A group of men chanting 'Christ is king' tore down the monolith in California and put a wooden cross

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Insider

A group of men chanting 'Christ is king' tore down the monolith in California and put a wooden cross there instead
Sinéad Baker 11 minutes ago

A group of young men filmed themselves tearing down the mysterious metal monolith in a California town and replacing it with a wooden cross.

The monolith was found on Pine Mountain, a hill in Atascadero, California, on December 2. It was 10 feet tall and appeared to be made of stainless steel, local news outlet Atascadero News reported.

It was noticed after similar structures had appeared and then disappeared in Utah and Romania.

According to Vice News, the men livestreamed the video onto blockchain streaming site DLive under the name CultureWarCrimnal.

Read more: https://www.insider.com/men-take-down-california-monolith-replace-wooden-cross-report-2020-12?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=referral

[Judi Lynn]

1. Atascadero monolith destroyed by vandals

By NewsChannel 3-12
December 3, 2020 8:08 pm
Published December 3, 2020 12:34 pm

ATASCADERO, Calif. - A metal monolith that appeared atop a peak in Atascadero Wednesday was destroyed by vandals overnight.

A video streamed online shows a group of young men who traveled from Orange County to San Luis Obispo County and destroyed the metal object, replacing it with a makeshift wooden cross. The cross is no longer in the area.





The vandals documented their trip to Atascadero, streaming the five-hour drive and ensuing vandalism on the website DLive, an online video streaming platform.

In the video, at least three of the men are seen pushing the monolith down and chanting "Christ is King" and "America First."

The men in the video repeatedly make comments regarding Jesus Christ and at multiple times make references to aliens, both from outer space and undocumented immigrants.

Throughout the more than five hours of video, the men are heard making racist statements. At one point in the video, one of the men, dressed in military garb, is heard yelling at the other men in the video to sing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and other military songs.

According to Vice News, which reviewed the entire length of the video, the men make references to white power and burning crosses.

More:
https://keyt.com/news/san-luis-obispo-county/2020/12/03/atascadero-monolith-destroyed-by-vandals/

[lonely bird]

16. Christ is king and America first

Are mutually exclusive.

[reACTIONary]

35. Assumimg one has the capability to...

...understand what "mutually exclusive* means.

[SunSeeker]

56. LOL. Yup. nt

[azureblue]

36. They are all about worship

and obedience. But not a word about doing what Christ tells his followers to do if they are to be Christians. Or to save themselves from hell and Jesus says they are going to hell in Matthew 25: 31- 46.

"by their works ye shall know them", indeed. Look at what these crazies are doing.

[wnylib]

41. Well, then, by their works I call

them out as phonies. Don't know what the purpose of this stunt was, but it seems very doubtful that white supremacists would be embracing and singing the tune of the Union army as it marched into war against the slave-holding Confederates.

Seems more likely that racists would be singing Dixie.

[pandr32]

45. They would have to know the facts which don't seem to account for much

They are not just phonies, but dolts.

[SunSeeker]

57. They're all about racism.

From the article:

One was wearing a headband with President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, Vice said. The footage Insider saw was too unclear to make out what it said.

In it, one man says: "Christ is king in this country. We don't want illegal aliens from Mexico or outer space. So let's tear this b---- down."

https://www.insider.com/men-take-down-california-monolith-replace-wooden-cross-report-2020-12?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=referral

[keithbvadu2]

51. Where in the Bible does Christ the King advocate white power? I must have missed that .

Where in the Bible does Christ the King advocate white power? I must have missed that .

These clowns seem to have found it.

[dbonds]

2. Wow, silliness ensues.

[cab67]

3. Given the metal supports left over from the monolith in the photos -

I'm guessing the aliens bought their materials at Lowe's?

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. YES! And I for one take comfort that Aliens are content to place "installation art" here and

there, instead of, you know, worldwide devastation.

[jaxexpat]

13. 36" pre-cut #5 bar is a commonly known intergalactic reinforcing element, as is Lowe's.

[nattyice]

4. No wonder why alien civilizations haven't made contact with us yet

We got too many shits-for-brains and that will fuck everything up (and guess which political party they are members of).

