{"id":150842,"date":"2023-12-16T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150842"},"modified":"2023-12-16T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T12:51:29","slug":"navy-veteran-topples-and-beheads-a-statue-in-a-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150842","title":{"rendered":"Navy veteran topples and beheads a statue in a state capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150843 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com-500x250.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com-600x300.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Michael-Cassidy-damages-Baphomet-statue-by-Post-Millennial-The-Sentinel-and-givesendgo-dot-com.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa received permission from the state capitol to display a statue of Baphomet. Michael Cassidy, Navy veteran, decided that he was going to act on his religious convictions. Cassidy said that he wanted to &#8220;take out the blasphemous&#8221; idol. He turned himself in after committing the act. The Satanic Temple of Iowa is looking to press charges against Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From the Post Millennial<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Satanic altar erected in the Iowa Capitol building has been torn down and beheaded by a Christian and former military officer.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Sentinel, Michael Cassidy pushed over and decapitated the statue of Baphomet, which was placed in the building by members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa after receiving permission, and discarded the head of the statue into the trash.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy told the outlet that he destroyed the altar on Thursday to &#8220;awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,&#8221; Cassidy said. &#8220;Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy turned himself in to officers who were present in the building, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa seeks to press charges. Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,&#8221; Cassidy said. &#8220;My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Post Millennial has more information <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-satanic-altar-at-iowa-state-capitol-destroyed-by-christian-veteran?utm_campaign=64487\">here<\/a>. The Sentinel provides more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicsentinel.com\/articles\/exclusive-christian-tears-down-and-beheads-satan-shrine-in-iowa-capitol\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa received permission from the state capitol to display a &hellip; <a title=\"Navy veteran topples and beheads a statue in a state capitol\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150842\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy veteran topples and beheads a statue in a state capitol<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,13,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-society","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}