Satan statue unveiled in Detroit
Source: WERG
DETROIT — While the South argues over statues of Confederate veterans, Detroit’s statue controversy revolves around a different figure — Satan.
Satanic Temple had said it would unveil the statue Saturday at a Detroit location that only people with tickets would know. Hundreds lined up Saturday evening to get the tickets as Christian protesters rallied nearby.
Several hundred people attended a Mass at a Detroit Catholic church to protest the 8-foot-tall bronze statue of Satan.
Earlier Saturday, The Detroit News said between 200 and 250 people attended Mass at St. Joseph Church in a protest against the Satanic event. The group had hoped to place the statue at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City until Oklahoma’s Supreme Court banned religious displays on Capitol grounds.
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They actually went through with it! 
Although the public practice of Satanism began with the founding of The Church of Satan in 1966, historical precedents exist: a group called the Ophite Cultus Satanas was founded in Ohio by Herbert Arthur Sloane in 1948.[2]
The Church of Satan rejects the legitimacy of any other organizations who claim to be Satanists, dubbing them reverse-Christians, pseudo-Satanists or Devil worshipers.[10] Today, the Church of Satan promotes itself as the only authentic representation of Satanism, and it routinely publishes materials underscoring this contention.[11]
The Temple of Set was consecrated in Santa Barbara, California during the summer solstice of June 1975, by Michael A. Aquino, in a "greater black magic" ritual ...
The Temple was founded by members of the Church of Satan,[5] who left that organization in 1975 because of administrative and philosophical disagreements with its founder Anton Szandor LaVey.[5] Michael Aquino had joined the Church of Satan in 1969 and had risen rapidly in the Church's hierarchy.[4] Aquino has stated that he believed LaVey to not be merely a charismatic leader but to have been actually appointed by Satan himself (referring to this charismatic authority as the "Infernal Mandate"
to found the Church.[6] After the split of 1975, Aquino believed LaVey had lost the mandate, which the "Prince of Darkness" then transferred to Aquino and a new organization, the Temple of Set.[6]
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Baphomet was a creation of the Knights Templar when they were guarding conquered lands during the Crusades. While in Syria and Palestine, they came into regular and sustained contact with Sufi Muslims. Abu fihama(t) is one of the Sufi names for God, and simply means "Father of Understanding (knowledge)" It's well understood that the Knights Templar were all well-versed in Arabic and most spoke it on a daily basis while they spent years in the middle east. It's fairly natural that they incorporated some Arabic into their native languages and traditions. Abu fihima(t) became bufihimat became bafohomet. It was simply a reference to God in a language other than their own (and, from a religious standpoint, no different than when a modern Christian calls Jesus "the Savior" .
The fantastic descriptions of "baphomet idols" with three faces or horns wasn't part of Templar worship, and only came up from people being tortured to death. The inconsistencies in their descriptions makes it very clear that they weren't referencing the same thing, and that they were just making things up to end the torture. If they'd all described the same idol, it would have been one thing, but there was almost NO consistency between the descriptions of Baphomet given by most Templars.
Essentially, the concept of Baphomet as Satan was the creation of the Christian church during the destruction of the Templar order. It was a political tool used to discredit them, by associating their use of a "foreign" word for God with the enemy of Christendom. From a historical standpoint, it doesn't appear that there was ANY genuine association between Baphomet and the occult until the various mystical and wiccan movements started using it in the 1800's. That use of the symbol largely traces back to a single Italian author who wrote an anti-Mason tome in the early 1800's, connecting the Masons to the Templars and then creating a largely fictional history of Baphomet worship within that order. The goal, of course, was to imply that Masons were Satanists. That book led to others, and the concept spread from there.
All of this, of course, is why the Satanic Temple uses Baphomet as their symbol. Baphomet is not only a "fake deity", but he's an easily provable fake deity. Because the Satanic Temple exists to promote skepticism and rational thought, using a symbol that clearly demonstrates just how fake and silly religions can get is the perfect exemplification of their "faith".
