Satan in America

Saturday in Detroit Satan worshippers unveiled the statue that was originally supposed to go near the capitol in Oklahoma City. Details from author Joel Rosenberg:

Here are excerpts from this story<http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/07/25/group-to-unveil-satan-statue-in-detroit-during-largest-public-satanic-ceremony-in-history/>, published by the Associated Press and CBS News in Detroit:
· A group is planning to unveil an 8-foot-tall bronze statue featuring a goat-headed Satan in Detroit during a gathering that's being billed as the "largest public satanic ceremony in history."
· The Satanic Temple has said Saturday's private event will be open only to people with tickets, $25 each.
· Invitations to "The Unveiling" summoned guests to prepare for "a night of chaos, noise, and debauchery… Come dance with the Devil and experience history in the making." The event location is not being announced publicly and is known only to those with tickets.
· The group said the bronze Baphomet monument, which weighs about one ton and has never been seen before in public, "is not only an unparalleled artistic triumph, but stands as a testament to plurality and the power of collective action." The statue, which backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by statues of two young children gazing up at the creature, shows Satan with horns, hooves, wings and a beard.
· The group went on to say the unveiling event "will serve as a call-to-arms from which we'll kick off our largest fight to date in the name of individual rights to free exercise against self-serving theocrats."
· Photography is strictly prohibited at the 18-and-older event unless, of course, you're a $75 VIP ticket holder. Those partygoers will have an exclusive opportunity to be photographed seated on the Baphomet monument.....
· The statue had been planned for the state Capitol in Oklahoma City until Oklahoma's Supreme Court banned a monument of the Ten Commandments on Capitol grounds.
· Detroit was ultimately selected for the unveiling because The Satanic Temple in the city has a "strong congregation," with more than 200 registered members....

It is sobering how rapidly evil is rising in this country, how brazen, how public. We need to humble ourselves. We need to get on our knees. We need to seek Christ's forgiveness and His mercy on this country. We need to do it now, or we will face the consequences foretold in the Bible thousands of years ago.

Consider just one passage of many:

"7 At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; 8 if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it. 9 Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plant it; 10 if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it." (Jeremiah 18:7-10<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah+18&version=NASB>)

Another example of how a tiny minority (200 there in Detroit) is featured on the national news while so few positive stories are told about the millions of Christians in America. And little is said about to preponderance of Muslims overtaking Detroit to the point the police are too scared to patrol. Instead the area is under sharia law, meaning women can suffer abuse and violence.


WEEKEND: A weekend on the road. Left work Friday afternoon at five and drove north to CoolRay Field. Arrived just after the gates opened. My bobblehead friend loves Ron Gant and wanted the Gant cards the GBraves were giving away. Later I stood in line to get him to autograph the card. I'm not much of a talker but Gant chatted with me longer than the time it took him to sign the card. Something had been said about South Carolina so I said I remembered him from his Sumter days. He said the GM from Sumter was there at the park that night.

After spending all day at the airport Anna finally got a seat on the 9:45 flight that night. She's having a big time in Colorado. M returned from his week in Daytona at Passion camp where Louie spoke.

Saturday morning I cleaned upstairs and later did laundry downstairs. Cleaned some in the garage and yard and blew the drive. All the going back and forth from the outside heat and inside AC had me sneezing uncontrollably. I showered and headed back over to CoolRay.

I arrived at 5 pm and there was already 50 people in line waiting for the gates to open at six. Before I left my car I put to sunscreen, which turned out to be a good choice. I was standing next to a guy with his young son. Bobby Myers came over to say hello, then chatted with the guy behind me: Danny Wilcox, who has over 250 bobbleheads. Several people came over to congratulate him on his week old baby. Nice guy. Then I talked to a guy in a Greenville Braves cap who has traveled around to several minor league stadiums. 

When I left the GBraves games early Saturday night (to go pick Matthew, not because I was sick) I was walking to my car and I found an International League baseball a batter had fouled out of the stadium. Next time I'm gonna get my hand stamped and watch the game from the right field foul pole and chase balls hit out of the stadium.

Last Labor Day was Bobby Cox bobblehead day. Cole Hamels started and the Phillies no hit their opponent. Saturday was Bobby Cox bobblehead day. Cole Hamels started and the Phillies no hit their opponent.

Sunday morning I drove down to Macon. My mom had surgery and is doing better, though she still had pain in her shoulder. The preacher on TV in Macon was listing numerous examples of violations of religious liberty, of unprompted government officials going out of their way to unprecedentedly harass individuals trying to run their businesses according to Christian principles. 

On the drive back I so feared gridlocked traffic that I cut over to 19/41 and came up that way. Was going to get the $5.00 box deal at Taco Bell but they didn't have the special in Alpharetta. Drove up to south Forsyth to pick up M. By the time we arrived home I had driven 300 miles in the past 24 hours.

See where the Falcons just signed former FSU ballboy Red Lightning, the red-haired guy who sprints up and down the sidelines to spot the football?

The Apple desktop is having iPhoto issues, making picture posting problematic.