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British Navy recognises Satanist
afp ^ | 10/25/04 | FP

Posted on 10/24/2004 10:41:49 PM PDT by Mark Felton

A TECHNICIAN in the Royal Navy has become the first serviceman in Britain's armed forces to be officially recognised as a Satanist, the defence ministry said.

HMS Cumberland Satanist on board ... the "bad" ship HMS Cumberland / File Chris Cranmer, 24, has been given the go-ahead by his captain to perform Satanic rituals on board the HMS Cumberland and is reportedly lobbying his employers to register Satanism as an official religion in the armed forces.

"There is a guy who has asked to practice his (Satanic) beliefs on a Royal Navy ship," a defence ministry spokesman said.

"His request was treated sympathetically by the ship's commanding officer."

Cranmer holds the rank of leading hand - the naval equivalent of corporal - and in line with British naval tradition will be permitted to have a funeral carried out by the Church of Satan should he be killed in action.

He realised he was a Satanist nine years ago after stumbling across a copy of the Satanic Bible written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.

"I then read more and more and came to realise I'd always been a Satanist, just simply never knew," he was quoted as saying.

The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco in 1966 and LaVey was its high priest until his death in 1997.

Followers live by the Nine Satanic Statements, which include "Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence", "Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek" and "Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification".

Agence France-Presse


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1 posted on 10/24/2004 10:41:49 PM PDT by Mark Felton
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To: Mark Felton

this is downright scary!!


2 posted on 10/24/2004 10:43:29 PM PDT by pollywog (Psalm 121;1 I Lift my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
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To: Mark Felton

Multiculturalism continues unabated.


3 posted on 10/24/2004 10:43:29 PM PDT by risk
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To: Mark Felton

Already posted.


4 posted on 10/24/2004 10:44:24 PM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: Mark Felton

Not to be a hall monitor, but this is only like the tenth time this has been posted since yesterday. Search is your friend.


5 posted on 10/24/2004 10:44:51 PM PDT by kezekiel
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To: pollywog

Anton Szandor LaVey was a carney/circus performer who happen to stumble across a brand name nobody was claiming and ran with it.


6 posted on 10/24/2004 10:44:55 PM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Mark Felton

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254854/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255811/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255099/posts

Search results for titles with “navy” and ‘satanist’


7 posted on 10/24/2004 10:44:57 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Osama is lying low because he's in no condition to get up. -- Mark Steyn)
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To: kezekiel

only ten times? That seems low


8 posted on 10/24/2004 10:47:31 PM PDT by Cosmo (Got wood?)
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To: Mark Felton

That will be one miserable ship to serve on.


9 posted on 10/24/2004 10:49:34 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Mark Felton
Did someone say.... La Vey?

Here's a parody

Just for the sake of clarity, the above is Funny, but Fake.

10 posted on 10/24/2004 10:52:15 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Kerry plans to graft post-Vietnam policy on Iraq: Kill Allawi and let the Syrian Baathists take over)
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To: Mark Felton

Don't believe everything you read.


11 posted on 10/24/2004 10:59:18 PM PDT by Just Lori (Before you can win the peace, you have to win the WAR!)
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To: Mark Felton

Then the Navy should also recognize the Junkyard Religion founded on Sandford & Son.


12 posted on 10/24/2004 11:01:50 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: Mark Felton

Britain, a once great nation, is giving us a glimpse of OUR future if we continue to allow liberals to rule.

This insanity is the result of liberals worrying more about feeeeeeeeeeeeellings and less about order in their society and safety among their population.

When idiots run the asylum, who do you call the fix the plumbing?


13 posted on 10/24/2004 11:49:15 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: Mark Felton

File this under the WTF department. Are the Brits going to start a Alistar Crowley Regiment?? How do you celebrate Satan?? Get naked, dance around a fire, and burn a virgin?? Bow and pray to a goat head??

O Brave New World, To Have Such People In It.


Just when I thought the world was insane, I'm proven its really much worse.


14 posted on 10/24/2004 11:58:41 PM PDT by kb2614 ( You have everything to fear, including fear itself. - The new DNC slogan)
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To: Mark Felton

"don't ask, don't sacrafice goats"
policy?


15 posted on 10/25/2004 1:52:32 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Justice of the Piece:Charity is conservative;doing it with someone else's money is liberal.)
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