[keithbvadu2]

12. 2 space aliens looking down on earth.

2 space aliens looking down on earth.
I see the dominant life form has developed space weapons.
Does this mean they are an emerging intelligence?
I don't think so. They have them aimed at themselves.

[Renew Deal]

5. Did they put anyone on the cross?

Or is that phase 2?

[keithbvadu2]

14. A brown skinned victim.

A brown skinned victim.

Again.

[Hekate]

63. The cross has been taken down, but it doesn't say by whom...

Altho any group of morons driving 5 hours to climb a mountain to destroy an art installation while chanting white power slogans is to be considered dangerous.

The locals interviewed for local news seemed cheerfully intrigued by it and disappointed by its disappearance.

[Lonestarblue]

6. The religious right seems bent on destroying this country.

I don’t care what religion you practice, even none at all, so long as you keep it private or in your own church. That’s what religious freedom is. But I have the right to freedom from religion. We need more lawyers to use freedom from religion in a pushback to all these religious freedom cases. Of course, with the current SC, theocracy isn’t far away.

[mac2766]

9. Bingo!

[keithbvadu2]

17. Freedom of religion... For some more than others.

[azureblue]

38. want to try somethign with these yahoos?

Ask them why they eat pork, shellfish, trim their beards and even go to church if they have to wear glasses. (Leviticus forbids these) Then ask them who told them they can ignore certain inconvenient verses and demand obedience to others.

[Initech]

54. Yes they do.

And that's why I utterly despise these people. They don't just seem bent on dragging democracy down, they seem bent on making their own lives miserable and everyone else's lives miserable. Living in a fascist theocratic cult isn't for me, I prefer democracy and freedom.

[UpInArms]

7. It seems that the nutfucks are running amok

glad their acts of vandalism and their nazi ranting is on film

May the charges commence

[mr_lebowski]

47. Charge them with what?

How is it vandalism?

I mean, f*** these guys, of course, but ... what they did was not any more illegal than erecting the monolith was in the first place.

[vercetti2021]

8. This is why we can't have nice things

Obviously these things are for some kind of commercialization of a movie or something. Remember The Blair Witch Project and how everybody was tricked into believing it was real footage?

We can't have nice things because we always have some religious fucknuts always ruining things. Cuz Jesus would approve of vandalism guys... religion is a fucking mental disorder

[LiberalFighter]

10. That cross should be soaked with kerosene and burned.

[jaxexpat]

15. OOOH, That'd be trendy.

Water, water everywhere and naught but to drink.

[wnylib]

37. I have a hunch that those white supremacists

know how to burn a cross.

[SunSeeker]

58. Someone removed it already. nt

[Mike 03]

18. Bitterly sad and ironic

So based on this specific action, one would argue that Arthur C. Clarke was right about our species and that Kubrick was mistaken.

Arthur C. Clarke's original ending for 2001 was far more pessimistic and predicted we would not evolve but would destroy ourselves.

Kubrick rejected it and went with the optimistic prediction that we would transcend our basest stupidities.

[brooklynite]

19. Beyond the stupid symbolism, I don't care...

If the monolith wasn't legally installed, I don't much care if someone knocks it over.

Much like the sculptor of the Wall Street Bull, who dropped it off without a permit in the middle of the night, and then complained when someone came along and installed Fearless Girl next to it.

[MineralMan]

20. Jebus Is Very, Very Proud Today,

no doubt.

[yaesu]

21. they were probably the ones who put it up so they could pull this stunt for youtube views, money

taking after their reality show orange god.

[BusyBeingBest]

25. This is very plausible.

[mahina]

44. Ahhh - yeah, because, San Luis Obispo??

I agree, likely.


They just want a little blue light glory.

[mr_lebowski]

49. Orange County is a good 6 hour drive from Atascadero

Why wouldn't you erect the monolith somewhere nearby reasonably nearby where you live if you were going to do this?

