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http://time.com/3972713/detroit-satanic-statue-baphomet/

U.S. <http://time.com/us/> Culture <http://time.com/tag/culture/> Hundreds
Gather for Unveiling of Satanic Statue in Detroit

   - Nash Jenkins <http://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/> @pnashjenkins
   <https://twitter.com/pnashjenkins>

July 27, 2015
   Matt Anderson The bronze monument was unveiled by the Satanic Temple in
Detroit on July 25, 2015 The "largest public satanic ceremony in history"

A little before midnight on Saturday,* a crowd of around 700 gathered in an
old industrial warehouse* a few blocks from the Detroit River* for *what
they’d been told was *the “largest public satanic ceremony in history.”
Most of them professed to be adherents of Satanism,* that loosely organized
squad of the occult that defines itself as a religious group. Others came
simply because they were curious. After all, Satanists exist in the popular
psyche as those who casually sacrifice goats and impregnate Mia Farrow with
Lucifer’s child; if this ceremony was indeed unprecedentedly big, who knew
what could be in store?

The reality of the event — and of the contemporary Satanic movement at
large — was tamer, and, if the Facebook pictures
<https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.393930954149229.1073741833.252108578331468&type=3>
speak the truth, harmlessly festive: a cross between an underground rave
and a meticulously planned Halloween party. *They were there to publicly
unveil
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/26/us-usa-michigan-satanic-idUSKCN0Q009F20150726>
a colossal bronze statue of Baphomet*, the goat-headed wraith who, after
centuries of various appropriations, is *now the totem of contemporary
Satanism.* The pentagram, that familiar logo of both orthodox Satanists and
disaffected teens, originated as a rough outline of Baphomet’s head.

The statue itself is impressive: almost nine feet tall, and weighing in at
around a ton. The horned idol sits on a throne adorned with a pentagram,
but it is the idol’s wings, and not his chair, that curiously evoke the
Iron Throne
<http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Throne?file=Iron_throne.jpg> from
a certain celebrated HBO fantasy series. He has the jarring horns of a
virile ram but the biceps of a guy who lifts four or five times a week. His
legs, which are crossed, end not in feet but in hooves. It might seem more
menacing if not for the two bronze-statue children standing on either side
of him — a girl on his left; a boy on his right; both are looking up at him
earnestly.

“Baphomet contains binary elements symbolizing a reconciliation of
opposites, emblematic of the willingness to embrace, and even celebrate
differences,” Jex Blackmore, who organized the unveiling, told TIME late
Sunday night. In a sense, the statue is a stress test of American
plurality: at what point does religious freedom make the people
uncomfortable?

Blackmore directs the Detroit chapter of the Satanic Temple, one of the few
coherent organizations in a field that’s otherwise disorganized and
dogmatically nebulous. The Satanic Temple has chapters in Florida and
Finland, in Italy and Minneapolis. Its headquarters are in New York, but
the Detroit office is its first and largest outpost. Blackmore — who, by
the way, uses a pseudonym for safety reasons — grew up in the Detroit
metropolitan area and returned to the city to work with the Satanic Temple
after attending a lecture on Satanism at Harvard.

*Asked whether her group is a religious organization (or rather an
anti-religious organization) she explains that it’s less of a church and
more of an affinity group, built around what she repeatedly refers to as
“Satanic principles.*” It’s not the dogma you might expect. To quote from
the group’s website:

*The Satanic Temple holds to the basic premise that undue suffering is bad,
and that which reduces suffering is good. We do not believe in symbolic
“evil.”*

Most vitally, though, the group does not “promote a belief in a personal
Satan.” *By their logic, Satan is an abstraction*, or, as Nancy Kaffer wrote
for
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/17/can-the-satanic-temple-save-america.html>*The
Daily Beast
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/17/can-the-satanic-temple-save-america.html>
*last year, “a literary figure, not a deity — *he stands for rationality,
for skepticism, for speaking truth to power, even at great personal cost.”*

*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. *

“We chose Baphomet because of its contemporary relation to the figure of
Satan and find its symbolism to be appropriate if displayed alongside a
monument representing another faith,” Blackmore said.

The monument she refers to is a six-foot marble slab engraved with the Ten
Commandments, controversially situated on the grounds of the Oklahoma State
Capitol. In 2012, state representative Mike Ritze fronted $10,000 out of
his own pocket to have the marker installed in the shadow of the capitol’s
dome, prompting the ire of those who believed it flagrantly violated the
separation of church and state. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the
state of Oklahoma; the Satanic Temple fought fire with fire. If the
Christians could chisel their credo onto public property, the argument
went, why couldn’t they?

The state didn’t agree, and rejected the Satanic Temple’s petition to place
Baphomet’s statute on legislative property. The point is now moot, though: *a
month ago, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the Ten Commandments
monument violated the state constitution, a judgment that will probably
stick in spite of an obstinate governor.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/oklahoma-ten-commandments_n_7747278.html>*

It seems there are battles left to fight, though. A Detroit pastor
described the unveiling of the statue as “a welcome home party for evil.” A
Catholic activism group in the city actively encouraged people to attend
mass at a local cathedral to speak out against the statue — a pray-in, if
you will. Meanwhile, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson recently signed a
bill that will put the Ten Commandments on a similar monument on the
grounds of the State Capitol in Little Rock. The Satanic Temple may be
planning a road trip.
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