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Lucifer be

elub the Beast

Beast

Satan hail

Satan when you say Satan to me I think

God he has been called many names he has

taken many strange and different

forms the idea of God's evil enemy has

been around for thousands of [Music]

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years and it's still as powerful as

opposed but where did Satan's Story

begin where did he come from and how did

more than 3,000 years ago in the deserts

and pasture lands of the Middle East

unknown hands wrote the earliest

chapters of the Hebrew Bible

bble if the devil had a birthplace

surely it was here somewhere in the book

known to Christians as the Old

Testament in the oldest books of the

Bible a character called Satan does

appear but he's nothing like the Satan we

imagine when we read the Old Testament

we find that from time to time there is

this strange dark figure who pops up

called the Satan this the word the Satan

is actually uh a title the word means

the accuser and to begin with it seems

that the Satan is one of the Angels or

attendants in the Heavenly Court one of

God's servants who in a sense um had to

do some of the Dirty

Work This Satan has no power of his own

he does only what God tells him nor is

he a horrible creature with horns and a

tail there's no kind of Prince of

Darkness somebody who stands in opposite

to God throughout most of the texts

there's no concept at all of an evil

force one of Satan's earliest

appearances is as an angel in the Book of

Job in one of the best known stories in

the Bible Satan argues that job one of

God's most loyal servants is only Pious

life God agrees that Satan can test job

by inflicting on him all kinds of

calamities in the end in spite of

dreadful sufferings job continues to

argument the Satan who makes job's life

a misery isn't a demon or even a bad

Angel and he doesn't live in

hell there wasn't any kind of concept of

a hell

like we have you know a place of fiery

torment and torture in fact to the

ancient Israelites what happened when he

died was really very little you went to

a place called shaol and this was just a

sort of dark shadowy place a sort of

Underworld where everybody who died went

irrespective of whether you were good or

bad so where is the Satan we know

where's the fiend who's eternally at war

with the forces of good the monster who

rules over the flame of hell and

punishes Sinners where is the Fallen

Angel with his Legions of demon helpers

tempting humans to do evil things so

that he can win their

souls if the traditional devil doesn't

come from the Jewish Old Testament where

from since human history began people

all over the world have believed in

demons and evil spirits a few share some

traits with our devil like horns or a

beard but none are as powerful as

Satan so where did people first get the

being 3 and a half thousand years ago in

ancient Persia where Syria Iraq and Iran

are now there were many gods good and

evil until one man a religious teacher

called zoroaster reduced the whole

complicated cast of characters to

too zoraster is a revolutionary

primarily because he in one sense

personifies these ethical categories

into a good god auru Mazda and a bad God

aan and this is an extremely potent idea

and one which forms the basis for later

conceptions of dualistic thought in

other words the separation between good and

and

evil the good God is the all knowing

Aura Mazda the God of Light and

order the evil God is ahan God of chaos

lives in Zoro asra's teachings the

universe is a battlefield between the

gods of Good and Evil and every person

sides after death good people are

rewarded in heaven while Sinners are

hell it is one of those ultimate rather

attractive kinds of dualism uh that this

life is a struggle between good and evil

therefore choose good between light and

darkness therefore choose

light under the powerful Persian Emperor

Darius the great the teachings of

zoroaster become the official religion

of the Persian Empire an Empire which

includes the lands of Israel

the new Persian ideas about Good and

Evil soon find their way into the Jewish

scriptures so we get a clear demarcation

of what we would call Jewish Ideas okay

and we can spot the zarrian ideas in the

Old Testament they are there Notions of

Heaven and Hell okay the beginning of

actually seeing the devil personified as

as the Persian Empire in turn is

defeated by Alexander the Great Greek

Israel the Greeks introduce a huge cast

of gods and

goddesses including one who will shape

centuries Hades has a black face or

black beard

he sits on a throne often made of Ebony

and he wields a two-pronged fork not for

prodding Sinners but for blasting things to

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bits to the classical Greeks the

