If you are worried that a bull-statue is a Satanic symbol, the odds are very high that you think that Israel must be encouraged to conquer from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates, so that then the monstrous powers of Gog and Magog will attack and destroy them, as payback for and as a demonstration to the world of God’s wrath at them for their sin of rejecting Jesus Christ.
Such people are unlikely to make good judgments about Middle East issues. Perhaps half of Trump State Department political appointees are such people.
Via Dan Drezner:
Marc Caputo: Ba’al Out: Top Diplomat’s Worry About Pagan God Elicits Eye Rolls : ‘The second-most powerful man at the State Department put the brakes on a U.S. international exhibit featuring a bull statue because he worried it might look like Baal, a pagan god some associate with Satanic child sacrifice. The anecdote illustrates the quirky interests of Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau…. The bull statue was put on hold as State officials spent the last few weeks debating how to make it both interesting and non-Satanic. “It’s just totally weird stuff and it’s really indicative of the guy,” a State Department official said. “Literally, no one thinks about Baal unless they’re spending way too much time online, which Landau is,” a different U.S. official lamented. “It’s like an episode of Veep. Someone should tell him this is a Western bull, not a Near East bull,” a third U.S. official said…
who comments: “Remember: when it comes to Trump’s foreign policy and national security team, it’s incompetents all the way down”.
We won’t even get into the fact that in the most ancient religions of Canaan and Israel, the bull is primarily a symbol of God Most High, not of the subordinate Ba’al Haddad
Golden Calf!!!! Damnit!!!
My old horse club, the mounted patrol of San Mateo County, sponsored a 4th of July youth rodeo with calf riding, bull riding, calf roping, barrel racing, pole bending and kids chasing piglets. Fun times but very satanish. The kids were beautiful.
Makes me think of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union where a Christian Zionist President is intent on creating the conditions for the Second Coming and the foreign policy agencies are working on making that happen.