Who Is Michael Cassidy? Man Tears Down ‘Satanic’ Statue At Iowa Capitol

Michael Cassidy Tore Down ‘Satanic’ Statue At Iowa Capitol

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Michael Cassidy, a former military officer, beheaded the ‘satanic’ statue at the Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines on Thursday. According to The Sentinel, Cassidy pushed over and decapitated the statue of Baphomet and discarded the head of the statue into the trash, and then proceeded to turn himself in to the police.

Baphomet is an invented pagan or gnostic idol or deity that the Templars were accused of worshipping and that was later embraced by various occult and mystical writers.

The statue had been placed there by members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa after receiving permission from the building’s authorities.

His Call To Christians

Cassidy destroyed the altar on Thursday to “awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government,” according to the outlet.

“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimisation of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy said.

“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.”

Cassidy turned himself in to officers present in the building. The Satanic Temple of Iowa is seeking to press charges and Cassidy has been charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief.

“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” he said to The Sentinel. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”

Cassidy had previously ran for Congress in the state of Mississippi and had also served as a Navy pilot.

He is currently the Republican nominee for House District 45.

He just posted this message on X, a verse from the Bible:

Authored by Feba Bovas