underworld was ruled by Hades who was

the god of the dead he was one of the

Olympian gods but he seems to spent most

of his time in this dark shadowy

underworld which is also called Hades

now he wasn't a very nice character he

seems to have been very morbid and

morose and nobody really liked him none

of the Gods liked him and certainly no

humans liked him Hades wasn't very

likable but he wasn't evil

either in fact the ancient Greeks see

Hades as a God of

Justice they believe that when people

die they go to Hades and he decides

whether they go to a place of happiness

as ruler of the world underground Hades

is also the god of wealth and

abundance in a dim memory of Hades

people have believed for centuries that

rich as well as the brooding character

of Hades the Greeks give the world

another familiar ingredient of the devil's

devil's

story in a famous myth Zeus the GRE

greatest of the Gods defeats the winged

serpent Typhon and throws him down to

underworld over the following centuries

the myth grows into the story of how the

angel Satan Rebels against God and is

followers Satan's allies the Fallen

when we think of hell we think of fire

lava and sinners being horribly

tortured but where did this picture come

from the underworld of Hades doesn't

have fire but ancient Jerusalem

does when we read the gospels we come

upon Jesus uh warning people that there

is this dangerous fate that might await

them and it's called gehenna which was

the old smoldering rubbish sheep in

ancient Jerusalem and because of the

stink of the place and because there was

so much in the way of rubbish

periodically it was set fire to and the

fires there would burn for several days

if not

weeks gehenna was the place where the

Jerusalem authorities burned the bodies

criminals over time the place came to

stand for something

Supernatural a spiritual fate that would

await the Wicked at the end of time

gehenna was the inspiration for the

Hell by the time the Christian gospels

are written towards the end of the first

century ad Satan has grown into a powerful

figure by now Jewish lands are ruled by

the mighty Roman Empire it was a time

when the Romans were hated

bitterly to many Jews and Christians

persecuted by Rome Satan is the evil

throne in the New Testament book of

Revelation the writer gives Satan one of

his most mysterious names the Beast

666 the Beast could refer to the Roman Emperor

Emperor

himself the author of Revelation says

that the Beast has a human number and

it's 666 now this is traditionally been

seen as um a reference to the emperor

Nero and that's because if you take Nero

Caesar in Aramaic and count up the

numerical values of um those letters it

666 the Book of Revelation says that the

devil was sent down by God into the

abyss where he will be locked up for a

thousand years years when he gets out

the end of the world will come an

apocalyptic battle will take place as

good and evil fighted out to the

end Satan will be let loose and will put

up a final attempt to um to rule the

world this is kind of the the dragon of

chaos back again this is evil opposed to

God so it's drawing on very very ancient

cosmological speculation not so much

from Judaism itself but from the

Persians so what does the devil look

like at the dawn of the Christian

era often he's got black skin and hair

like Hades ruler of the

underworld his wings Echo the story that

he was once an angel although they look

more like the wings of a dragon for

thousands of years the dragon was the

symbol of an evil

force and it's from the dragon that

feet when Satan isn't being a dragon

he's a

snake the serpent said to have tempted

Eve in the Garden of Eden has long been

believed to represent the devil although

the scriptures don't actually say

so in fact Christian leaders disagree

sometimes violently about what the devil

is like

but one thing they do agree on he is

busy working with and through their [Music]

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enemies four centuries after Christ a