[PubliusEnigma]

22. Keep putting up Monoliths. Future Unity Past Division.

[SharonClark]

23. Here's a link to the video from Vice -

https://streamable.com/1sngc0

[Collimator]

24. Like so many others, I am not exactly sending "thoughts and prayers" to the evicted monolith.

(Or maybe I am, since it apparently is such an effective strategy?)

The behavior of the men involved in this incident disturbs me because it is reminiscent of Islamic extremists blowing up statues of the Buddha that have otherwise endured for centuries. Even some forms of Islamic art and representation have been destroyed by such radicals because it contradicts with their own, specific interpretation of their faith.

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Future Anthropology thesis topic ?

Or maybe part of a mental health meta-study ?

Bizarre behavior begs some form of explanation.

[chriscan64]

27. I for one welcome our new monolith overlords.

Not really, but it's sounding less crazy by the day in comparison to the news.

[truthisfreedom]

28. Every part of this nonsense is boring

[StClone]

50. You got that "as seen on FB, Twitter..."

Some nobody erects a piece of metal on our land and its SOooooo mysterious. Really!? Then the Golden Calf bunch are bent on destroying it 'cuase they are hip to FB, Twitter too!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

29. I would've gone with "God is great myself.". Maybe stoned the

monolith a little bit, before taking it down.

[12over]

30. الله أكبر - Allahu Akbar

Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

and then someone get beheaded... or since this is america... shot.

[Hekate]

64. Not sure this is relevant, unless you wrap it in a paragraph or two to make sense of it, 12over

[rwsanders]

31. If only they'd show the same enthusiasm about pulling down the false god that they worship

and tear down the NYSE.

As a bonus: the next time a "christian" tells you they don't like environmentalists because they worship nature, tell them that you've seen far fewer environmentalists who worship nature than you have "christians" who worship money. (Chick-fil-A I'm talking to you too).

[safeinOhio]

32. What next? Burn the witch?

[roamer65]

33. IF there is an Antichrist and IF he/she/it goes after these fundies, I'm all in on it.

[jalan48]

34. Religious insecurity.

[VA_Jill]

39. Oh FFS

A bunch of Christofascist idiots. And I think the monoliths are actually a huge prank.

[AllaN01Bear]

40. natrualy that somebodys from the outside did this. if it were dems , blacks

and others, the police would be all over us esp if peacfull

[OnlinePoker]

42. Sky Daddy weeps. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

43. Did someone shout "Where's your monolith god now?!" too? n/t

[ET Awful]

46. Next they'll be blowing up 1,700 year old statutes of the Buddha in the desert. . .

[BumRushDaShow]

48. This is now "a thing"?

You start with some oddity in Utah and now others.

[onetexan]

52. hmm now if a buncha Buddhists decide to tear something down to put up a statue of Budha wouldn't

that really rile up the crazy evangelicals? These bastards need to be charged & made to pay for vandalizing public property.

[twodogsbarking]

53. And this

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”

― Lenny Bruce

[Initech]

55. These fucking idiots are why we can't have nice things.

[Moostache]

59. Once again...Sagan was a prophet...

This is from the film adaptation of his work "Contact":

These kind of religious fundamentalists enjoy too wide a berth of respectability in culture. They should be treated no different that virulent racists, misogynists or bigots...PRE-TRUMP treated that is!

[Hekate]

60. Cue "Thus Spake Zarathustra" from 2001, a Space Odyssey. This part is funny...

Police are investigating. The city's mayor told Vice: "We are upset that these young men felt the need to drive 5 hours to come into our community and vandalize the Monolith."

I think that’s a perfect response.

[MarcA]

61. Those trying to equate illegally putting up an object with

illegally tearing it down are giving license to those who will destroy anything they deem as illegal. True, even if the perpetrators were one and the same.

[malthaussen]

62. 2020, the gift that keeps on giving. n/t

[maddogesq]

65. 2020: A SPACED-OUT ODYSSEY. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

66. But these are men of Gawd!!

[BobTheSubgenius]

67. They opened the door.

Now, you can make the case that their property is subject to destruction. In an equitable world, these guys would be tracked down and f'ed up, in some why.

[Omaha Steve]

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