Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to “undo the curse that was just put on our city.”
An Iowa man has kicked off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa, Iowa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse.”
Ideally, religions (yeah, including mine) should be as away as possible from politics, but it’s priceless to see christians’ reaction when they hear the names Satan and Lucifer. I’ve been at that other side once, it really feels “scaaariee” when we’re a christian, feels like He’s gonna suddenly pop up out of the thin air with a flamey trident and an evil laughter “muhwhahahahah” while approaching to perform a bone-crushing bear hug (in reality, He’s too busy with His own cosmic businesses to keep performing to we the hominids at the Pale Blue Dot when someone says His name out loud here in this quadrant of the universe, and He doesn’t have a trident or a trisula, these are Poseidon’s and Shiva’s departments, respectively). Sad thing most christians don’t know about their own Isaiah 34:14, so they would be clueless when/if someone were to say out loud “Ave Lilith” (or, even better, “Renich Viesa Avage Lilith Lirach”)… An idea of which I leave here as a suggestion to Iowa, by the way.
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My mother was a lifelong devout catholic and always described satan as simply a shorthand for the absence of good rather than a powerful entity. Though I guess she was pretty progressive.
IMO if your conception of god exists primarily in contrast to a powerful demon, you’re kind of just building your life around a demon.
Oh hell yeah, you’re making it sound cool
Also Satan is not in the bible, it’s fan fiction from Dante a thousand years later.