Roman emperor Constantine the Great

Christianity within a generation the

once persecuted religion is the official

Creed of the mightiest Empire on

Earth Christian Bishops now have real

power backed up by the state and they

use Satan to help them keep

it again and again church leaders claim

that those who disagree with them

especially other Christian groups are

working for the devil as Constantine

made it the state religion and the state

church and an established religion what

Constantine and his immediate successors

found hardest to put up with was heresy

Catholic theologians would have said

that because Heretics didn't believe the

correct Catholic faith they must be

enemy the logic is Relentless it's us

and them if you're not with the church

and the Empire you're with

Satan it's a short step for the church

to demand that Heretics be put to

death the first exec utions come 450

years after Christ over the following

centuries the numbers of people killed

for supposedly working for Satan grows

thousands under the protection of the

Roman Empire the Christian religion

grows quickly but the Bishops worry that

the pagan gods are far too

popular thousands of Romans still prey

to the winged goddess Fortuna the

bringer of

luck but the most popular Pagan God of

all is

pan Christian leaders see him as a

discredited let's think of the case of

pan and uh in Arcadia and he becomes um

a sort of demon whereas he was actually

a very benign God of music and happiness

and love making and altogether to be

admired but becomes a a goat Legg demon

satire in the the later christianized

versions of

it Satan now adopts Pan's best known

features he becomes an ugly learing

head his body is hairy and he has pans

clove and Hooves although sometimes he

dragon so at landish has he become that

belly one of the greatest thinkers of

the early Christian Church is St

Augustine Augustine is Keen to show that

demons according to Augustine male

demons called incubi appear to women at

even more disturbing for Augustine

saintly men could be visited in their

beds by female demons called succubi and

forced to do sinful things against their

will when during The Long Dark Hours

their frustrated Minds produced all

sorts of sexual visions and erotic

pictures uh they had to expel these from

their minds well how on Earth could this

have come into my my Pious self at mind

it isn't me this is an entity this is

Evil by the Middle Ages after a thousand

years of Christian teaching the church

has persuaded its followers that the

devil and his demons are real and that

Satan is a powerful

enemy the problem is that some

Christians take the the idea a lot

further than the Bishops

want some branches of Christianity did

see the world itself as created not So

Much by Satan but by a a lesser evil God

and so for them of course everything to

do with with the world with matter with

human flesh was seen in in negative

terms we do find the emergence of

something called gnosticism Gnostic

Christians carried with them this very

clear notion of of a good God and a bad

God there's the good God who created

everything spiritual and there's the

evil God who created everything physical

which means that everything that you can

see or touch or sense with any of the

five senses is actually coming from the evil

God one group which is taking

enthusiastically to the Gnostic idea of

France to the cathars all material

possessions are evil and belong to the

devil for a church now wealthy and

Powerful this is an uncomfortable even dangerous

teaching the common people loved and

admired them called them leonam because

they were healers when the cers went

around doing good as they most certainly

did feeding the poor and Healing The

Sick So they were teaching people to

avoid marriage to avoid procreation

because all you will do if you have a

family is to bring that new child into

this decadent evil physical world where

spirituality if you were cist then you

were actually in League with Satan to

question the church was to question

God Pope Innocent thir and announced a

crusade against the cathars he tried to

convert them back to Catholicism that

hadn't worked the only thing he could do

now was kill

them The Crusade against the cathars

launched in 129 turns into a brutal

45-year War at least 100,000 people die

partly for saying that Satan is even

The Crusade against the cathars is

against fellow Christians but for almost

two centuries the Crusades are mostly

about fighting Islam for control of the Middle

Middle

East in medieval Europe Islam is seen as

devil Muslims too are quick to claim

their enemies are in League with the evil

evil

one in the Quran Muslims are in

instructed to fight against non-muslims

because they are friends of

Satan both sides inheriting the ancient

beliefs of the Persians see the world as

divided into good and evil justifying

