Denver residents demand that this airport statue be removed because it looks "Satanic"
Posted Feb 11, 2009, 1:26 PM UTC
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Happens every time. A statue comes to life for one night and roams the airport devouring the souls of the living, and suddenly it's "satanic."
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As a side note, those aren't clouds, those are souls
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Resubmitted from barneytoe's submission here -- I thought that my attached comment might be of more interest to r/atheism than to r/pics:
First, the Bible has no physical description of Satan. All the cloven hooves and pitchfork and forked tail and horns and red skin stuff is fluff that later people added. Probably, this was the physical description some other people claimed for their competing god that the early Christians weren't too thrilled with, probably Pan.
Second, a horse with in a storm with blue skin and glowing eyes doesn't even make for a great fit with that or anything other than pop "bad guy" colors.
In fact, I could rather more plausibly say that the horse looked heavenly. Psalms 18:7-11 describes Yahweh, the God of the Christians:
The earth trembled and quaked,
and the foundations of the mountains shook;
they trembled because he was angry.
Smoke rose from his nostrils;
consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coals blazed out of it.
He parted the heavens and came down;
dark clouds were under his feet.
He mounted the cherubim and flew;
he soared on the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him—
the dark rain clouds of the sky.
Yahweh was historically a storm god of the Hebrews. So that picture you're looking at there is really more-or-less what the pre-prettified God that Christians worship might have looked like -- fire coming from his face, a dark creature who rides in storms.
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You forgot to add: Fire flew from his fingertips as he rosined up his bow
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"... And he pulled his bow across the strings and it made an evil hiss ..."
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Now THAT's a god I'd worship. None of that sissy 'love-thy-neighbour' rubbish!
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The passage as a whole has King David praising Yahweh for helping him to smash his foes in battle and achieve dominion over them, so, yeah, pretty much accurate.
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I knew he was a darkie.
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I think the statue looks like a My Little Pony compared with the murals INSIDE the Denver Airport...
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Next time I fly into Denver I'm eating a some shrooms.
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So I can be two miles high? Awesome to the max
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Seriously ... WTF?
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Huge conspiracy theory about the Denver Airport.
Worth a google.
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They have a gas mask wearing Nazi stabbing a dove, and the statue looks satanic?
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stabbing it in the ass at that.
He looks more Russian...the guy not the dove.
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They should have got Joe Coleman to do some work for them.. it's on the same level!
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There are a ton conspiracy theories about Denver Airport, and I have to admit, there's some crazy stuff going on there: http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Denver_Airport.html
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Yep, I had read that website a while back, that's how I remembered the murals inside. Pretty creepy, huh?
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Holy crap...this is the first time I've ever found anyone else who has been to that site.
And your name is similar to mine.
It's 2:35 in the morning and I'm kinda freaked.
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You're the one, the one that can help me complete my programmed functions.
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I like the murals and wanted to find out more about them, so naturally I turned to Google to see if I could find some information on the artist, when they were painted, what influenced that piece of work- the usual sort of thing. What I was not looking for, but got anyway, was conspiracy theorist, Book of Revelation interpreting, pseudo-religious bullshit.
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I like.
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I was about to say that I can understand it if people do not want to have something that looks unpleasant to them. I might not like posters of planes crashing into WTC in an airport.
Now, having seen those other pictures, I guess I won't make any statements and politely ask someone to explain why they've got those pictures in an airport.
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They're supposed to be hopeful; representing humanity's triumph over war. It's a succession. It starts out with the scary ones, but ends up with the "children of the world" coming together with their weapons (swords) to be destroyed by a little German boy with a hammer and the scary Nazi looking dude on the ground, defeated: http://www.policestateplanning.com/1e514860.jpg
Not only do they have those murals, but they also have weird plaques and time capsules for the people of Denver in 2094 with Masonic symbols on them from the "New World Airport Commission".
Everybody's got their own conclusion to draw from it all, but I'll admit it's kind of a freaky place. I've been there a few times.
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Exactly -swords wrapped in British and Irish, Russian and American, and Israeli and Palestinan flags are carried by the children to be "beaten into plowshares" - a reference to a Bible quote about peace - converting swords into plows.
