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A huge pagan statue just went up in Texas. Is this the Western civilization we should be cheering?

theblaze.com · 4h · first reportShare

A 50-foot bronze statue of the pagan god Prometheus is rising out of the Texas dirt near SpaceX's Starbase, holding a torch over the launch site that is supposed to carry mankind toward the stars. The symbolism is not exactly subtle. Prometheus, the Greek Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity, has long represented man's acquisition of knowledge and technological power. The French classical foundry Atelier Missor, which is behind the project, says the completed statue will stand at Starbase "holding high the torch of the West." The statue is apparently not a SpaceX commission or some monument Elon Musk ordered for himself. Atelier Missor reportedly financed the project itself and is assembling it on private land near Starbase as a tribute to technological progress. It is tempting to love the whole thing. After decades of public art that seems deliberately designed to be ugly, alienating, or incomprehensible, here are artists building an enormous, muscular figure fro