Church of Satan

Maybe it's Levy, but they look eerily alike, like crazy similar.

and xena people think like taylor is her reincarnated xena is alive so like i don't know about that but maybe they're like somehow connected in the cosmos xena is and slash was not quite a witch but like kind of in the same spiritual family now xena shrek she changed her last name is buddhist and denounced satanism But she was raised within the Church of Satan and was the organization's actual first spokesperson.

Her parents are the co-founders.

Now, before you say, wait, Haley, I thought you said that witches don't worship Satan.

Well, actually, I know this is confusing.

Satanists actually also don't worship Satan.

It turns out in the Church of Satan, they don't worship the devil at all.

Satan is actually just used as a symbol, like in life.

Those areas tend to be a little bit more connected to the past.

It's interesting to me that some of the cults that have existed, Church of Satan and so forth, they embrace days like Halloween.

They've kind of tried to leverage that.

You beat me too, because that's where I was going to in the modern era.

And then that passed to my wife's mother, who married a guy, and he got involved in Satanism.

In particular, it seems from everything that we've uncovered, it was more of like the Anton LaVey, Church of Satan type of Satanism.

So this is what she came out of.

So in that...

If you look at the literature of Aquino's theistic satanic cult, the Temple of Set, you can see that he names the ritual featured in the novel and treats it as a basis for anti-Christian ceremonies.

The same goes for LaVey's Church of Satan.

So the lineage runs from a 15th century satanic serial killer through 19th century occult Paris and onwards to 20th century occultists.

The black mass depicted in the novel takes place in an improvised chapel and is led by a priest wearing a deliberately obscene parody of liturgical garments.

And I, in fact, at the end of my street, there's somebody who flies a huge Satan flag and he goes all out for Halloween.

Wait, Satan flag? What? Yeah, like it's the Church of Satan.

They have an official flag and he always has two skeletons on his beautiful Victorian front porch.

But at Halloween, he goes all in.

They're going to go to a tarot card reader, or they're going to go to a fortune teller, or they're going to get a Ouija board or dabble in the occult somewhere.

Does that surprise you?

Not really, because of the person at the end of my street, I have gone onto the Church of Satan's website and checked out what they believe.

And they are rationalists.

who writeth out upon the hot winds of hell, who dwellers in the devil's lair, move and appear.

Church of Satan leader, Anton LaVey.

This shit is dark.

He was acknowledged as an uncredited technical advisor.

A lot of research that I did, they talked about that, that that quote got taken out when they released it in theaters.

Because people are

scared of the Church of Satan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

i know pretty well and i lived in des moines for a time running it uh... involved in running a campaign anyway uh...

this guy dalby is actually a member of the Church of Satan.

And they, which, by the way, it's the Church of Satan put a deity of, you know, they're called Deity Bahomet in the Iowa State House until somebody cut its head off.

But they actually, the satanic temple, his so-called church, fights for the right to kill unborn children.

They have a satanic abortion ritual designed to help pro-abortion women cast off feelings of guilt over murdering their unborn babies made in the image of God.

It's crazy that we even have to have this conversation.

Listen, this is what the founder of the Church of Satan had to say about Christian parents and Halloween.

I'm glad that Christian parents worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

He didn't say participate.