LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Dozens attended a rally held by the Satanic Temple at the Arkansas State Capitol on Thursday.
The rally comes after the Arkansas legislature approved the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds.
During the Satanic Temple's Rally for the First Amendment, a more than 8-feet-tall Baphomet statue was unveiled.
Those against the rally also attended, telling KATV they had hoped to spread God's love.
Following the installation of the Ten Commandments monument, the Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit to have its statue placed on the same grounds in the name of religious pluralism and the First Amendment.
During the 2017 legislative session, the Satanic Temple sent a letter to Arkansas legislators asking for lawmakers to sponsor a bill that would allow a Baphomet statue on Capitol grounds, but not one lawmaker responded.
“The event is intended to be an inclusive gathering where The Satanic Temple will be celebrating pluralism along with Christian and secular speakers. People of many faiths will come together at the Capitol to reject the Arkansas State Legislature's efforts to privilege one religion over others,” explains Lucien Greaves, spokesman and co-founder of the Satanic Temple
1.) That's not actually happening 2.) Most Satanists technically are still Christian since they all worship the Christian version of Satan (I guess they're more like unChristians or deChristians or something of the sort)
Jackson Martinez
EGG ZACK LEE ™ !!!
to be succinct, fuck all forms of religion. They're delusional
Mason Diaz
Scientism is also cancer. You can be an atheist without being an obnoxious faggot tbh
So in other word Einstein wasn't a faggot like that retard scam artist Penn Einstein hated calling himself an atheist because even by his time the term had become corrupted from being a rational thinker and into being an autistic faggot
Hunter Moore
Albert Einstein: God is a Product of Human Weakness
"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954.
Nathan Long
Albert Einstein: It is a Lie that I Believe in a Personal God
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffman.
Einstein makes a clear statement that he doesn't believe in a personal God and that any statements to the contrary are misleading. Instead, the mysteries of the universe are enough for him to contemplate.
Jeremiah Hernandez
Albert Einstein: Human Fantasy Created Gods
"During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world." Albert Einstein, quoted in "2000 Years of Disbelief," James Haught.
This is another quote that takes aim at organized religion and equates religious belief to fantasy.
Easton Gomez
Albert Einstein: Idea of a Personal God is Childlike
"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." Albert Einstein to Guy H. Raner Jr., Sept. 28, 1949, quoted by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2.
This is an interesting quote that shows how Einstein preferred to act, or not act, on his lack of belief in a personal God. He recognized that others were more evangelical in their atheism.
Leo Davis
Albert Einstein: Idea of a Personal God Cannot be Taken Seriously
"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere…. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science," New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.
Einstein discusses how you can have an ethical basis and live morally while not believing in a personal God who determines what is moral and punishes those who go astray. His statements are in line with those of many who are atheist and agnostic.
Tyler Gutierrez
I'm with Einstein, I don't want to call myself an atheist, because of retards like you, Johnny, read a fucking book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
I've never called myself an atheist, or an agnostic……
I hate other people's labels
Carson Anderson
No True Scotsman fallacy my dude, you wont take a label because you fear the label but you can't escape being labeled for your actions. None of us can, its just how this shit works
not quite. I simply know that Einstein didn't believe in God, and I didn't have to 'scramble' to click one button and find dozens and dozens and dozens of quotes
Christopher Ross
News flash faggot, everyone here can tell you're a NWO bitch. You won't win if any of us have anything to say about it.
Evan Robinson
That's fair, but not all religions deal with Gods. Zen Buddhism is about coming to terms with your place in the universe and does not concern itself with gods at all.
Eli Turner
The aesthetic symbolisms of 'satanic' bullshit are all so predictable and cliche….
The gargoyles and pentagrams and all the other crap….
And to believe in Satanism, you must first believe in god
Brayden Bailey
If I did have any religion that I would even vaguely subscribe to, Buddhism would probably be it, but it's not, because it's still an organized concept.
Jonathan Sullivan
Ugh… I've gotta be awake at 6:00 AM…
this shit was so much easier when I was doing drugs….
Goodnight, everyone
Austin Morris
I recommend listening to Alan Watts then. He studied Zen but in his own words he is "Not a Zen Buddhist" and doesn't give a fuck about doctrines are changing peoples ways of life.
except stats say most experiments nowadays are neither peer reviewed nor reproducible
atheism: because if we try hard, we can make a more illogical religion than islam
Justin Scott
k den fam
Carter Walker
Simply by claiming that America is a literate people and that no religion without founding literature may be represented would negate this entire issue. The literature of Satanism either gives itself away as classically evil; gives itself away by the contradictory practice and sermons of its 'Temples'; or it fundamentally changes and dies out as a joke religion.
