BREAKING: Satanic idol at Iowa State Capitol BEHEADED by Christian veteran - Christ is King!

A Satanic altar erected in the Iowa Capitol building has been torn down and beheaded by a Christian and former military officer.

According to The Sentinel, Michael Cassidy pushed over and decapitated the statue of Baphomet, which was placed in the building by members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa after receiving permission, and discarded the head of the statue into the trash.

https://twitter.com/RepubSentinel/status/1735406252358852985

Cassidy told the outlet that he destroyed the altar on Thursday to "awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government."

"The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment," Cassidy said. "Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water."

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1735425307849675201

Cassidy turned himself in to officers who were present in the building, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa seeks to press charges. Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief.

“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy said. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”

Cassidy previously ran for Congress in Mississippi and served as a Navy pilot.

The display drew outrage, with Iowa Lawmaker saying, "I am calling for our governor to have this blasphemous display removed immediately based on the grounds that it is unconstitutional and offends God upon whom the State of Iowa depends for blessings."

"I am calling for clarifying legislation to be adopted in accordance with our State Constitution that prohibits satanic displays in our Capitol building and on all state owned property. I am calling for legislation to be adopted that makes it legal to display the Ten Commandments in our Capitol, in all buildings owned by the state, and in our public schools."

The display was permitted to be in the capital building for two weeks, and featured a mirrored, caped statue of Baphomet, complete with a black and red "holiday wreath" with a pentagram in the center.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-satanic-altar-at-iowa-state-capitol-destroyed-by-christian-veteran

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[Absurdist Laughter]

You said a Christian shouldn't tear down the statue and I cited why that wasn't necessarily true.

God has appointed the Law of Man as the Law of God and to go against it is to go against God themself. Some BS in Leviticus that I'm paraphrasing. I'm saying, you can justify just about anything if you find the right religious texts. Just like the fucking left points to all their research papers of their religion. Point I am making is the legality of it, not my opinion on the man's religious beliefs, but how it was expressed. I am preaching pacifism, peaceful protesting, charity, and community service even more so now that it feels like factions outside of the control of the common man are goin' a little crazy. Why choose to be a piece of basalt in the mud when you can be a shimmering diamond in the mud.

I'd also call it a stretch to say this particular incident was violent,

I'd call you daft, but I think you're just lame. The legal definition of crime of violence disagrees with your "stretch" Goatse.

The term "crime of violence" means-

(a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or

(b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.

But that's your opinion and you're more than welcome to continue to keep it.

And why is pacificism good?

Makin' a lot of assumptions bud. I never stated it was good or bad, just that if I have the opportunity presents itself it's probably the best course. Communication, compromise, and sacrifice are all part of de-escalating from America the Divided and America the United.

You want to "preach pacifism" but on what grounds?

Well, I mean, if this person didn't topple the statue they wouldn't have charges levied against them. There's that, cooler heads always prevail; unless it is the Kiwifarms ya dumb, stupid, nigger faggot.

If there is no God, then it should be survival of the fittest.

You're full of choice opinions. How the fuck did you make the leap from "There is no God" therefore, "survival of the fittest." What? This has genuinely intrigued me with its absurdity. Actually, never mind, your comparisons of human to that of the beasts has told me enough. Would it be wrong to assume that those without faith are no different to the primal savagery of animals?

 

[X Prime]

Communication, compromise, and sacrifice are all part of de-escalating from America the Divided and America the United.

True. We should communicate how best to ritually sacrifice these degenerates, compromising on how much budget should be allocated to this righteous task.

What could be more unifying?

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

True. We should communicate how best to ritually sacrifice these degenerates, compromising on how much budget should be allocated to this righteous task.

What could be more unifying?

You're not wrong either! I think y'all should, just do it legally to protect yourself and your family from a tyrannical administration and a broken judicial system.

 

[JustTheFaxcts]

You're full of choice opinions. How the fuck did you make the leap from "There is no God" therefore, "survival of the fittest." What? This has genuinely intrigued me with its absurdity. Actually, never mind, your comparisons of human to that of the beasts has told me enough. Would it be wrong to assume that those without faith are no different to the primal savagery of animals?

This is pretty much the premise of Nietzsche just at the extreme for hyperbole. If there is no ultimate moral authority (God) then it is the will of the strongest that succeeds. Where is that logic wrong?

 

[X Prime]

You're not wrong either! I think y'all should, just do it legally to protect yourself and your family from a tyrannical administration and a broken judicial system.

Doesn't the whole J6 thing kind of throw a wrench into that by virtue of legality being highly subjective?

