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That is like saying a group wearing Nazi uniforms giving the Nazi salute and screaming Heil Hitler while flying Nazi swastika flags are not really Nazi's because they say they don't really believe in what the Nazi's stand for and it is just counter - culture symbolism....... Yeah, right...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65549975
That is like saying a group wearing Nazi uniforms giving the Nazi salute and screaming Heil Hitler while flying Nazi swastika flags are not really Nazi's because they say they don't really believe in what the Nazi's stand for and it is just counter - culture symbolism....... Yeah, right...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65549975
Quote:In a candle-lit room set aside for Satanic ceremonies, a neon sign welcomes you to The Little Black Chapel. A raised altar stands at one end, a white pentagram on the floor in front of it.
The ritual being performed here is an "unbaptism", in which participants symbolically reject religious rites performed when they were children.
They wear a floor-length, hooded cloak and a black face mask. Their hands are bound with rope, which is then cast off to represent liberation. Pages are torn out of a Bible to symbolise overturning their Christian baptism.
They do use the symbols of Satan for rituals - for example when celebrating a wedding or adopting a new name. That might include having an upside-down neon cross on your altar while shouting: "Hail Satan!"
"We've got folks who wear inverted crosses. And our opening ceremony did have the ripping up of a Bible as a symbol of oppression, especially oppression of LGBTQ folk and women, and also the BIPOC community, and pretty much anybody who's grown up with religious trauma, which is a tremendous number of our members."
Presentations are given, including one called "Hellbillies: Visible Satanism in Rural America", and a seminar on Satanism and self-pleasure.
Another project drawing headlines is After School Satan Clubs - slogan: "Educatin' with Satan".
They have a kids' song - My Pal Satan - with a bopping animated goat, and the lines: "Satan's not an evil guy, he wants you to learn and question why. He wants you to have fun and be yourself - and by the way there is no hell."
'Satan loves you!'
Dozens of artists and vendors have set up stalls to sell Satanically inspired crafts. They have everything from "Satan Loves You!" beanies, to crocheted toys modelled on the Baphomet - a goat-headed Satanist symbol with wings.
A newly launched children's book, titled Goodnight Baphomet, draws coos from bystanders.
And if you will confess with your mouth our Lord Yeshua, and you will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall have life.