Secularists continue their Magical Tin-Ear PR Tour in Detroit, Michigan.

How do I put this gently? If you think that this should be the public face of secularism…

The Satanic Temple had said it would unveil the [Baphomet] statue on Saturday at a Detroit location that only people with tickets would know about. Hundreds lined up on Saturday evening to get the tickets as Christian protesters rallied nearby.

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The Satanic Temple now says it wants to erect it outside Arkansas’ statehouse, where a Ten Commandments monument also is planned.

…you’re doing it wrong.

Let me explain how that scenario above plays out.

• Step One.  The  Baphomet statue gets erected in Arkansas.
• Step Two. The Baphomet statue promptly gets firebombed.
• Step Three. The cops pronounce themselves baffled.
• Step Four. Dumb people complain about Step Two and Step Three until somebody in the secularist movement with half a brain realizes that it’s not smart to officially align your movement with Satan. And it doesn’t matter how many likes the statue got on Facebook.

Seriously: have your fun, sure; sell tickets to your blasphemous unveiling, fine; tick off the Catholics, whatever, we’re used to being mocked by smarter people than you*. But doing stuff like this does in fact make one of the sides involved look like clueless jerks. It’s just that it doesn’t make the Christians look like jerks.

Via… sorry, didn’t remember to keep the link handy.

Moe Lane

PS: Entertainingly, when I started to type in ‘Baphomet’ in the Tags section WordPress offered me ‘Westboro Baptist Church.’  …Possibly a little unkind of WordPress, but I see where it was going with that.

*Whose culture and written works were, ironically, mostly lost to history – except for the stuff that we kept around in our monasteries. Who’s laughing now, Lucian of Samosata**?

**I’m actually kind of hoping for a Classical expert to show up and tell us how this is all wrong.  I mean, just how often does a Classics major get to use his or her major, these days?