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Let me ask you then, if Christians don't care about my opinion, why should I care about there opinion on abortions? Why should I classify the acts of this man any differently to that of the left tearing down statues? Because of your faith? Fuck you, I don't care about your faith. But when I see an opportunity to preach pacifism, I will fucking take it. This situation should have been handled differently. It would have been a net benefit as well, heck, a headline even at a local level about how a community responds to obvious troll could have boosted moral. But nah, I'm just a dude whose opinion doesn't matter because I lack the ability to pull bible passages out of my asshole. My loss, I suppose.

It's simple. It's not an opinion that abortion is murder. If it's legal, it's state sanctioned murder. It's a fact. Not an opinion. Just like pedophiles deserve the chair. Everyone on this site is happy to stomp in a child molester's head. Molesting children is an evil act. Putting up a statue of Satan, to "pwn the Christians" while not equivalent, is an evil act.

I don't view doing something evil to destroy evil as an evil act and the Bible actively tells us not to. So yes, smash the gay ass statue. If you want to sell your ass hole to Satan, then you can burn in Hell. If you want to force evil imagery upon others against their will, I will happily expedite your trip to Hell. The guy who did this is no different than the people at Balenciaga who diddle the kids. The people who approved it are no better than the Epstein clients. They're all the same.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Sounds like cope

It's really not, a lot of the moral framework in the bible is from earlier civilizations like Babylon (Mosiac law is just a rewriting of the Laws of Hammurabi) and there is heavy Greek and Roman influence. None of them were Christian, yet their ideas on morality found a place in Christianity.
Plus it's absurd on it's face. A decent person is decent because they are, not because of believing in a particular god. There are non-religious people with good hearts and malignant religious people.

 

[X Prime]

Sounds like a lot of words that are also cope.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

That's not true. You don't need the Christian God to have morals, or any god at all. "Survival of the fittest" is how life is formed, not a moral teaching on how society should run.

I have about 50 years of the Rise and Era of Clown World that prove that this statement isn't just wrong, but that you're retarded and autistic for even suggesting it.

Yes. The meme was a lie. You do need a book to tell you murder is wrong. If you didn't, abortion wouldn't exist.

 

[JustTheFaxcts]

Plus it's absurd on it's face. A decent person is decent because they are, not because of believing in a particular god. There are non-religious people with good hearts and malignant religious people.

But you're the one defining good here. You're no different than Chris Chan assuming he gets to decide what's ultimately right and wrong. Everyone does what's right in their own eyes, even the monkey torturers and pedos justify their behavior and think they are 'decent people'.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

You're not wrong either! I think y'all should, just do it legally to protect yourself and your family from a tyrannical administration and a broken judicial system.

But if the courts are broken and the administration is tyrannical, then how do I protect myself legally?

It's almost like when you make peaceful resolution impossible, violence is inevitable.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

I have about 50 years of the Rise and Era of Clown World that prove that this statement isn't just wrong, but that you're retarded and autistic for even suggesting it.

Really? You've never known a decent person who was agnostic or just irreligious? Not everyone who isn't religious is a radical progressive or atheist.

It's almost like when you make peaceful resolution impossible, violence is inevitable.

No crappy plastic Baphomet will be safe! Deus vult!

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

This is pretty much the premise of Nietzsche just at the extreme for hyperbole. If there is no ultimate moral authority (God) then it is the will of the strongest that succeeds. Where is that logic wrong?

Nietzsche, at least modern folks who cherry pick the philosophy of Nihilism are larpers. You're logic falls apart by making the argument that if God doesn't exist civilization wouldn't exist either. God is not the glue that holds civilization together, it is part of a whole system. Hell, Laws are just social constructs that society as a whole has agreed upon as a net benefit to the civilization. Religion and religious laws serve the same purpose as the cautionary stories of Sin and devilish temptation; control.

If anything, we are seeing people fail due to an over abundance of availability. It's like Digital Piracy, I can have any software I could think of on my computer. Every game, every movie, every television show just a click away. I've stated in other threads that I used to pirate based off of who owned the parent company or if I supported a studio/director/musician. Why? Because I created my own morality and code; it is still a criminal act. Just like comitting a crime of violence.

Doesn't the whole J6 thing kind of throw a wrench into that by virtue of legality being highly subjective?

It does and I was attempting to allude to that earlier and now further clarified. I didn't care about the protest until they started to slap cuffs on and blow the whole event into an "insurrection"; please, what a load of hog.

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The silver lining is, if it goes to court and gets appealed to a high enough court; y'all will have a clear definition of what religious hate crimes look like. It is my wish that vandals of places of worship should be charged with a hate crime (with discretion of course).

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Really? You've never known a decent person who was agnostic or just irreligious? Not everyone who isn't religious is a radical progressive or atheist.

