Christians terrified & freaking out about Eye of Medusa

David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking
8 min readDec 4, 2024

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In the real world the story I’m about to relate below is a complete nothing-burger, a total non-event that does not in any way harm anybody. It concerns a recent invocation given at the Tulsa City Council in Oklahoma.

The delightful lady who gave the invocation, Amy Hardy-McAdams, has done this before. Back in June 2021 she gave more or less the exact same invocation, and at that time, nobody cared, absolutely nobody was bothered. Life just went on as normal.

This time it is different.

A right-wing X account tweeted out her Invocation and called it “Satanic”, and from there it rapidly went viral. Those that stand ready to be offended rapidly sprung into action and quickly expressed their outrage that Satan was apparently roaming the halls of the Tulsa City Council.

OK, let’s take this a step at a time, because honestly their outrage is quite frankly hilariously funny, and is akin to being genuinely terrified of the easter bunny or the tooth fairy.

The Trigger Tweet

Here is the trigger tweet, the alpha-source, that put out a clip of the invocation along with some “Be offended” instructions …

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David Gamble
David Gamble

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