America, at first blush, would seem a highly
unlikely place for Devil worship to take root. Sadly, that is just what appears
to be occurring. Satanists are becoming main-stream. In fact, explicitly
satanic groups have begun drawing attention to themselves in the context of
public governmental ceremonies.
The Satanic
Temple, of which I’ve previously written, wasn’t founded until 2013, yet has
seven chapters in the U.S. and Europe and a membership of over 100,000. It
fights for “political change” and is, of course, virulently opposed to
conservatism. It is currently attempting to embed Lucifer in the public school
system via “After School Satan” clubs. (See my post of August 2nd,
2016). They have met with some success and currently boast A.S.S. clubs (my acronym, not theirs) in nine school
systems. The Satanic Temple also aims to place
demonic books on the shelves of public school libraries, and have satanic
prayers recited at high school games.
And
now the Satanic Temple has a new international headquarters…in Salem,
Massachusetts. So far, residents and business owners alike seem at ease with
adding Satanists to their city’s mix of Wiccans, Warlocks, and faiths outside
of the mainstream. Dominick Pangallo, Salem Mayor Kimberley Driscoll’s chief of
staff, claims that they have only received “a total of four phone calls” from
people concerned about their town becoming the World Headquarters of the Church
of Satan. Live and let live as they say. The city has traded Puritans for
Satanists. Progress…pass it on!
In recent months, satanic invocations were given at several
different city council meetings around the United States. According to various
online and newspaper reports, a member of the Satanic Temple was allowed to
make an opening “prayer” to Lucifer at a Kenai Peninsula Borough
Assembly meeting
last month. Local resident and Satanic Temple member
Iris Fontana started off the invocation by stating: "Let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines
born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse
to eat of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting
delusions of old. Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete
actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory
categorizations.”
She ended the prayer with “Hail Satan.”
Council members stood in a circle with remarkable
sanguinity as she spoke.
In July
another Satanist was allowed to give an invocation prior to a Pensacola,
Florida city council meeting. Observers say that these invocations seem to be
mostly a call for people to turn against their religious beliefs and embrace
agnosticism. These satanic prayers have sparked debate about whether city
councils should just do away altogether with their traditions of opening
meetings with prayer.
That,
of course, is exactly what the
Satanists want.
You
know what they say: “Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.” If we
continue with this devil-may-care attitude, there will be hell to pay.
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