Links of the Day: Satan Statues, Baby Owls and What You Missed This Weekend

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  A Baphomet Satanist statue was publicly unveiled in Detroit

  
  
  
  According to Time magazine:
  
  

  A little before midnight on Saturday, a crowd of around 700 gathered in an old industrial warehouse a few blocks from the Detroit River for what they'd been told was the "largest public satanic ceremony in history." Most of them professed to be adherents of Satanism, that loosely organized squad of the occult that defines itself as a religious group. Others came simply because they were curious.

  
  
  The nine-foot-tall statute was originally designed and created to sit beside the Oklahoma statehouse's Ten Commandment monument, but now might travel to Arkansas. The Guardian said:
  
  

  Jex Blackmore, director of the Satanic Temple Detroit chapter, said temple members planned to transport the sculpture to Arkansas, where earlier this year the governor signed a bill authorizing a Ten Commandments monument on the State Capitol's grounds.
  
  The Temple had unsuccessfully applied to have the statue placed near a Ten Commandments monument installed in 2012 on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds. The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently ruled the Ten Commandments monument violates a section of the state constitution that bans the use of state property for the benefit of a religion.

  
  
  But for the time being, people in Detroit seemed to love it.
  
  
  Via Time
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  In very similar news, a baby owl stared down a sheriff's deputy

  
  
  Almost as chilling as a nine-foot-tall statue of satan holding little children.
  
  Here's another shot of the action:
  
  
  Via Boulder County BOCC

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