Conquest the Crusades leave a Sinister

Legacy in the middle of the campaign

Pope Gregory V 9th founds the

Inquisition controlled by the Dominican

order of Friars the inquisition's job is

to find Heretics and hand them over to

local princes for

punishment the Inquisition gave people

plenty to be frightened of it gave them

the fires of Hell to be frightened of

and it gave them in a more immediate

sense the Inquisition itself they had

the right to arrest that person without

telling them who'd accused them or

indeed what they were accused

of the accused are guilty until found

innocent and can be held for as long as

the authorities

want anyone who questions the

Inquisition is immediately suspected of

devil in the fight against Satan and the

powers of evil medieval rulers believe

that as in any War information is

vital up till now the church has not

officially allowed Christians to be tortured

tortured

although torturing Jews and Muslims is

acceptable but in May 1252 Pope Innocent

IV rules that Christians suspected of

heresy can be tortured until they

confess they are working for the devil

and inform on co-conspirators once

you've set up a debate that defines

somebody as a Satanist as as a servant

of Satan then you have put them in a

position where you can do what you want

to them because you are justified by

working for the forces of

good generally once somebody had been

accused of heresy there was no way they

could clear themselves no matter what

they said because they were a heretic

therefore in League with the devil

therefore anything they said was like to

be a

lie but the torturers can't do whatever

they please they are supposed to follow strict

strict

guidelines in theory and according to

Pope Innocent 4 in this middle of the

13th century torture should be limited

it should not draw blood it should not

lead to Serious permanent damage to the

person who's being tortured in practice

these regulations are not always

followed but there's also something

which the psychologists would refer to

as a rationalization process that it

could all be very well for them to say

oh yes we are trying to save your

Immortal Soul we're trying to keep you

out of hell we're trying to prevent the

devil from getting you and what the they

farm all over Europe the new powers

supposed to be used against Satan are

used by the unscrupulous to seize wealth

or to do down their

enemies in 1307 King Philip the fair of

France brings witchcraft charges against

the leaders of the Knights Templar the

Crusaders Philip accuses the Templar are

worshiping a pagan Idol called baffet a

supposedly satanic

figure the Templars have been involved

in the Middle East in negotiations with

Muslims and some people in Western

Europe thought they had a Le league with

the Muslims and because the Muslims

everybody knew in inverted commas were

involved in Magic there is therefore a

hint that perhaps the Templars were

involved in Magic

too they were attacked and largely

destroyed on Friday the 13th of October in

1307 sealed orders given by Philip Lael

to his Cals to attack every Templar stronghold

stronghold

simultaneously ever since the purge of

the Templars Friday the 13th has been

seen as an unlucky day somehow connected

in 1320 the war against Satan is wound

up another

notch Pope John the 22nd orders the

Inquisition to Target any kind of

necromancy a big worry is that

unscrupulous priests who know how to

drive out Devils with the rights of

exorcism might instead use exorcism to

invite the devil

in formulas Latin formulas and rituals

which can be used to command the demon

now once you've got a Latin formula that

has power to command a Deon I could use

that to command a demon to do my washing

up you know I could use that power to

command a demon to get this woman I

fancy into bed the necromancers are

interested in using the formula of

exorcism to command demons to do other

things that they are interested in you

know a demon could make me Rich a demon

could find some hidden treasure for me

fear that necromancers and witches are

all around curing up demons and making

Europe one of the first cases

investigated by the Inquisition is in

Kilkenny in 1324 in a dispute over

inheritance one of the richest women in

the town Dame Alice CA is accused of witchcraft

witchcraft

heresy and of having a Demon Lover called

called

Robin Alice cayor a landowner in

Kilkenny who had several husbands so her

stepchildren bought a charge against her

that she'd poisoned her previous

husbands in order to obtain the land and

she' poisoned or killed them otherwise through

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witchcraft Alice manages to escape to

England her unfortunate servant pet

Trella is tortured and burned at the [Music]

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stake the campaign against necromancers