A person might be fine and normal as an atheist. People are not a person. People are dumb, and they need a unifying view of morality to function as a society. An example: a group of vegans and a group of meat eaters can live together just fine. But when the vegans seize power and decide to tell the meat eaters they can't eat meat anymore because it's wrong, don't be surprised when their society goes to chaos. Unified coded morality is what keeps society together.

While it's impossible to keep everything together all the time, the game is to try to keep as much unified as possible. Religion is a conduit for that. That's why we evolved to be able to believe in a higher power in the first place. We do it for a good reason.

 

[JustTheFaxcts]

Nietzsche, at least modern folks who cherry pick the philosophy of Nihilism are larpers. You're logic falls apart by making the argument that if God doesn't exist civilization wouldn't exist either. God is not the glue that holds civilization together, it is part of a whole system. Hell, Laws are just social constructs that society as a whole has agreed upon as a net benefit to the civilization. Religion and religious laws serve the same purpose as the cautionary stories of Sin and devilish temptation; control.

So you agree to the existence of God, just not Jesus? Wouldn't that essentially be islam following theologians such as Avicenna. In short, the physical order of things suggests God's nature thus it's justified to spread ideologies via force if necessary. Just as genetics are spread through physical fitness so are the laws governing society. Effectiveness and longevity acts as a form of divine approval.

 

[Molag Bal]

No one worships idols except Hindus and it's not any more inherently "evil" than drinking communion wine or honoring a saint.

Christians are the biggest idolaters. You worship jews all the time. How is venerating an entire race as some form of infallible demigod not idolatry? To make it more pathetic, it's not even your own race, but a mortal enemy who despises you.

No one worships Baphomet.

Half the church of satan does. Plenty of rich people and politicians do. Especially in Iowa judging by OP's article.

That's not true. You don't need the Christian God to have morals, or any god at all. "Survival of the fittest" is how life is formed, not a moral teaching on how society should run.

You don't need the christian god, in fact the christian god is counterproductive in that regard, because it compels the virtuous into allowing evil to take root without fighting back.

But you do need some kind of unifying creed that lays out an agreed-upon set of morals. Without it, there are no morals, only preferences. Things you like and things you don't like. Most people confuse morality with their own preferences and that's how you end up with conflicts where each side considers the other to be evil.
There are certain behaviours that most people can agree on liking, ancaps call it 'universally preferable behaviour' (stuff like don't steal, don't go around murdering or raping innocents etc) but even those are only agreed-upon good things as a 'rule'. There are plenty of people who love committing robberies or murdering people. In their eyes, doing those things is perfectly good and moral. They may not be sustainable preferences in a static society because they promote parasitism, which always requires a host, but for the duration of their temporary existence, the people that engage in them will consider them moral. Or at least not intrinsically immoral.

 

[AN/ALR56]

Even if you think that violence is justified, stop, think, and really ask yourself if the hill you're defending is really worth dying on.

I wonder how in the fuck we got such spineless cowards here on a forum that has fought for it's very existence for nearly 5 years now because it dared to call men in dresses for what they really are.

Violence? A fucking shitty paper mache statue was toppled, if that is violence, then Jesus driving the money lenders and traders from the temple was a terrorist act.

It's fucking insane we got so degenerate we are forced to put satanic statues in our legislative houses in a pathetic attempt to appease reddit faggots who are still angry 40 years later than their parents took them to church and have based their entire personality on being the total opposite, it is even worse that whatever sensible reaction is labeled as "bad optics" or a "hate crime".

 

[Puff]

The amount of cope and seethe from the Crypto Satanists shows that this was a good move.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Christians are the biggest idolaters.

I wouldn't say so. They peed their pants every time they encountered an actual idol. Idols are a religious statue that is venerated as a conduit of that God or Goddess. It's a modern convention to have "idol" mean stuff that doesn't matter that people are enamored with, such as money, fame etc.

You worship jews all the time.

I'm not a Christian.

Half the church of satan does. Plenty of rich people and politicians do. Especially in Iowa judging by OP's article.

I'm just saying, it's not some ancient deity or demon people cared about for most of history.

Jesus driving the money lenders and traders from the temple was a terrorist act.

Based and rabbipilled?

It's fucking insane we got so degenerate we are forced to put satanic statues in our legislative houses in a pathetic attempt to appease reddit faggots who are still angry 40 years later than their parents took them to church and have based their entire personality on being the total opposite

It's a little bit cringe because it's reddit atheists but they should still be allowed and religions like theistic Satanism are as valid as any and should get public representation.

 

[X Prime]

Imagine pretending that "theistic Satanism" is anything other than adult children crying about going to church to venerate the true God as a kid.