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Satanists support abortion and gay marriage

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From here:

Whenever the American people try to curtail abortion or maintain marriage laws, the followers of Satan will be there to fight back, promises the national spokesman for the Satanic Temple.

“Lucien Greaves” told Detroit’s Metro Times that he would like to help women avoid complying with pro-life laws by saying abortion restrictions violate their Satanic religious beliefs. He added that gay “marriage” is a Satanic “sacrament.”

That means that on two of the most important social issues of our day, the Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church have the same perspective as Satanists.

The question is: will Anglicans or Satanists be more upset over this?

On the other hand, the ACoC is already in full communion with the ELCIC; perhaps another opportunity is presenting itself.

Florida rejects monument to Satan

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Instead, it has opted to mock Christianity with a Festivus pole and a Flying Spaghetti Monster display. I’m sure Christians will not only manage to withstand the onslaught but draw sustenance from observing how adrift in banality a civilisation can become when it abandons the truth upon which it was founded.

From here:

A Satanic group’s bid to put up a display at the Florida Capitol is being rejected by state authorities.

During this year’s holiday season several groups have allowed to put up displays in the rotunda because the area is considered a “public forum.”

A Nativity scene has been installed as well as a six-foot Festivus pole with beer cans around it. State officials this week also approved a display from a group called the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

But a request from a group calling itself The Satanic Temple has been denied.

Satanists want their own monument on steps of Oklahoma’s Statehouse

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Oklahoma Satanists want to erect a monument to Satan, claiming that they are entitled to equal time with Christians. The monument will be tasteful – at least to Satanists – and will portray the “historic/literary Satan”. Here’s a “literary” version of Satan in the Ninth Circle of Hell from Dante’s Inferno, although I doubt that that is what they have in mind. They may settle on the historical interpretation instead: a snake.

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For children, there will be an interactive display: push a button to see an animated depiction of Satanic child ritual abuse, perhaps.

Such is the price of indiscriminate religious equality.

From here:

“We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards,” Greaves wrote in letter to state officials. “Our proposed monument, as an homage to the historic/literary Satan, will certainly abide by these guidelines.”

Greaves said one potential design involves a pentagram, a satanic symbol, while another is meant to be an interactive display for children. He said he expects the monument, if approved by Oklahoma officials, would cost about $20,000.

A Church of England vicar, the Devil’s Interval and the “liberative theology of darkness”

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Just when you thought you’d heard everything from the CofE:

The Rev Rachel Mann claims that the much-maligned form of music [heavy metal] demonstrates the “liberative theology of darkness”, allowing its tattooed and pierced fans to be more “relaxed and fun” by acknowledging the worst in human nature.

She says that by contrast, churchgoers can appear too sincere and take themselves too seriously.

The priest admits that many will be “concerned” about metal lyrics praising Satan and mocking Christianity, but insists it is just a form of “play-acting”.

Miss Mann, priest-in-charge of St Nicholas’s, Burnage, writes in this week’s Church Times: “Since Black Sabbath effectively created it in 1969 by using the dissonant sound of the medieval ‘Devil’s chord’, heavy metal has been cast as dumb, crass, and on, occasions satanic; music hardly fit for intelligent debate, led alone theological reflection.

For more information on the “Devil’s Interval” take a look here. And here it is as a diminished 5th in a distinctly non-devilish snippet (the dissonance in the 2nd and 4th bars):

Sad to say, Rev Mann can’t seem to make the distinction between the silly demonization of a musical interval and integrating Satan, darkness, violence, destruction and death into one’s Christian life. I suppose it’s just the next step in inclusion:

Miss Mann says that heavy metal songs, characterized by distorted guitar sounds, “intense” beats and “muscular” vocals, are “unafraid to deal with death, violence and destruction”.

Its “predominantly male and white” fans “generally like tattoos and piercings” but are “graceful, welcoming and gentle”.

“The music’s willingness to deal with nihilistic and, on occasion, extremely unpleasant subjects seems to offer its fans a space to accept others in a way that shames many Christians.

“Metal’s refusal to repress the bleak and violent truths of human nature liberates its fans to be more relaxed and fun people”.

She goes on to claim that “metal has no fear of human darkness” and while some Christians are similarly unafraid, “many are yet to discover its potential as a place of integration”.