Satanist gives opening prayer to Nevada's Washoe County Commissioner Clara Andriola, eliciting shock and outrage. Hail Satan!

Satanist gives opening prayer to Nevada’s Washoe County Commissioner Clara Andriola, eliciting shock and outrage. Hail Satan!

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    51•9 months ago

    Here’s the prayer for people who don’t read the article:

    In the name of the eternal rebel against tyrannical authority, in the spirit of your nature of the natural world, the freedoms of thought and expression, unprejudiced intellectual inquiry, economics and social progress to bring influence and guiding actions of nobility and justice to the decisions made in this chamber today, to act with might and the undertaking of responsibility that may lay ahead of this body before us today.
    The New Age is dawning that these decisions will play a role in. For our liberation, for here and now is our day of joy, here and now is our opportunity.
    May we seize this glorious day and its enchanting night to celebrate the wonders of the natural world, as we are all part of its boundless mysteries.

      • @MotoAsh
        -9•9 months ago

        As long as you say it tongue in cheek. At least as far as I was taught lore (and that could be completely wrong to history because religion), Satan was the one with the bad plan: to make everyone be good; remove choice from the equation.

        The great irony (and hypocrisy) of Christianity at least is, it teaches that God is all wise in part because he was willing to give us free will. The ENTIRE POINT is he will not force us to be good, but that’s exactly what the Christofascists who freak out over other religions want: to remove choice.

        Modern Christianity is literally its own antichrist. Hailing Satan isn’t the answer, but being privy to why he was supposedly bad, is.

        • El Barto
          8•9 months ago

          What? I thought Satan, or Lucifer (whose name means angel of light or something like that) was punished because he gave knowledge to humankind, not because of attempting to remove choice.

          Regardless, who the fuck cares if it’s said tongue in cheek or not?

          If another user says “Thank God!” are you going to say “As long as you say it tongue in cheek” too?

        • @[email protected]
          8•9 months ago

          Hail Satan (not tongue in cheek). We’ve been to space please stop believing in bronze age mythology.

          • @MotoAsh
            -9•9 months ago

            I’m speaking of deploying good communication skills like an intelligent person and not a brainless ape responding to the presence of religous words, but you do you.

        • southsamurai
          6•9 months ago

          I would say that there’s some degree of value to hailing satan semi seriously, as long as it’s in the vein of hailing the idea of standing against power out of control. There’s value in archetypes in that regard.

          It’s not praising a literal entity, it’s praising the idea of satan as the icon of rebellion and revolt. It’s the difference between levay style Satanism and satanic Temple style. Not that I am a member of any of them, but I dig the idea of using the iconography of the christo-fascist bullshit to work against them.

          • @MotoAsh
            -4•9 months ago

            I dunno’, I think to Christians and the religious (the ones who need to be somewhat receptive to the message) aren’t going to be as eager to give the innocently rebellious interpretation.

            Though leftists and liberals have always been terrible at messaging, so I guess that’s just par for the course…

            • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
              7•9 months ago

              I think you’ll have a problem making rebels care what they think. I know I sure don’t.

              Hail Satan 🤘

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
        12•9 months ago

        I mean, if you think rebellion against authority is a bad thing. But I thought this was America. Rebelling against tyrannical authority is our nation’s origin story.