Sorcerers and witches lasts 300 years

and kills between 60,000 and 300,000

300,000

people the vast majority of the victims are

women women were thought of as being

more prone to the devil more likely to

sin more like to be led astray they were

also thought to be less intellectual

than men women were seen as closer to

animals and part of this was that they

were more susceptible to Temptation that

they were more easily seduced by material

gratification as the Inquisition goes

about its Grizzly business rounding up

suspects and interrogating them many

clerics and lay people worry that it's

all guesswork

perhaps they're missing even more

witches than they're

finding but how can you tell who is one

of Satan's

helpers what you need is a standard

test in 1486 two German Dominican monks

publish a textbook for inquisitors

called malus

witches the book contains a clever Catch

22 not only is witchcraft heresy not

believing in witches is heresy as well

malas malarum was the manual the how to

get rid of all these demonic fleas that

had infested a human being it was a book

of what witches were what witches did

malus maleficarum tells The Inquisitor

everything he needs to

know witches have the mark of Satan on

their bodies a birth mark or a

wart they can fly by rubbing magical

Herms on their skin and they gather at

Satan worshipping ceremonies called

sabbaths at these they celebrate a

twisted version of the Christian Mass

kissing the devil's rear end in a

Blasphemous Act of

homage certainly there was a fear at

that time which was why malus malarum

sold so many copies and ran through so

print 30 years after malas maleficarum

was written Martin Luther leads the

Protestant Reformation splitting the

Christian church in

two each faction Protestant and Catholic

claims the other is in League with the

evil one both sides use malas

maleficarum to find

satanists and not just in order to

destroy them

witch hunting is a kind of scientific

Quest the idea is if you can understand

witches and the devil you can fight

them the whole business of witch hunting

is is it's almost a sort of intellectual

research project I need to gather a bit

more data about you know what what

demons do so I'm going to interrogate a

few more witches to get a bit more data

and then I'm going to write it up in my

book The Cutting Edge of scientific inquiry

right across Europe hysteria about Satan

alike in Scotland James V 6th one of the

best educated Kings in Europe is so

caught up in the craze he writes a book

about the devil and

Witchcraft called

demonology James book sets up to prove

that Satan worshipping witches are

everywhere and that they are the gravest

threat to the SEC security of the [Music]

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state he surrounded himself uh with

advisors and mainly religious advisers

who would protect him from the demons

that he feared so much he saw it

everywhere well James was certainly um

quite militant about this he thought he

war even as James leads the fight

against the devil and the forces of evil

crown James can always point to the

figure of Satan and say if it weren't

place although this is quite frightening

uh it's also in a way quite gratifying

for James one of the witches who was

interrogated um was asked why is the

devil attacking our King and the witch

who was confessing allegedly answer this

is this is what was recorded anyway in

her confession um you the devil is doing

this because King James is the greatest

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world when the new world of the Americas

