago

          I really liked the one where somebody was prepared to buy people’s worldly goods and look after them in the event of the rapture.

          It’s a great scam because it literally cannot go wrong. If it turns out they were right and the rapture happens you still don’t have to deal with all the junk and otherwise you can sell it back to them for a profit.

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Peter 2:13-17

      Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

      Sooo yeah “God is a higher authority you need not heed” is more like government is the official middle management. Obey the management.

    • mob@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      Is 116.00 supposed to be like 116,000? Must have shot up since the article was published then?

      Cassidy is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 15. He has raised more than $84,000 for his defense from nearly 2,000 supporters, according to the fundraising site GiveSendGo.