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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
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
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
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
in
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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