Michael Cassidy, the failed Mississippi state congressional candidate who traveled nearly a thousand miles to behead a Baphomet statue in the Iowa state Capitol, recently made a religious defense of his actions on X.
Interesting exegetical response to his PR stunt. He seems to reflect a group whose Christianity relies far more on cherry-picked priestly texts from the Hebrew Scriptures than from the Apostolic Scriptures. Hard to see where Jesus’s Way informs that people’s identity. Much more evocative of 19th-century sects that were based on similarly readings of ancient Israel. All order; not much Easter.
Interesting exegetical response to his PR stunt. He seems to reflect a group whose Christianity relies far more on cherry-picked priestly texts from the Hebrew Scriptures than from the Apostolic Scriptures. Hard to see where Jesus’s Way informs that people’s identity. Much more evocative of 19th-century sects that were based on similarly readings of ancient Israel. All order; not much Easter.