Sacralism versus Satanism in Iowa

https://www.christianpost.com/news/man-who-toppled-iowa-satanic-display-responds-to-critics.html

Reading the Christian Post is wearisome but often revealing. This story keeps gaining traction and yet no one seems to understand just what is happening here.

As many will know a Satanic display was put up in the Iowa Capitol building. This kind of defiance is in reality an act of provocation against the campaigns of the Christian Right. I'm not excusing it but I know why pagan people are doing this – they're trying to get a rise out of the Evangelical community which so dominates the politics of their state.

And they succeeded.

This veteran who is (as expected) painted as a 'hero' flew to the capital, went in and toppled the display. I'm not going to get caught up in his narrative and reasoning as it is immaterial to the question at hand. Personally I don't care if he's charged with vandalism or exonerated. It makes no difference to me.

The issue here is this: It was only important to him because the display was in the capitol building. Why? Because he has a sacral understanding of America. He views it is a holy land, set apart by God and as such this represents a rival claim and he was filled with religious (I did not say Christian) zeal and indignation.

In truth there are thousands of examples of Satanic monuments in government buildings and all along places like the National Mall. Many of these blasphemies even have Bible verses chiseled into them. These upset me but not for the reasons that motivated this man who has a certain zeal, but not according to knowledge.

His actions tell us one thing in very stark terms. He and those who support him lack discernment and have confused the Kingdom of Christ with the politics and claims of Babylon. He doesn't understand that putting a cross on the top of the Tower of Babel does not make the tower (or what it represents) into a Christian edifice. It's still the Tower of Babel.

America is an evil empire. To my mind, the erection of a Satanic display is entirely apropos. I don't condone it of course, but I'm certainly not going to tear it down. America is a land of abomination-monuments and lies which celebrate her countless crimes.

I do not celebrate the actions of this zealot. Instead I pity him and those who think him a hero. He accomplished nothing apart from stoking the already dangerous fire that is burning with the dark recesses of the American Right.