is colonized by Europeans the devil

the Puritan colonists who arrived from

England in the late 1600s are strong

Believers in the power of Satan they're

convinced that everyone who isn't a

Puritan is controlled by the devil and

that women are especially susceptible to Satan's

Satan's

Powers they had established what might

be called Puritan communities and we're

looking to build a great example for the

rest of Christendom if you were enjoying

yourself or if a group of you were

singing or dancing or having a drink

then those who were opposed to that kind

of fun were quite certain that Satan was

filling the glasses for

you in 1688 in Boston an Irish laundry

woman called Mary Glover is accused of

bewitching the children of one of her

customers proof of her pack with the

devil includes several rag dolls found

in her house Mary Glover was Irish and a

servant her first language was gaic and

one of the tests to prove that you

weren't a witch was to speak the Lord's

Prayer the linguistic difficulties meant

that she couldn't speak the Lord's

Prayer without his they saw it

1688 3 years after Mary Glover is hanged

less than 20 miles away at Salem

Massachusetts the testimony of three

execution some of the children were said

to be possessed by Spirits sent from the

witches and so when they were standing

witness they were effectively they were

possessed in the Salem Witch Hunt 150

people are

arrested 19 men and women are hung or

prison in an ironic Twist of the story

The Salem jury later apologize blaming

mistake by the 1700s the witch craze in

America and Europe is almost over

a new more scientific view of the world

is gaining ground modernism as the

project that we get from the 18th

century Enlightenment actually banished

religion Superstition and all of that

and just said that that belongs to the

Dark Ages we are now in the modern world

we believe in facts we believe in

science and if you want to be religious

that's a private option which you can go

and practice somewhere

else although the witch hunts have ended

and the educated classes of Europe and

America even start to question whether

the devil exists in the folk tales of

Ordinary People Satan lives

on but he's very different from the

formidable and terrifying devil of the witch

finders one of my own favorites is that

of Dunston who was a very powerful

blacksmith the devil arrives and asks to

have his shoes replaced and he simply

gets hold of his nose with two red hot

tongs and throws him out and that is a

very very different devil that's a devil

place by now the devil has shed some of

his ugliness and crude

habits in fact he's often a member of

the decadent

aristocracy he's a handsome gentleman

dressed in fine clothes and mixing in fashionable

fashionable

company like Hades the Greek god of the

underworld and the Satan of the ancient

Gnostic heresies this Satan controls the

material world of wealth power and

sex he can give all these things to you

soul the most famous of all devil

folktales is the story of

fa the devil in the form of the clever

and devious mephistophiles offers to

Grant fa all his wishes but but there's a

price one of the things that many

necromancers or people using necromantic

spells are interested in is how to get

women into bed f is very interested in

that and he gets all kinds of women

Troy fa's bargain with the devil ends in

disaster for fa mephistophiles calls in

his debt and Fa dies

horribly the devil takes him away to

as the power of religion Fades and the

age of popes and Kings gives way to the

age of Revolution and

scene this devil is utterly different

from the treacherous fiend of Christian

tradition he is a tragic and lonely figure

figure

a hero battling against tyrannical

Authority in the shape of a cruel and overbearing

God Satan is now a brave and handsome

Rebel and so you get the kind of

romantic view of Satan is not really a

villain or an evil person at all but the

opposite of that Satan is a good guy

who's challenging the

boss in the age of Roman anism we find

the The Poets particularly like Byron

creating a byonic hero who is somehow

dark and Sinister and has a past and so

far from being something to shun and

admired with the 20th Century the

devil's fortunes take a turn for the

worse no longer feared or admired he

becomes a figure of

fun he even joins the world of Commerce

helping to sell products from wine to

chocolates and

beer in the age of marketing and the

consumer Society Satan can bring the

lure of the forbidden to a tired

brand it's a long way from an apocalypse

itic war between good and

evil it has been a Hallmark of the 20th

century for the devil to be treated as a

figure of fun we find the devil is

neither better nor worse than the people

he's dealing with and he's just a man among

among

men Satan seems to have been cut down to

size the Prince of Darkness has become a mischievous

mischievous

imp but in a surprising twist a

different Satan the Glamorous Rebel so

admired by the revolutionaries of the

19th century makes a startling comeback

1960s there was a strong sense of

rebellion against everything that

Anointed The Western political power

structure and it was Christian it was um

capitalist it was um warmongering and so

the counter culture started exploring

anything that was counter to

that in

1966 OCC cult showman Anton La founds

the Church of Satan in San

Francisco part religion part

money-making racket the Church of Satan

attracts lured headlines mostly

encouraged by the publicity seeking L

himself we believe in greed we believe

in selfishness we believe in all of the

lustful thoughts that motivate man

because this is man's natural uh feeling

he called himself Anton sander L of

Romanian descent but the truth of the

matter is he was Howard Stanton Levy who

was born in Cook County Illinois in

1930 he held these weekend lectures and

witch circles in his house and people

would come in and pay their $2 ahead

well finally he had this friend it was a

publicist who said you know I have an

idea why don't you turn this thing into

a church you could make a bundle of

money and of course that's what he

did he has been called everything from a

Carney to a manipulator to a brilliant

philosopher the truth lies somewhere in

