#836 - Should the State Ban Satanist Statues?

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, Trent examines the debate surrounding the Satanist statue in Iowa's state capitol and whether demands to have it removed could backfire on Catholics. Support this podcast: https://trenthornpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologists and speaker
0:10.8	Trin Horn. And there's been a lot of debate on social media last week about a
0:16.3	Satanist statue in the Iowa State Capitol. It just finished being on
0:21.4	display for two weeks.
0:23.3	So here's one news story covering the issue
0:26.4	to kind of give you the foundation
0:28.1	of what I want to talk about today.
0:29.3	An Iowa lawmaker is calling on Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds
0:32.2	to take down a display inside the
0:34.2	State Capitol. The satanic temple of Iowa set up its holiday display back in
0:38.8	December on or I should say on December 2nd raising a lot of eyebrows.
0:43.0	A spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Administrative Services
0:46.0	says the group applied for this spot and met all the requirements.
0:50.0	But in his newsletter this week,
0:52.0	State Representative Brad Sherman called for its removal.
0:55.5	He claims the preamble to the Iowa Constitution refers to a supreme being, which is God.
1:00.9	Sherman says, with Satan being an enemy of God, the display is uncommon. is December. Okay, so after I made this episode, a Christian later tore the satanic altar down on
1:16.8	December 14th.
1:18.4	I'll comment on that later in this episode, but I just want to add that point here for
1:22.2	context.
1:23.0	So for the rest of the episode, my commentary was made
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