A Satanic group is accusing Netflix of appropriating its goat-man sculpture in ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’

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By Eileen Kinsella

The statue of Baphomet by artist Mark Porter. Image via MarkPorterworks.com

As far as legal battles go, this one is about as seasonal as they come. Just in time for Halloween, the co-founder and spokesman for the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, is threatening legal action against Netflix for featuring a statue that appears nearly identical to one it commissioned in 2014 in its new series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Brooklyn-based artist Mark Porter depicted the goat-man deity Baphomet, the pagan idol that the Knights of Templar were accused of worshiping, sitting in a throne before two admiring children. The Satanic Temple commissioned the work as a response to a statue of the Ten Commandments erected on the site of the Oklahoma State Capitol in 2012, which the Temple says is a violation of the separation of church and state. [More]