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Thread ID: 15426 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-10-24
2004-10-24 14:30 | User Profile
The Western civilization continues its free-falling. The wrath of God is hanging upon Britain.
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3948329.stm[/url]
[COLOR=Navy] [SIZE=4]Navy approves first ever Satanist[/SIZE]
The British Armed Forces has officially recognised its first registered Satanist, according to a newspaper report.
Naval technician Chris Cranmer, 24, has been allowed to register by the captain of HMS Cumberland.
The move will mean that he will now be allowed to perform Satanic rituals on board the vessel.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Cranmer realised he was a Satanist nine years ago.
Religious values
At the time he stumbled across a copy of the Satanic Bible, written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey.
He said: "I then read more and more and came to realise I'd always been a Satanist, just simply never knew."
[SIZE=4]Mr Cranmer, who is from Edinburgh, is now lobbying the Ministry of Defence to make Satanism a registered religion in the armed forces. [/SIZE]
A spokesman for the Royal Navy said: "We are an equal opportunities employer and we don't stop anybody from having their own religious values."
The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco in 1966.
LaVey was its high priest until his death in 1997.
Followers live by the Nine Satanic Statements, which include "Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence", "Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek" and "Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification".[/COLOR]
2004-10-24 16:56 | User Profile
To me a religion is the people behind the religion and not the religion per se since to me ALL religon are nothing but black magic and a way to deceive the people.
2004-10-24 16:58 | User Profile
Tired hippie blathering, Ponce.
Petr
2004-10-24 21:42 | User Profile
Yeah, I knew a couple satanists in the army. No one took them seriously.
Come to think of it, if these guys had ever pressed for some sort of official recognition for their "religion", with the way the army regs were set up, I bet the brass would've had no choice but to allow it.
2004-10-25 00:29 | User Profile
On a related note.
[QUOTE]Jayne Mansfield
". . . Following an introduction to LaVey's Church of Satan, Mansfield insisted on meeting him. Upon their meeting, Mansfield came to embrace all of the Satanic doctrines, as well as pledged membership to the Church of Satan. Mansfield had a custom pink and black Baphomet medallion made for her, and as an avid promoter of Satanism even wore it to the 1966 San Francisco Film Festival. Mansfield's perseverance and determination within the Church soon escalated her to the position of High Priestess. This honor came with a certificate that she had framed and proudly hung in her bedroom. To compliment her occult studies, she also enveloped herself in witchcraft and black magic.
. . ."
[url]http://www.goodfight.org/hwjmansfield.html[/url] [/QUOTE]