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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hail yourself!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

It's charged as a felony. I believe someone said there was minimum jail time of around two years.

Reminder to donate to the Satanic Temple. They fight christian idiots with things like holiday decorations of Baphomet on state land. Fund them enough and we'll get another one or more of these insecure god-thumpers locked up next year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Take note dumb shits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

So. Fucking. Based.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

We’ve long since come full circle (well, I guess half circle). The satanists embody virtue and the christians evil.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Funny the satanists I knew were all about manipulation of everyone they encountered. Even gave me a book on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

idiots

You aren't going to find a bunch of geniuses praying to a dead jew on a stick to come back from the dead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good opportunity to spread the word:

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Don't you guys get it? He HAD to destroy it to make sky daddy happy smh

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