Spyke
Semi-Hemi-Demigod
kbin.social

Here's the prayer for people who don't read the article:

In the name of the eternal rebel against tyrannical authority, in the spirit of your nature of the natural world, the freedoms of thought and expression, unprejudiced intellectual inquiry, economics and social progress to bring influence and guiding actions of nobility and justice to the decisions made in this chamber today, to act with might and the undertaking of responsibility that may lay ahead of this body before us today.
The New Age is dawning that these decisions will play a role in. For our liberation, for here and now is our day of joy, here and now is our opportunity.
May we seize this glorious day and its enchanting night to celebrate the wonders of the natural world, as we are all part of its boundless mysteries.

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kamenokoreply
sh.itjust.works

Hail Satan (not tongue in cheek). We've been to space please stop believing in bronze age mythology.

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southsamuraireply
sh.itjust.works

I would say that there's some degree of value to hailing satan semi seriously, as long as it's in the vein of hailing the idea of standing against power out of control. There's value in archetypes in that regard.

It's not praising a literal entity, it's praising the idea of satan as the icon of rebellion and revolt. It's the difference between levay style Satanism and satanic Temple style. Not that I am a member of any of them, but I dig the idea of using the iconography of the christo-fascist bullshit to work against them.

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Semi-Hemi-Demigodreply
kbin.social

I mean, if you think rebellion against authority is a bad thing. But I thought this was America. Rebelling against tyrannical authority is our nation's origin story.

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ForestOrca
kbin.social

From the article:
She then asked the county's legal counsel – Nate Edwards of the district attorney's office – to clarify the county's requirements when honoring requests from groups wishing to deliver the invocation.

Edwards said that satanic invocations are part of a trend.

"The federal law is that you don't have to open your floor for invocations," he said. "If you do open your floor for invocations, then federal law is that you have to let everybody have a turn signing up. So I guess you take the good with the bad."

I'm glad that Nate Edwards left open the definition of "good" and "bad".

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littleblue✨reply
lemmy.world

We're rooting for you to continue to grow and progress past your old self, citizen. 🤗

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SkabySkalywag
lemmy.world

God damnit, I might trade in Pastafarianism for Satanism, those hell cock suckers seem so much cooler....

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iggy
lemmy.world

Look at the faces in the crowd... The lady is like "how can this be happening?!?!" And the guy with the glasses is just like "I told you this would happen"

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flipht
kbin.social

I'm Unitarian. My pastor gave a speech to new members that there's "freedom of the pulpit, and freedom of the pew." Meaning you can disagree with the speaker or whatever they're saying.

Maybe this experience will teach him that he doesn't have to bend to authority without question. Probably not, but maybe.

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