Satanic High Priest Calls OK Monument ‘Crude, Pedophilic’
Church of Satan calls proposed monument “crude” and “pedophilic”
By: Jay Dillon, Senior Digital Content Manager
As the debate over whether followers of Satan can build a monument to sit next to the Ten Commandments at the Capitol, another leader of Satanists is criticizing the monument.
On Monday, the New York-based Satanic Temple released an artist’s rendering of the monument which would be built next to the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma Statehouse. The statue features a horned demon sitting in a pentagram-adorned throne with children next to it. A spokesman says the group has formally submitted its application to a panel that oversees the Capitol grounds.
Friday, the high priest from the Church of Satan criticized the monument calling it “crude”, “ugly”, and “pedophilic”:
“The statue is crudely designed and ugly to me and seems pedophilic, since the caduceus between the goat’s legs is a phallic symbol. Having children reaching towards a being with an exposed symbolic penis seems to imply that Satanism represents the same situation which has plagued the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches for some time: child abuse. The image appears to show the goat’s left hand possibly caressing the male child. Revolting.