I'm glad you fixed it. Some priests are not down with the separation of church and skate.

separation of church and skate

sings

Now, Heaven would be a DJ spinning dub all night long

And Heaven would be just kicking back with Jesus packing my bong

And if you don't believe in Jesus, then Muhammad or Buddha, too

And while the world is warring, we just sit back and laugh at you, singing

If I die before I wake

At least in Heaven, I can skate

'Cause right now on Earth, I can't do jack

Without the man up on my back

You will literally hear dumb fuck xtians argue until they are blue in the face that what the Founders really meant to do was to merely allow you to choose among an array of xtian sects. Maybe if you are spicy, you'll be permitted to be Jewish, because well, Jesus was a Jew. And we will "tolerate" that.

Other xtians just seem to view "religious freedom" as "xtians get special privileges and they should be able to treat certain groups less-than if it suits them".

And man, they'll definitely get butthurt when you point out that the First pretty much requires that you have freedom FROM as well as freedom OF. And that "OF" means....anything, not just xtianity. I'll be a fucking pagan on Monday, fuck you very much because of that OF, and if I please, I'll be an atheist on Tuesday because of the FROM. Because that's real religious freedom.

freedom from it, as well.

But mine is the only correct one!

—selfish idiots

What's ridiculous about it is, if any of the people who were offended actually sat down and analyzed the wording, the only thing they could reasonably object to is the "Hail Satan" at the end. Which illustrates the entire problem with Christian Nationalism. They don't care about the content, only the branding.

Jesus freak here and I concur. This prayer is a 10/10 no notes.

It's honestly so weird. The whole ritual needs to be done away with

They should do as Alcoholics Anonymous did. Change god for "higher power". Because, you know, people need a higher power nanny.

BTW: Alcoholics Anonymous has a direct surrender to God in 4 of it's 12 steps, and indirect mention in 2 more. And god is obviously a "Him"

maybe they used the original?

Fucking Reagan.

It didn't used to

they added the Under God part during the Red Scare to show the world that the US wasn't a secular godless nation like the USSR at the time.

Hail Satan.

Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not for their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.

Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.

Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of one or all.

That which will not bend must break. And that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise.

Think about it. To me that sounds like a literal slice of heaven, especially that last line.

But this guy's convinced it's a curse. Either that or the multi-syllabic big words made him scared.

Sounds like Rick Bick is thick as a fucking brick.

Honestly it’s very hard to argue with anything in that prayer, it’s pretty reasonable and clear.

Only thing I don’t like is the call for judging. I do think people can change, they should be judged on their actions and intents, but we should reasonably allow for second chances and improvement.

One thing Christianity is good at is taking people who feel irredeemable and reassuring them that they’re still people with a chance in life. As long as people see their wrongs and try to improve, I think we can and should forgive some things.

I hate the people who continue being shit then say God forgives them or Jesus died for them so it’s all washed out. That’s the same energy as throwing stuff on the ground because there’s a janitor. You are responsible for your actions and their impacts, just asking for forgiveness shouldn’t grant it without sincerely understanding and trying to improve.

Imagine being a grown-ass man listening to this, taking the stage and unironically saying “that was a curse put on our city, and most of you know that”. They actually fucking believe that some guy saying “Hail Satan” has the power to “curse” a city.

And this is exactly why the Satanic Temple exists.

Hail Satan

I used to be a preacher, and am still a Christian. I also have given money to the Satanic Temple because the work they do is important.

Separation of church and state is good for the government, the churches, and society at large.

Mayor's worst nightmare came true

Thick prick Rick Bick is a sick dick.

That's something most Americans don't understand about our history. We love to claim that the first settlers in the modern-day states (Puritans mostly) were 'fleeing religious persecution' and sought a new land where they could gain 'freedom of religion'. Pretty much all of that is wrong, they were a fringe early-Protestant group who wanted to distance themselves from the new Church of England which they felt was still too Catholic. Once they got here, anything and everything they considered too heretical was... well, see the Salem Witch Trials for a prime example. They were the epitome of "freedom for me, not for thee" and that attitude/practice went on to infect the whole rest of the country as history progressed.

Does he drive taxis? Or are you just forecasting the weather to him?