{"id":47529,"date":"2014-12-24T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_irreverent_satanist_decorations_aim_to_counter_nativity_displays\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:04:57","slug":"wsj_irreverent_satanist_decorations_aim_to_counter_nativity_displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47529","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Irreverent \u201d\u02dcSatanist\u2019 Decorations Aim to Counter Nativity Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the holidays a new display went up this week in the Florida Capitol building: a diorama depicting an angel falling into the flames of hell, courtesy of an organization called the Satanic Temple.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge, Mass.-based secularist group had sought to place a similar installation in Florida last year, but state officials rejected it as \u201cgrossly offensive.\u201d\u009d This year, after the advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State threatened to sue on Satanic Temple\u2019s behalf, the diorama was approved.<\/p>\n<p>The display is one of several irreverent decorations aimed at countering a Nativity scene in the Capitol. Others include a pile of noodles from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and a stack of beer cans by blogger Chaz Stevens honoring the parody holiday Festivus from the TV show \u201cSeinfeld.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dueling-displays-in-capitals-1419381751\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the holidays a new display went up this week in the Florida Capitol building: a diorama depicting an angel falling into the flames of hell, courtesy of an organization called the Satanic Temple. The Cambridge, Mass.-based secularist<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47529\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,42,209,425,575,187,155,151,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-atheism","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}