Michigan Lawmaker Wants To Troll Satanic Temple With Nativity Scene

[Capt. Obvious]

A Republican state senator in Michigan heard that a Detroit chapter of a Satantic Temple is planning to set up a holiday display at the state Capitol. So the lawmaker, state Sen. Rick Jones, wants to counter that display with a nativity scene.

"I'm a little outraged that a Satanic group has decided to steal a Christian holiday," Jones told MLive. "…As a Christian, I think it's important that we respond to this."

The Satanic Temple, according to MLive, is planing to put up a display that features a serpent, cross, and "secular message" on the north lawn of the Capitol. The display is supposed to stay from Dec. 21 to 23.

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Jones said the whole situation made him "almost as angry as when [then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)] tried to call the Christmas tree a holiday tree, which she later reversed after much protest" in 2006.

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Blackmore also told MLive that her temple doesn't worship Satan. Instead it just tries to "separate superstition from deeply held religious beliefs."

TPM

[cbayer]

1. Taking bets on who is the most juvenile in this scenario.

Doesn't matter who you bet on, you will win.

[Iggo]

2. Well there's your problem, Mr Jones. You can't tell the difference between a temple and the Capitol.

[MisterP]

3. and then the nativity scene erected at a Satanic display to get revenge for a Satanic

display being erected at a nativity scene will get a Satanic display of its own, and

it's cupcakes and strippers all the way down

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Well, that sounds better than turtles.