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"Denver residents demand that this airport statue be removed because it looks "Too Awesome""
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It's to be expected, because Denver is the opposite of awesome. Proof: it's right on the edge of the Rockies, but instead of being perched precariously on the Front Range, like a badass city would be, it sprawls boringly out on a completely flat plain, as though it were in Florida.
It's the most deliberately unawesome city in the world, which is why there's no room for this horse there.
I suggest moving the horse to Estes Park, right outside the hotel where The Shining was filmed.
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Unfortunately, only the lame made-for-t.v. remake of the Shining was filmed at the Stanley Hotel. The exteriors of Kubrick's film were done at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and the interiors were based on another hotel in Yosemite. However, they did film parts of Dumb and Dumber at the Stanley. =) /moviegeek
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I take it you don't work for the Estes Park Tourism Board!
I got my trivia confused, but still, according to this, "Stephen King wrote half of his novel in Room 217 - changed to 237 in the film - of The Stanley Hotel". So it's still a suitably awesome location for the horse.
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I take it you don't work for the Estes Park Tourism Board!
=) I used to go to highland games in Estes Park way back when. Those were fun, but largely I was underwhelmed with both Estes Park and Vail. Colorado Springs had a much better Death Metal scene. Plant this horse outside of Mosh Pit Records and face it toward Focus on the Family, IMO.
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That's where the awesome Neo Denver will be built by satanic mutants from the radioactive remains the Denverites.
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If they're going to get rid of it anyway, I'll take it for my backyard. Ought to scare the crap outa that holy roller lady who lives next door.
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I doubt it would work for long. Even crows get used to scarecrows. Christians are several times cleverer. But a sculpture with a high enough degree of awesomeness might desensitize them to non-Christian aesthetics, in a step toward acceptance.
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I love it. It looks so badass.
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I'm a Denverite and I love this statue.
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During the day it looks like a regular horse with funny-looking red eyes. Whoever took this photo is a badass.
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funny-looking red eyes.
That horse is so high.
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Same here.
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I live in Denver, and work at the airport loading the chemtrail tanks and cleaning the spray nozzles for the Rocky Mountain Sector Civilian Pacification overflights. You can't even work in the gift shops these days without Level DCX Illuminati Clearance.
They're toning down some of it, but the all-seeing eye atop the pyramid is here to stay, I'm afraid.
Novus Ordo Seclorum, and all that.
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The NWO is undertaking a vast conspiracy.. to put weird symbols in public places?
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Yes
Edit: I mean, yes the one they're all up in arms about. I share the same reservations of suggesting there is any plot.
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Do you have a link? I've been there a few times and hadn't seen anything crazy like that..
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread339860/pg1
This is a pretty good one where some guy tries to convince everybody that the German kid's sock and pant leg are actually a secret sword holster.
This page gives a pretty good rundown of the rest of the crazy.
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that's a lot of crazy
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Reciprocally, I demand all saints and Christ status to be removed and churches leveled because it looks "Goddish".
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Well, that implies that all airports are normally areas of Satan worshiping.
Oh wait-
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It's Bad Horse! the Thoroughbred of Sin!
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So make the Bad Horse gleeful Or he’ll make you his mare...
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You're saddled up; there's no recourse.
It's "Hi, Ho, Silver!" Signed: Bad Horse
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Now one thing you can't really see is the large genitals on that horse. I'm pretty sure that's making a lot of men feel bad about themselves. It would contribute.
Besides, it's a cool statue. I have a hard time seeing a noticeable group caring, just a few dozen vocal nutjobs who need to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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Just change its eye color to a light-blue and people will probably stop caring...
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like aqua?
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Well, when you take the picture like that.....
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WORSHIP IT MOTHERFUCKERS
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What the fuck is it about the Denver Airport?
Some years ago I had a boyfriend with conspiracy-theorist leanings who was convinced that the Denver Airport was going to be the holding pen for the coming American holocaust, in part based on the murals inside the airport. Those murals are, admittedly, a little freaky (just like this statue.) And needless to say, that boyfriend was soon afterwards ejected from my life.
