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===Arkansas State Capitol exhibition=== |
===Arkansas State Capitol exhibition=== |
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On August 16, 2018, the statue was displayed |
On August 16, 2018, the statue was displayed on a flatbed truck parked in front of the [[Arkansas State Capitol]] building for several hours<ref>{{cite web|title=A satanic idol goes to the Arkansas Capitol building|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/08/17/a-satanic-idols-3-year-journey-to-the-arkansas-capitol-building/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.89ecbeb541f0|work=[[Washington Post]]|accessdate=August 21, 2018}}</ref>. Satanic Temple members claimed the event was in protest of a [[Ten Commandments]] monument already on the grounds.<ref>{{cite web|title=Satanic temple sparks uproar by unveiling statue of goat-headed, winged creature called Baphomet in Arkansas state capitol|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/satanic-temple-arkansas-state-capitol-little-rock-baphomet-jason-rapert-ten-commandments-a8495576.html|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=August 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arkansas/articles/2018-08-16/satanic-temple-unveils-baphomet-statue-at-arkansas-capitol|title=USNews|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 05:07, 22 August 2018
| Baphomet | |
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 The Temple's Baphomet statue, as unveiled in Detroit in 2015[1] | |
| Medium | Bronze sculpture |
| Subject | Baphomet |
In 2015, The Satanic Temple unveiled a 9-foot (2.7 m) tall bronze sculpture depicting Baphomet, in Detroit, Michigan. The group attempted to have the statue installed alongside the Ten Commandments Monument in Oklahoma. The one-ton sculpture shows Baphomet, with a human body and a goat's head, with a boy and a girl.[2]
History
In 2014, The Satanic Temple began a crowdsourcing campaign on Indiegogo for a Satanic monument depicting Baphomet with two children, with the intention to display this monument at the Oklahoma State Capitol.[3] The group's fundraising page stated that the statue was to be erected in response to a then-present Ten Commandments Monument installed by Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze in 2012.[3] The following year, in 2015, the satanic monument was unveiled at the Detroit chapter of The Satanic Temple amidst protests by religious organizations.[4] Vice reported that the 700 attendees at the unveiling ceremony had to sell their souls to Satan in order to receive a ticket, a tactic that the Temple stated was done in order to "keep away some of the more radical superstitious people who would try to undermine the event."[1][5]
Time noted that "the group does not 'promote a belief in a personal Satan.' By their logic, Satan is an abstraction, ... 'a literary figure, not a deity — he stands for rationality, for skepticism, for speaking truth to power, even at great personal cost.' Time also commented on the statue's unveiling, writing "Call it Libertarian Gothic, maybe — some darker permutation of Ayn Rand's crusade for free will. One witnesses in The Satanic Temple militia a certain knee-jerk reaction to encroachments upon personal liberties, especially when those encroachments come with a crucifix in hand. The Baphomet statue is the Satanic Temple’s defiant retort du jour."[5]
Arkansas State Capitol exhibition
On August 16, 2018, the statue was displayed on a flatbed truck parked in front of the Arkansas State Capitol building for several hours[6]. Satanic Temple members claimed the event was in protest of a Ten Commandments monument already on the grounds.[7][8]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Inside the Satanic Temple's Secret Baphomet Monument Unveiling". VICE. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ Reuters (2015-07-27). "Satanic Temple Unveils Baphomet Sculpture In Detroit". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b "Put a Satanic Monument at OK Capitol". Indiegogo. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ "Protesters: Don't turn Detroit over to Satanists". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Nash. "Hundreds Gather for Unveiling of Satanic Statue in Detroit". TIME.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ "A satanic idol goes to the Arkansas Capitol building". Washington Post. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
- ^ "Satanic temple sparks uproar by unveiling statue of goat-headed, winged creature called Baphomet in Arkansas state capitol". The Independent. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
- ^ "USNews".