The Satanic Temple

And of course, these guys were some.

And then later on, and I've already mentioned the, um, Satanic Temple, which is a little bit more modern look at it, but they are also very much in this vein of bringing forth this spiritual darkness into the Earth.

And so they're, they're more proactive in politics and trying to push things that Satan would be very much in favor of, whether it be the LGBT and all kinds of sexual deviant behavior or abortions.

Uh, they're very politically active in pursuing and pushing.

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I don't know if you, if, if you hear with the edit there in the, um, in the handover to the War Room logo, th- the final words of that is clearly, um, as you can hear them on the original tape, he's, he's cl- he's literally closing his prayer with "Hail Satan." This is Matt Dalby, who read a Satanic prayer in the city hall meeting, um, at, uh, Ottumwa in, um, Iowa, of which the, the, the Satanic temple there, uh, of which he is a member.

Um, again, I, I'm ...

We play this again just to underline the point that we mention here, and that is ...

Frank Walker

... gone up to the higher courts because this regime of so-called neutrality and calling Satanists a denomination of a religion, that needs to end.

Frank Walker, you've just actually said something quite incredibly perceptive here, and I hadn't thought of this, that this whole thing, this whole Satanic Temple thing, it could just be a stooge and a put-up on behalf of the militant secularists, um, who have been unable to convince the American people by reasoned argument that Christian prayer is inappropriate at town council meetings.

So having failed to win that argument with the American public, they're, they're, they're therefore producing these Satanists, um, to come up and exploit the opportunity of freedom of religion so that the, the wary, the battle-wary American public will say, "Well, you know what? Just let's have no prayer what- whatsoever.

... that's kinda where that idea...

Now, it is worth noting that some theistic Satanists do believe in Satan as a supernatural being, but groups like the Church of Satan and the Satanic Temple do not actually worship a literal devil.

But they don't even know if that's what they practiced.

People don't even know if that's what they practiced.

I love that.

The estate spent years in limbo, tied up by the savings Charles left behind and the valuable furniture that he had collected.

A friend of the men claimed that Charles had wanted to open a Satanic temple or a halfway house for prisoners on the land, but again, there's no concrete evidence of either plan.

It's also hard to tell because Charles could have been joking about like, "Oh, maybe I'll just start a temple here or something," and people could have thought he was serious.

They had an invocation recently delivered by a former city council member.

His name is Matt Dalby, and he's a member of the Satanic Temple of Iowa.

Yes.

And he gave a long, uh, invocation-

Yeah.

Out of the number one spot?

Number one spot, and the mayor's like, "We welcome Bast Sekmet of the Satanic Temple to present an invocation this evening." And-

And how did it go?

Um, this former council member, Matt Dalby, he opened in, in a prayer.

He is affiliated with the Satanic Temple of Iowa, and his prayer included rejecting religious doctrines, embracing the Luciferian pursuit of knowledge, and challenging traditional authority.

Now, after he prayed [laughs]-

So more than a ...

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he, he says, he says, "We need to just pause for a moment of prayer," and then he corrects himself, and he says, "We're gonna pause for a 30 seconds of silence." There's another council member that's just like, "This is all foolishness.

We need to get on with our meeting." And, um, so Dalby says the Satanic Temple does not believe in a literal Satan, and they have a policy starting this year that allows residents to volunteer to deliver the opening prayer.

And that passed four to one, and he's actually scheduled to do it again on November 3rd.

It's crazy.

The prayer is a common one used by the Satanic Temple of Iowa, and then, uh, they say the prayer demanding that individuals be judged for their concrete actions and all that other stuff, and dark lord this and that.

Another citizen, a pastor named Rick Bick, Pastor Rick, everybody has a Pastor Rick, don't they? Rushed to the podium and said, "Let's just reverse that curse that was just put on our city," he said.

"That ending with 'Hail Satan' and 'dark god,' that's not welcome here." "Mayor, that should not be...

But if you don't believe in those things, then you're technically not a religion.

And although all Satanists, like every other group of religious people, are filled with different interpretations and have different, um, denominations sort of, it's a little different with Satanism because it's more of a social, uh, kind of, uh, rebellious attitude more so than it is a doctrine or a, or a belief system per se.

Uh, but if you go to, for example, the Satanic Temple, their website says that they do not believe in the existence of Satan, nor do they believe in the existence of the supernatural at all, which means that those Satanists anyway would not have any religious rights.

And it's interesting because those groups, I find this interesting, those groups are really heavily reliant on political and social issues as the core of their belief.

So more kind of modern as the documentary Hail Satan.

From 2019, it follows the Satanic Temple.

It's about the actual history of the panic and the legacy of the organization itself.

It's a little, not lighter necessarily, but it's definitely a palate cleanser if you watch Paradise Lost and you want to understand some of the stuff deeper.

So I think there are internal contradictions that we don't talk about very much, but you see that, don't you?

Well, what, what you're leading to is that Matthew Dalby, who delivered this Satanic Temple invocation, has done us all a favor.

He did the city council a favor because he's forcing them to decide whose god is God, okay? What they're gonna do, here's the solution for this from their perspective.

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