Okay, so I had to be neutral in that headline so Facebook wouldn't nuke us...

BUT CAN ANYONE SAY BASED?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, it's not "nice."

And I'm not out here saying that breaking the law is always a godly thing to do.

And in a decent society, we wouldn't have to topple goat-devil statues.

But we live in a society where goat-devil statues are sitting in our Capitol buildings and pastors defend it.

But I'm sure a few people out there will say "HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT THAN ISIS?"

Well, for one, the ISIS types don't just topple statues - they tend to behead people who think differently than them. This guy didn't do that.

Cassidy said in comments exclusively provided to The Sentinel that he destroyed the shrine on Thursday in order to "awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government."

"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," Cassidy told The Sentinel. "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."

Cassidy turned himself into police officers present in the Iowa Capitol, who confirmed that the Satanic Temple of Iowa desires to press charges. The Sentinel obtained a complaint and affidavit which said Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief.

"I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged," Cassidy continued. "My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted."

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I'm sure y'all will have a good conversation about idols, authority, and religious freedom in the comments, but Imma leave this passage about King Josiah of Israel right here for ya:

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images. Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he chopped down the shrines that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali and on their surrounding mountain shrines. He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the shrines throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.

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