“Looks like pizza paddles to me but knock yourself out.”
Those aren’t butterflies or pizza paddles on that menu. They are ping pong paddles.
The pizza joint in question is called ‘Comet Ping Pong’
Satanism is a more formal variety of generally ungodliness, it is not necessarily to be considered something entirely apart from run of the mill bad human conduct.
I have no direct experience with it, but when you read its own literature you get the idea that committed Satanists are driven secularists who want to succeed, have no ethics, and get a buzz off the evil aspects of witchcraft. They may actually practice their Satanist religion in isolation or in secret, but possibly in the case of Washington DC and other national capitals, the proponents know each other and reinforce each others’ beliefs.
I don’t picture that they spend hours in secret clavens chanting and doing occult things. They just accept Satan as the dark lord of their lives and go on to do whatever turns them on, cynically manipulating anyone they need to manipulate to achieve their hidden ends.
All that being said, it would seem like a seamless transition for many powerful people in our society to be of that persuasion.
With power taken away from them, some might resort to gross evil acts to get that power back, since their self-image is built on the foundation of success in the world. But when they see that the power is gone for a long period of time, they will try to adjust to a future plan, and perhaps manipulate those who replaced them so that they too will resonate. Satanists can probably recognize one another without hand signs or other tells, on a spiritual level. But it speeds things up if they can see signs and be assured of like-mindedness.
The thing that fascinates me the most is how similar the spiritual landscape is to that described in Revelations, try reading the lead up to the second coming passages as if all images refer to the modern American tapestry, and it is fairly easy to identify most of the key players. And throughout is the image that the devil, having lost power in heaven, is now engaged in a final struggle on earth, one that he is about to lose to a victorious Christ.
No matter how much you admire Trump, obviously Christ is someone entirely beyond the political realm. But Trump may be recognizable as one of the forces for good in the narrative.