Last week, a couple were threatened with fines of $25 a day by their homeowners’ association unless they removed a four-foot wreath shaped like a peace symbol from the front of their house.
The fines have been dropped, and the three-member board of the association has resigned, according to an e-mail message sent to residents on Monday.
...A board member later told a newspaper that he thought the familiar circle with angled lines was also, perhaps, a sign of the devil.
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Oh you silly Fundies, don't you know that the peace sign wreath is to PROTECT the house from the Devil (it's an old Amish custome, yeah, that's it, that's the ticket!!!).
That's good policy, fine people for displaying an obvious peace symbol because you thought it was PERHAPS a sign of the "devil." And, yet, s/he probably holds a job, drives, votes and has children. Eek!
The board member in question who was, perhaps, a little STUPID , is in fact a man, Papabear. I heard this one earlier this week, but in the previous versions he fired 5 board members when they refused to support his intolerance. This whole "resigning in shame (protest?)" thing is a new one for me.
And so what if it was a symbol of the devil? Let's say they did worship the devil...so what? I doubt there would have been any $25 a day fines tossed around for garish christmas displays. Discrimination, pure and simple...
I just read the full article. Man, the people who initially complained about this are finding themselves in a peace-sign purgatory right now -- the whole town has become a hotbed of peace-sign making, from handmade signs placed in windows to gigantic ones being tramped out in snowy fields to a huge peace-sign wreath that will be displayed by the town on a bell tower! Wow, talk about a backfire!
I've actually med a fundie who told me the same thing about the peace sign being a satannic symbol. Suprisingly enough it wasn't some batshit insane off-the-wall accusation but made some sense (in a symbology/theology context).
Ville Vicios: The argument presented is if you know the facts exactly a "batshit insane off-the-wall accusation", the symbol is the CND sign and is CND in semaphor it was created by such well known statn worshippers as Bertrand Russel and his associates. The broken cross allegation is nicely dealt with in the middle portion of Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis". Theological bull can't stand in the face of facts.
Yeah, let's not worry about the war in Iraq, global warming, the exploding prison population or the number of hungry people in the USA. Let's concentrate on possibly satanic images on home christmas wreaths. That will show the heathens that christians really mean business.
So Satan is the prince of Peace now?
Dang, every time the fundamentalists bring up this Satan fellow, he sounds better and better!
"The fines have been dropped, and the three-member board of the association has resigned, according to an e-mail message sent to residents on Monday."
You'd have though that people would learn from examples such as this, to say nothing of Dover Area School District's board just a year later.
Don't fuck with the law, right-wing fundies. The consequences of defying Romans 13:1-5 is the least of your problems.
"...A board member later told a newspaper that he thought the familiar circle with angled lines was also, perhaps, a sign of the devil."
What about those laurel wreaths , that - along with the gold, silver & bronze medals - the US's athletes were presented with at the 2004 Athens Olympics?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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