The Illinois Capitol Statehouse has installed a Satanic sculpture in its halls in celebration of the Christmas season.

“The Snaketivity,” gifted by the Satanic Temple of Chicago, features a black cube with a hand holding an apple and a snake coiled around it, and an accompanying inscription that reads, “Knowledge Is The Greatest Gift.”

The sculpture sits under the Capitol’s rotunda along with other traditional religious displays, including a Christmas nativity scene and a menorah for Hanukkah.

“Under the Constitution, the First Amendment, people have a right to express their feelings, their thoughts,” spokesman for the secretary of state Dave Druker said Monday. “This recognizes that.”

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