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How poignant Mick Jagger's old song seems today. Back in the sixties I interpreted it as just the musings of an angry young man, the positing of a theory regarding the existence of evil, which of course, has existed since the beginning of time. But now it seems we're being introduced to "him" or "it" again. The devil, Lucifer, evil, whatever one chooses to call it. In my mind, "it" is fanatic Islam, not a religion, but more of a "goal." A huge, fluid, organic conglomerate of evil that must make Charlie Manson absolutely green with envy. Helter Skelter on...

School Supports Satanist Club Based on Anton LeVey's Satanic Bible In Defense of the Faith 10/2/2002 Jack Kinsella A group of students in San Mateo, California formed an on-campus club dedicated to the First Church of Satan founded by Anton LeVey. Calling themselves The Satanic Thought Society, co-president of the club James Doolittle admits he originally started the club with his friend Matt Heeney to "rile things up a bit." But now that the two juniors have studied the teachings of Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, they say Satanism helps people to express themselves. "Its (Satanism's) purpose...

Satan and the Millennium PETER KREEFT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT: Religion (which includes commandments) and “spirituality” (which doesn’t) are increasingly the major combatants in our culture. The meaning of life, according to just about every single page of the Bible, is spiritual warfare. This is also what life is according to all the saints, even the most gentle. Saints are spiritual warriors, not “nice” people. There is a war on. So let’s get on with it, whup the Devil, and win the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry (not his real name, but a real person) was an amateur philosopher and professional fishing guide. We...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) _ A Vergennes priest who had a long-running sexual relationship with a young man has resigned his post and asked to be allowed to retire from the ministry. In a letter to his parishioners at St. Peter's Church, the Rev. Donal Ward said that he was one of the priests referred to earlier this week by Attorney General William Sorrell, who cleared two priests of any illegal conduct. Ward, who was suspended from his ministerial duties in May, said in his letter that he never engaged in pedophilia, but he did say he had been involved in...

To win any war, the three most necessary things to know are (1) that you are at war, (2) who your enemy is, and (3) what weapons or strategies can defeat him. You cannot win a war (1) if you simply sew peace banners on a battlefield, (2) if you fight civil wars against your allies, or (3) if you use the wrong weapons. Here is a three point checklist for the culture wars. I assume you would not be reading a magazine called Crisis if you thought all was well. If you don’t know that our entire civilization is...

<p>DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- Reluctantly but by a 5-0 vote, the school board has made its decision: Get thee behind us, Satan.</p> <p>For more than 80 years, high school athletic teams from this town on the shore of a lake named for the devil have been called the Satans. Years ago, their mascot carried a pitchfork and roamed the sidelines in a red jumpsuit with horns and a tail.</p>

Bedeviled by Debt Unusual Venezuelan Bill Collector Embarrasses Debtors Into Paying By Mike Lee C A R A C A S, Venezuela, Aug. 14 — South America has fallen upon hard times largely because credit has been so easy to get. Governments, and many ordinary people, have been living beyond their means, and now are finding they can't keep up the payments on loans that were supposed to make things right. <! -- begin MoreOnBox --> MORE ON THIS STORY FULL COVERAGE • Mike Lee's Road to Anywhere Series   International banks and the U.S. Treasury Department pressure leaders...

<p>There could hardly have been a better way for Alec Baldwin, Massapequa boy turned movie star, to show affection for the place where he grew up.</p> <p>Baldwin announced that for his first attempt at directing, he would rent from Nassau County a former Northrop Grumman airplane factory to film "The Devil and Daniel Webster.” In November 2000, his crews arrived at the cavernous building in Bethpage.</p> <p>"It was a fabulous opportunity for us,” Baldwin recalled last week.</p>

Women and Islam   Muhammad was not a complete misogynist. To him woman was not "an organ of the Devil" (St. Bernard) but a fortress against Satan in that a good wife lessens the danger of extra-marital fornication. "The best treasure a man can hoard is a virtuous wife who pleases him when he looks to her, and who guards herself when he is absent". "The best of the commodities of the world is a virtuous wife". However the man is head of his family and after consulting with his family has final say in decisions concerning it. To the...

Repent, sinners. Your Macintosh is a tool to promote Godless Communism and anti-Creationist "propaganda", according to an article at OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries. Dr. Richard Paley, apparently "a teacher of Divinity and Theobiology at Fellowship University," starts out with discussions of the PBS series Evolution and Pokemon, and goes on to say: However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While...