But what is it about the Denver Airport that inspires people to fear the Greatest of All Evils, whatever that happens to be to a given mind?
I'd love to read an interview with whomever is making these artistic decisions.
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MASONIC REPTILIANS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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I've read about those theories before.. something freaky went on when building the place and was supposedly covered up. Then there are all sorts of interpretations of the murals.
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Next week on the World's stupidest people : American racist group demands that president Barak Obama be removed from office because "he looks black".
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yeah. red eyes... like they dreamed up to use in movies to indicate evil... that's a sure sign that the anti-christ is involved.
movies = real life.
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And the anti-christ equates to real life how exactly?
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Um, he was just elected President, duh.
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What?!‽ He's a secret muslim, a communist plant and the anti-christ as well? That doesn't look too good for you merry-cans then.
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Most. Badass. Statue. EVER!
It's so badass it even killed the sculptor, Luis Jimenez.
There was a smaller version of that sculpture on State Street in Santa Barbara for a while. Local residents were less alarmed by its demonic look than they were by its large anus, which just happened to be at eye level for passers-by.
damn
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You've just embarrassed yourself; I think you'd better leave.
That's what she said.
Cause it's flexing! DUH!
Those are actually secret military antennas.
It had to destroy its creator, for there can be only one.
Santa Barbara. You wouldn't happen to have gone to (or still go to) UCSB have you?
UCSB physics grad -- posting from campus right now
Are you... part of SURE??
I did. College of Creative Studies, Math and Literature. Only took me 6 years (1995-2001).
Went to Westmont, hung out at IV all the time...that and Longboards on the pier...back in the day.
Haail Satan!
Satan has been demonized for too long!
So true: I am dismayed at how reddit has degenerated from a once-elevated discussion forum to a hive of groupthink where Satan is concerned. Anyone offering an alternative perspective is downmodded and run out of the forum. He is treated as if he's the Prince of Darkness, or some sort of classic embodiment of evil.
Yes, reddit, we get it: Satan is bad, bad, bad. Can we get past it now?
Quite. Let's have a little less, Get thee behind me, Satan, and a bit more of, Come in, me old mate, and have a cup of tea.
Satan is a myth, a story. He's a charactor from a book.
Evil is real people like Mugabe or Kim Il-Sung or groups like the Taleban.
Does it pee blood?
Sorry, friend... that title belongs to this statue.
Context, please?
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You're right. I admit comment defeat. That statue is brilliant.
AAAARGHHH!! THEY'RE ATTACKING ME WITH BABIES!
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He's a grower and his penis is not erect.
Lets not forget, being a grower is a really good thing. Your dick won't freeze off like all the showers, then you will be the only one who can have sex with all the women.
...After you throw the world into a nuclear winter for this very purpose.
Can we get a dark rider on that things back? A Ring Wrath or Chosen or something?
Dick Cheney should do just fine.
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The whole Denver airport is messed up. Watch this short video of the art in it. For instance, the run ways are shaped like a swastika. All kinds of odd art has already been removed.
Swastika is an ancient symbol for luck. It has many meanings in ancient world cultures that long predate Nazi Germany.
Regardless, it's a big of a stretch to say that this resembles a swastika.
It's EXACTLY like a swastika! See, you move that bit.. there.. And this bit.. over here... then you take those letters and move them about... like this... SEE! A SWASTIKA, AND IT SAYS SATAN 666
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The kickass photo doesn't hurt either. Nice setting for the statue.
new backround for me at work :)
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hell yeah looks awesome doesn't it
Having seen it in person a few times, it's quite startling and quite amazing, really.
"Badass" was exactly the word I thought of to describe it too. Mr Christ, you win one orange arrow.
looks a bit like the demonic gargoyles in Ghostbusters, doesn't it?
Hell, yeah.
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Uh, yes. This statue is frakkin' awesome. If they get rid of it, I want it.
For some reason I expected see an obese Louisianan woman in the background running around shouting "IT'S DARKSIDED! I'M A GOD WARRIOR!"
Best. Comment. Ever.