Hahaha!
This guy is fucking crazy!
From http://www.indystar.com/articles/0/129814-4070-103.html
Ruth Holladay
On Commandments monument, he finds a pagan plot
March 16, 2004
A week ago Sunday, somebody drove a white Jeep Cherokee over the curb in front of the Eagles Lodge in Anderson.
The Jeep then pushed over the 6-by-4-foot limestone marker bearing the Ten Commandments -- shattering it into about 12 chunks.
Déjà vu, anyone?
In Indiana, destroying or vandalizing the Ten Commandments has become almost as much a state pastime as downing Ding Dongs or attending tractor pulls.
If history is an indicator, the usual suspect in this caper would be Stephen M. Schroeder, 42, Indianapolis. Indeed, he did damage this particular marker five times when it was on the Statehouse lawn, refusing to pay a $2,500 fine on principle and serving 90 days in jail. But when contacted Monday about the Anderson attack, he pointed out he goes after offending markers on public grounds only. He was genuinely surprised, he said, to hear the news.
"I didn't even know they'd put it back up," said Schroeder, who describes himself as Christian, Protestant, anti-Catholic and anti-Mason. He's also an articulate, single-minded warehouse supervisor. His mission? To expose Indiana's role as the supreme "capital of pagan worship."
And you thought we were the Bible belt, right? Hah, scoffs Schroeder, adding, "That was supposed to have been my monument. I paid for it. I did time for it."
Sorry, Steve, but the Eagles got it back after you toppled it in 1991. Split in two, it was hauled to a state garage until somebody called the Eagles and asked if they'd like their Ten Commandments back.
That seems fair, since it was the lodge that gave it to Indiana in 1958, with the intention of displaying it outside the Statehouse, where it was for years with no fuss. Then the church-state brouhaha erupted, and the monument became the target of lawsuits and vandals. Except that Indiana had its own particular version of events, thanks to Schroeder's elaborate take on this.
Schroeder did not hate the marker because he hates God. He doesn't. He hates pagans, and he maintains this marker was a sneaky pagan plot.
It did not include the commandment cautioning against graven images. That means it was Catholic, and therefore, he says, bad.
Also, it bore a hideous graven image, he says. "Right above the proclamation 'The Lord my God is One God' was a breasted sun god, a triangle with a crescent moon on top, an all-seeing eye with breasts. It was the same graven image on altars in Carthage." In other words, it was pagan all the way.
Schroeder contends the image was a Masonic symbol. Free Masonry, he says, is the biggest pagan religion there is. That's what offended him so about the marker.
Frank Morrison, 73, a retired firefighter and president of the Anderson Eagles, seemed a little offended himself. He says flatly that Eagles are not Masons, and Masons are not pagans. He could not recall the symbol Schroeder describes, although if there was one, "It may have been covered by the re-dedication plaque," he says, after the marker was repaired in 1998.
Anderson police say Schroeder is not a suspect. The Jeep was filled with young white males, says Lt. Michael Reed. Schroeder drives a silver Camry.
Still, what went down in Anderson provides an opening for Schroeder to continue his longtime expose of Indy's pagan symbolism. Did you know, he asks, that the entire Downtown is teeming with diabolic images on public buildings? He will present his views at 1 p.m. March 27 at the House Cafe in Glendale Mall.
His seminar's title is "In Diana Pan Opolis." Translation? Only in Indiana.
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I hadn't heard anything about this before...but I'd definately like to attend this crazy man's seminar in Indianapolis!
From http://www.indystar.com/articles/0/129814-4070-103.html
Ruth Holladay
On Commandments monument, he finds a pagan plot
March 16, 2004
A week ago Sunday, somebody drove a white Jeep Cherokee over the curb in front of the Eagles Lodge in Anderson.
The Jeep then pushed over the 6-by-4-foot limestone marker bearing the Ten Commandments -- shattering it into about 12 chunks.
Déjà vu, anyone?
In Indiana, destroying or vandalizing the Ten Commandments has become almost as much a state pastime as downing Ding Dongs or attending tractor pulls.
If history is an indicator, the usual suspect in this caper would be Stephen M. Schroeder, 42, Indianapolis. Indeed, he did damage this particular marker five times when it was on the Statehouse lawn, refusing to pay a $2,500 fine on principle and serving 90 days in jail. But when contacted Monday about the Anderson attack, he pointed out he goes after offending markers on public grounds only. He was genuinely surprised, he said, to hear the news.
"I didn't even know they'd put it back up," said Schroeder, who describes himself as Christian, Protestant, anti-Catholic and anti-Mason. He's also an articulate, single-minded warehouse supervisor. His mission? To expose Indiana's role as the supreme "capital of pagan worship."
And you thought we were the Bible belt, right? Hah, scoffs Schroeder, adding, "That was supposed to have been my monument. I paid for it. I did time for it."
Sorry, Steve, but the Eagles got it back after you toppled it in 1991. Split in two, it was hauled to a state garage until somebody called the Eagles and asked if they'd like their Ten Commandments back.
That seems fair, since it was the lodge that gave it to Indiana in 1958, with the intention of displaying it outside the Statehouse, where it was for years with no fuss. Then the church-state brouhaha erupted, and the monument became the target of lawsuits and vandals. Except that Indiana had its own particular version of events, thanks to Schroeder's elaborate take on this.
Schroeder did not hate the marker because he hates God. He doesn't. He hates pagans, and he maintains this marker was a sneaky pagan plot.
It did not include the commandment cautioning against graven images. That means it was Catholic, and therefore, he says, bad.
Also, it bore a hideous graven image, he says. "Right above the proclamation 'The Lord my God is One God' was a breasted sun god, a triangle with a crescent moon on top, an all-seeing eye with breasts. It was the same graven image on altars in Carthage." In other words, it was pagan all the way.
Schroeder contends the image was a Masonic symbol. Free Masonry, he says, is the biggest pagan religion there is. That's what offended him so about the marker.
Frank Morrison, 73, a retired firefighter and president of the Anderson Eagles, seemed a little offended himself. He says flatly that Eagles are not Masons, and Masons are not pagans. He could not recall the symbol Schroeder describes, although if there was one, "It may have been covered by the re-dedication plaque," he says, after the marker was repaired in 1998.
Anderson police say Schroeder is not a suspect. The Jeep was filled with young white males, says Lt. Michael Reed. Schroeder drives a silver Camry.
Still, what went down in Anderson provides an opening for Schroeder to continue his longtime expose of Indy's pagan symbolism. Did you know, he asks, that the entire Downtown is teeming with diabolic images on public buildings? He will present his views at 1 p.m. March 27 at the House Cafe in Glendale Mall.
His seminar's title is "In Diana Pan Opolis." Translation? Only in Indiana.
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I hadn't heard anything about this before...but I'd definately like to attend this crazy man's seminar in Indianapolis!