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Related: About this forumMichigan Lawmaker Wants To Troll Satanic Temple With Nativity Scene
A Republican state senator in Michigan heard that a Detroit chapter of a Satantic Temple is planning to set up a holiday display at the state Capitol. So the lawmaker, state Sen. Rick Jones, wants to counter that display with a nativity scene.
"I'm a little outraged that a Satanic group has decided to steal a Christian holiday," Jones told MLive. " As a Christian, I think it's important that we respond to this."
The Satanic Temple, according to MLive, is planing to put up a display that features a serpent, cross, and "secular message" on the north lawn of the Capitol. The display is supposed to stay from Dec. 21 to 23.
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Jones said the whole situation made him "almost as angry as when [then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)] tried to call the Christmas tree a holiday tree, which she later reversed after much protest" in 2006.
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Blackmore also told MLive that her temple doesn't worship Satan. Instead it just tries to "separate superstition from deeply held religious beliefs."
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"I'm a little outraged that a Satanic group has decided to steal a Christian holiday," Jones told MLive. " As a Christian, I think it's important that we respond to this."
The Satanic Temple, according to MLive, is planing to put up a display that features a serpent, cross, and "secular message" on the north lawn of the Capitol. The display is supposed to stay from Dec. 21 to 23.
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Jones said the whole situation made him "almost as angry as when [then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)] tried to call the Christmas tree a holiday tree, which she later reversed after much protest" in 2006.
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Blackmore also told MLive that her temple doesn't worship Satan. Instead it just tries to "separate superstition from deeply held religious beliefs."
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Michigan Lawmaker Wants To Troll Satanic Temple With Nativity Scene (Original Post)
Capt. Obvious
Dec 2014
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Well there's your problem, Mr Jones. You can't tell the difference between a temple and the Capitol.
Iggo
Dec 2014
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cbayer
(146,218 posts)1. Taking bets on who is the most juvenile in this scenario.
Doesn't matter who you bet on, you will win.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)2. Well there's your problem, Mr Jones. You can't tell the difference between a temple and the Capitol.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)3. and then the nativity scene erected at a Satanic display to get revenge for a Satanic
display being erected at a nativity scene will get a Satanic display of its own, and
it's cupcakes and strippers all the way down
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)4. Well, that sounds better than turtles.