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Showing Original Post only (View all)A Christmas Speculation: "Christian" Republicans are in fact Satanists [View all]
Yet these latter are the things that a great many Republicans, and in particular a great many of those Republicans who claim to be motivated by their Christian faith, have been pursuing in practice, if not always advocating in theory. If theyre deriving their commitments from a religion, its pretty clearly not the one taught by Jesus. Many people have made this same point in recent years, but it doesnt seem to have occurred to any of them that another religion thats active in todays America does teach all the things the GOP supports. That religion, of course, is Satanism, and more specifically the version of it taught in Anton Szandor LaVeys The Satanic Bible.
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As the number of devil worshippers in evangelical churches and the Christian end of the Republican Party increased, though, their most pressing need would have been some surreptitious way to signal their involvement to those who shared their convictions, without believers in the Christian gospel being any the wiser. Coming up with a Satanic shibboleth that would be instantly recognizable to other devil worshippers, but completely opaque to devout Christians, might seem like a tall order, but its one that seems to have been met with aplomb.
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A Christmas Speculation: "Christian" Republicans are in fact Satanists [View all]
Jessy169
Dec 2013
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and IIRC, it was in the Reagan era when the GOP re-oriented their logo stars...
alterfurz
Dec 2013
#24
IDK... I've tried to ignore 'em until it became impossible. Like Stephon King's Langoliers...
freshwest
Dec 2013
#28
Read it all, and am going to read the other articles there. Interesting perspectives. Re: the GOP:
freshwest
Dec 2013
#8