The Satanic Temple’s Baphomet Statue Unveiling Marred by Threats

When the Ten Commandments statue was sitting on the Oklahoma Capitol grounds, The Satanic Temple built a monument to counter it. It was a nearly-9-foot-tall, bronze, goat-headed Baphomet, sitting cross-legged and flanked by two smiling kids:

It included this statement on the front:

“The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.”

The back of the statue had a passage from Lord Byron’s Cain along with a quotation by William Blake:

Then who was t...