Hail Satan?: The Satanists battling for religious freedom (Satan's PR campaign)

bbc.com ^ | 8/22/19 | Kev Geoghegan

[ransomnote]

Everything you know about Satanism is wrong.

At least that's what a new documentary about the Satanic Temple could be about to prove.

Despite the similarity of the name, the Temple is different to The Church of Satan, established in 1966 by chat show circuit celebrity Anton Levey in San Francisco, California.

Human sacrifice? Wrong. Blood drinking? Wrong. Black Mass? Well, sort of right.

The Temple was founded in 2013 with a mission statement "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will".

Hail Satan? directed by US film-maker Penny Lane, follows the Temple's attempts to curtail what they see as the encroachment of Christianity on US life through its growing political influence.

That creeping theocracy results in a monument to the Ten Commandments being offered pride of place at the Oklahoma State Capitol building in Oklahoma City.

The Temple's response is to ask for a space for their own statue of the Satanic deity Baphomet in a bid to restore some kind of cosmic religious balance, all the while preaching a doctrine in support of social justice and human rights.

"We want people to evaluate the United States being a Christian nation," the Temple's spokesman Lucien Greaves says in the film's trailer. "It's not".

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Good will be called evil and evil will be called good.

We live in a society where:

Politicians lecture us on Truth,
Homosexuals lecture us on morals,
Transsexuals lecture us on human biology,
Baby killers lecture us on the death penalty,
Tyrants lecture us on human rights,
Satanists lecture us on religion, and
Socialists lecture us on economics

[wastedyears]

As a metal fan, I find how so many people take everything involving "the devil" and "satan" at face value, believing everything and anything to do with it to be bad and evil.

Here's the guy that popularized the "devil horns" in metal, who passed in 2005 to stomach cancer.

We really don't need another group of harpies claiming that everything to do with rock and metal is evil and satanic.

Yeah, kind of off on a tangent, but it kinda aggravates me a bit.

Here's some humor with it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

But think: if they made a model of YOUR house and then ritually burned it down --- maybe while chanting imprecations against you and your family --- that would be a little... more... unsettling, wouldn't it?

But a House of God? Oh. That's. Funny.

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And it's not like it never happened before. It's not like there weren't hundreds of Catholic churches torched or dynamited in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War, or practically daily desecrations of Catholic Churches at this very time in France, some of it done by Islamists, but MOST of it done by French secularists doin what French secularists do best.

A House of God? Oh. That's. Funny.

[LouAvul]

I hate to break the news, but back when we began a concerted effort to drive Jesus Christ out of public schools, politics, entertainment, medicine and government, we created a vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Satan has filled the vacuum. With a vengeance.

Satan hates God. God loves man. Satan hates man.

Matt 12:43-45: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

[wastedyears]

I wouldn’t really care. Being a metal fan, I find some of it humorous.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Good to know, pardner. May God bless you and keep you -— far away from us.

[Terry L Smith]

There is one point a lot of people miss, partly because they are o.k. with that. In America TODAY, it is Christians who are decrying their 1st Amendment rights being stomped, while at the same time, stomping on other folks’ 1st Amendment rights, because the other folks don’t do as they do. For example, it was in the 1970’s that witchcraft, yes i said witchcraft, was included in American military chaplains’ manuals. That may be news to some of you. Likewise, the re is a trumpish hat that states ‘make America saved again’. Fine, and dandy. Now, doing that, what are you going to do with all the American CITIZENS that refuse? What about THEIR 1st Amendment rights?

[wastedyears]

That’s not very nice.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Nothing against you personally, wasted years, but I like to be kept far away from people who think Satanists burning down churches is a joke.

As I said, it's not that it's so ludicrous it could only be some kind of satire. It is literally --- looking at it globally --- an every-day occurrence: churches are gutted, sanctuaries are desecrated, people are injured or killed, and it's about as funny as Krystallnacht.

Mine is a natural and logical response. It parallels the message of my tagline.

[wastedyears]

The saracens are burning churches. The black metal community is done with that.

[Mrs. Don-o]

In France, at this point, the Saracens have of course done their due diligence of the deviltry, but for the most part I have read --- rather to my surprise -- that most of the perps have been native, homegrown French satanists and secularists.

Check the link.