the middle are there were doctors

lawyers college students Factory workers

Farmers you name it they came from all

human in spite of the invented rituals

mostly staged for the cameras neither La

nor his followers believe in a real

devil what La admires is Satan the rebel

the non-conformist provoking The

Establishment predictably America is

1967 the 60s fascination with the occult

spearheaded by L's Church of Satan gets

a powerful Boost from

Hollywood the film Rosemary's Baby a

dark tale of devil worshippers in

Manhattan is a massive and unexpected

hit in Roman pansy's Masterpiece the

heroin's innocuous neighbors are part of

a satanic conspiracy to help the Prince

of Darkness father a child who will rule the

world in Rosemary's Baby Satan triumphs

in the end but the Christian backlash to

the story comes in the 1973 Blockbuster The

The

Exorcist this time the devil who has

possessed a young girl is defeated by

the forces of good in the shape of two

priests The Exorcist the old belief that

women are especially suscep to satanic

influence is revived two centuries after

the Salem Witch Trials we would be

seriously in error if we were to

underestimate the power of Hollywood I

think the biggest impact was probably

around the um the time of the The

Exorcist I know many people I've talked

to about the movie especially those

raised in a Christian household who are

very frightened by it very upset it's

the war between good and

evil but evil is in a whole new

dimension and it's very personal it it

made being possessed almost fashionable

the the numbers of people who were seen

to be possessed just took off I've been

invited to exercise uh people who were

convinced they had a demon uh and you

will you will get people who put them

through it um and it can be very violent

and very dramatic and and very

expressive but it can really flip

someone into serious serious ill health

Hollywood's discovery that fortunes can

be made with stories of possession and

devil worship Stokes the fires of a

paranoia that has Lain dormant since the

trials in the 1980s stories about a vast

conspiracy of organized satanists sweep the

the

media known as the satanic Panic

Christian groups allege Mass satanic

abuse of children and tens of thousands

of kidnappings

part of the satanic Panic started with

accusations of Satanic ritual abuse

groups of people who declared themselves

as Satanist were believed to be taking

people and children and damaging them

they were all kinds of dark suggestions

about children disappearing and about

child sacrifice and ritual

murder although hundreds of people are

arrested and imprisoned when the FBI

finally launches a fullscale

investigation in the United States it

concludes that the satanic abuse

groundless one of the horrifying things

about human nature is that it lends

itself to

hysteria uh you you get it in all

periods of History I think you get it

much more violently nowadays because uh

one of the most potent instruments for

spreading his

industry if members of satanic religions

mostly don't believe in a supernatural

devil and don't pray to Satan what does

the devil

represent some satanists claim the devil

stands for a spirit of

change a lot of people are frightened by

the term Satanism a lot of people

automatically think that satanists are

bad people they should be no more scared

of a Satanist then they should be scared

of anyone else they meet you know what

Satanism means to me is opposition and

balance alternative thought playing The

Devil's Advocate there is no good and

evil I mean to a mouse a cat is this

horrible evil thing with fangs but to

the pet owner the cat is Heavenly we

create our own reality that's the whole

idea behind

Satanism in United States surveys show

that almost half of Americans believe

the devil is

real even non-religious people

instinctively divide the world into good

and evil the opposing principles taught

Persians if anything recent events have

stronger in September 2001 the massive

terrorist attacks on the United States

which destroyed the World Trade Center

shocked America to its core to many it

seemed as if Sinister forces had gone on

the offensive it was easy to believe

that this was a showdown between the

forces of Good and Evil to the US

government and a large section of

American opinion the attacks were about

we've come to know truths that we will never

never

opposed you're either with us or you're

against us and if you're against us by

and large you're going to be working

hand inand with Satan it was Reagan that

talked about the evil empire Bush talks

about the access of Evo it's classic

in the wake of the 9/11 attacks

President Bush gave the job of catching

Osama Bin Laden the man responsible for

the atrocity to Lieutenant General

William G boyin but according to boyin

America's real foe isn't Bin Laden in

the General's words the enemy of the US

Satan since 2001 the Draconian measures

taken by the Us and other governments in

the war on terror are uncannily like

those of the war on Satan of 400 years

ago imprisonment without trial secret

hearings anonymous tip offs and

torture we are seeing a similar

willingness to to justify mistreatment

to justify the um the removal of Rights

the justifiable use of torture against

the perceived enemy in the war against

terrorism if you're fighting a war

against evil what begins to happen I

think is that you end up by turning into

the evil that you're

fighting controversially President Bush

called the invasion of Iraq a

crusade the similarities with the

historic Crusades against Heretics are

striking they include a belief on the

battlefield that the enemy are not just

Evil in November 2004 as US forces

launch a massive attack on the Iraqi

city of fua a senior Marine officer

Lieutenant Colonel Gareth brandle makes

clear who he thinks the enemy

is the enemy has got to face he's called

Satan he's in blue and we're going to

it's embroidery it's mythmaking it's

poetry it can be good fun except that it

has produced great evils a human

invention but one that's rebounded on us

because it's given us permission uh to

do terrible things to each other which

is why I think that we should close hell

down and finally banish the devil and

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