Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

So, after much fanfare, of a sort, the Satanic Temple unveiled its ugly bronze Baphomet statue in Detroit. Hundreds of people attended an anti-Baphomet statue protest at an area Catholic church, while others were picking up their special tickets to attend the unveiling at a specific location revealed only to them.

While I thought it worth mentioning as a news item for Christians, I don’t really have much to say about it. For one thing, I just don’t take it seriously; I mean, how could you? The attached article contains a brief video of the “unveiling,” and if you watch it, you’ll see what I mean.

The Satanic Temple is now indicating that it desires the final resting place of its statue to be on the grounds of the Arkansas statehouse; there is a monument of the Ten Commandments that’s planned for that site, and so the Satanic Temple sees its Baphomet figure as a perfect companion to a monument of the Ten Commandments, apparently.

This is what I’m talking about; the idea for the creation of such a statue is clearly not an organic one, in the truest sense - the Satanic Temple did not decide to create this statue independently of events of the day, and solely out of love and respect for the figure portrayed by it. The motivations of the Satanic Temple’s effort are simply to be antagonistic and shocking, which are really pretty juvenile bases for doing anything, if that’s all you have…which seems to be the case here.