Satanic Temple To Install Blasphemous ‘Baby Baphomet’ Nativity Among Illinois Capitol Holiday Display During Christmas
December 21, 2021 by SkyWatch Editor
The Satanic Temple is installing a “Baby Baphomet” statue among the Illinois Capitol Rotunda holiday display. The statue will be installed on December 20th at 1 pm. In a press release about the Baphomet statue, the group said that it is in celebration of the Satanic holiday Sol Invictus, which, like Christmas, takes place on the 25th of December. “The new display, created by artist Chris P. Andres, depicts the Satanic deity Baphomet as a swaddling babe,” the Satanic Temple said in their statement. According to a report from the State Journal-Register, Paprocki said at the nativity unveiling that satanic displays “should have no place in this Capitol or any other place.” “Mocking the millions of Christians in the state of Illinois and billions around the world by depicting the baby Jesus this Christmas with the ‘satanic deity’ Baphomet is the very definition of evil and causing division, but that is to be expected from an organization that is in existence to troll people of faith,” said Andrew Hansen, a spokesperson for the diocese, according to their report… (READ MORE)
