Christian Military Veteran Beheads Satanic Statue in State Capitol: ‘My Conscience Is Held Captive to the Word of God’
A former Navy pilot says he broke the laws of Iowa on Thursday to obey the laws of God. Michael Cassidy vandalized a display put up in the Iowa state Capitol by the Satanic Temple, according to The Sentinel . The…
A former Navy pilot says he broke the laws of Iowa on Thursday to obey the laws of God.
Michael Cassidy vandalized a display put up in the Iowa state Capitol by the Satanic Temple, according to The Sentinel. The display featured a ram’s head on a caped mannequin.
Cassidy took off the ram’s head, tossed it in a trash can, and knocked the statue over. He faces a fourth-degree criminal mischief charge.
“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy told The Sentinel. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”
His words recall those of Martin Luther in his defense at the Diet of Worms in 1521, when he said, “My conscience is taken captive by God’s word.”
Cassidy said his goal was to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.”
“Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water,” he said.