Al’s Christmas Tea: Satanic Displays in State Capitols Raise Ire; New Discovery Raises Eyebrows Over Spread of Christianity in Europe

Welcome back in for Al’s Christmas Tea, our chance to stop and sample some of the stories of the season.

Satanists Try to Spoil Christmas Celebration

The Satanic Temple has set up its “first ever” display in the Minnesota State Capitol building — in other words, right under the nose of radical leftist Gov. Tim Walz.

Minnesota satanists say they have set up their “first ever holiday display” at the Minnesota Capitol Building pic.twitter.com/RECUQ3cQEK

— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) December 15, 2024

Walz says he won’t push to remove the deliberate religious provocation because it’s protected by the First Amendment. “Is there anything Tim Walz won’t do to insult Minnesotans?” state Rep Tom Emmer posted on X.

According to Gateway Pundit, not one Democrat has disavowed the display.

The faithful aren’t rolling over, though. Today at noon, the Minnesota Family Council held a prayer vigil on the capitol steps in response to the display.

The Satanist group set up a similar display in New Hampshire near the capitol building in Concord, only to see it quickly destroyed. In that case, a Democrat did step up — state Rep. Ellen Read. Except she only did it to call for a new display to be built — and to admit that she’s a member of the Satanic Temple.

In fact, Catholic News Agency reports, Read came up with the idea for the Satanists to have a display so the Knights of Columbus’s annual Christmas scene would not be the only one at the capitol this month. Ah. By that logic, the Klu Klux Klan should be able to display something during Black History Month. Let’s see how well that goes over.

Concord Mayor Byron Champlin wants no part of the satanic display. “I opposed the permit because I believe the request was made not in the interest of promoting religious equity but in order to drive an anti-religious political agenda, and because I do not respond well to legal extortion, the threat of litigation,” he said at a council meeting last week, according to Fox News. “Some on social media have celebrated the Satanic Temple’s display as a victory for religious pluralism and a reflection of our growing diversity as a community. I disagree with this. This is about an out-of-state organization cynically promoting its national agenda at the expense of the Concord community.”

Last year, a man named Michael Cassidy beheaded a statue of Baphomet that the Satanic Temple had erected in Iowa’s state capitol. He pled guilty in May to criminal mischief. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree,” he said after his arrest. “And so I acted.”

Archeologists Uncover Oldest Evidence of Christianity North of the Alps

Six years ago, in Frankfurt, Germany, a scroll was uncovered inside a “mysterious” silver amulet — 18 lines engraved on a thin piece of foil dating back 1,800 years. Scientists using CT technology have finally been able to digitally unravel the scroll and read it. What they found upends what was previously known about the spread of Christianity into Europe.

The 18 lines of the so-called “Frankfurt Silver Inscription” are a glorious praise of “Jesus Christ, Son of God!”

(In the name?) of St. Titus.
Holy, holy, holy!
Is the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God!
The lord of the world
resists to the best of his [ability?]
all seizures(?)/setbacks(?).
The god(?) grants well-being
Admission.
This rescue device(?) protects
the person who
surrenders to the will
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
since before Jesus Christ
bend all knees: the heavenly ones,
the earthly and
the subterranean, and every tongue
confess (to Jesus Christ).

Notice the near-verbatim quoting of Philippians 2:10-11, a letter the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Philippi.

Dating back to between 230 and 270 A.D., the scroll is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps ever discovered. Not-the-Bee summarized: “Sometime around 200 years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, prior to the Christianization of the Roman Empire, Christianity was making its way into Europe.”

The discovery is described by the Frankfurt Archeology Museum as “one of the most important testimonies of early Christianity worldwide.”

Until now, says Archeology News, proof of Christianity north of the Alps was limited to the fourth century A.D.

Making the find even more unique: The inscription is completely in Latin, and contains no references to Judaism or paganism.

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Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.

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