The Devil Incarnate (Part 6)
The Shapeshifting Synagogues of Satan
It’s been a long time since I last updated this series. There have been drafts of other chapters since then, partially realized, but put on stand-by. What I’ve come to realize is that I’ve been waiting for some “thing” to happen, to help me finetune my 6G goggles and gain some fresh perspective.
The thing in question turned out to be a certain wealthy and famous idiot, muttering a particular string of words. He is part of a long tradition of similar fools, who rose to prominence during the age of the MIMIC (Military Industrial Media Intelligence Complex).
But before we examine these fools in detail, we’ll take a closer look at what the foolish religion of Satanism really is, underneath its many masks.
Chapter List:
Part 1: Please allow me to introduce himself...
Part 2: Machina ex Deus
Part 3: Guardian of the Veil
Part 4: The Monster Mash
Part 5: Laboratories of Evil
What if I told you there exists a religion that’s also not a religion, and at the same time a parasitic anti-religion?
And what if I told you the followers of this contradictory, shapeshifting religion both believe and disbelieve in the existence of its god? That its petitioners are encouraged to simultaneously worship themselves as they make blood offerings, even of their own children? That its priests embed themselves like ticks in shadowy government agencies and intelligence networks, but can also be unmasked with light research, or via their own deranged public confessions?
What if I said the “god” at the center of this religion favors disbelief over belief, and yet still demands worship and sacrifice in its name? That it desires to be both seen and unseen, ignored and adored? That it presents itself as an Invisible Man with an invisible hand, but is so vain and prideful that it can’t help but constantly expose itself?
And what if I mentioned that this paradoxical, parasitic creature and its groupies see themselves as superior to their Creator in every way, but also can’t escape His rules or symbols? That after every attempt to corrupt and invert them blows up in their faces, they just double down? That their religion is obsessed with progress and transformation, yet hasn’t changed across thousands of years?
Sounds pretty crazy, huh?
Here’s a few more elements of this totally insane and obviously fictional religion, which nobody in a position of power and authority has ever practiced.
(excerpted from Rainbow Blight, Part 3)
Church of the Rainbow
If we were to list out the distinguishing features of a fully fledged Rainbow Cult, it might go a little something like this:
Awash in the gaudy, clashing imagery of deconstructed light.
Rooted in a non-Abrahamic or heretical magical tradition, complete with occult practices, icons and terminology.
Obsessed with transformation, sexual liberation and earthly enlightenment.
Practitioners will often craft elaborate illusions, perform sacrifices and summon demons to assist in their pursuit of wealth, power, sex and other materialistic goals.
To advance these goals in relative safety, they employ many secret methods, and disguise themselves in the language of kindness, tolerance, diversity, respect, science, safety and other innocuous-sounding bromides.
Operating under this camouflage, they systematically infiltrate and eventually seize control over artistic, academic, corporate and political institutions, keeping their most disturbing motive hidden until the moment to unmask themselves seems to be ripe.
They’re coming for your kids.
Like its master, the Church of the Anti-Covenant has gone by many names, so I won’t bother ticking them off here. The Rainbow Brigade of sexual deviants chanting “Pride” is just one of its more visible modern ministries, deployed as trolling shock troops and cannon fodder. The church includes other more secretive projects and agents, and employs far less obvious tactics to achieve its goals.
As usual, we can follow the money to trace many of these camouflaged religious subsidiaries to their source. When we do, we find those money trails lead not only to banks and financial asset managers, but to a vast array of black market cartels trafficking in drugs, kidnapping, financial fraud, child pornography, organ theft, terror cells, wars-for-profit, and more, with nodes scattered across governments, NGOs, “traditional” religious institutions, and other puppet franchises.
But whether it’s the bloodless cubicle-monkeys of the managerial regime, the banking wizards working the money laundries, the drag queen storytelling mutants, the Molechian nursemaids of Planned Parenthood, the glamour vendors of Hollywood, the Talmudic porno-kings, the Gaia-worshipping Malthusians, the pharmaceutical houngans, the prosperity preachers of Mammon, the dispensationalist war-funding fundies, the Silicon Valley Basilisk-summoners, or the Lavender mafiosos of Rome blessing the whole perverted enterprise in Christ’s name, they are all part of the same religious organization, oriented towards the same telos and the creature who both facilitates and personifies it.
It is axiomatic that evil hides in complexity (e.g. “The devil is in the details”). To assume that the religion of Evil Itself is disorganized merely because it has so many complicated and fiddly parts is a mistake of cosmic proportions. Order and chaos are not analogs for good and evil. The first pairing is a mechanical evaluation of present function within a system, not its teleological purpose.
For example, the development of the atom bomb required a high degree of order and organization, even though its ultimate purpose was the destructive disordering of the target. Once we understand Satanic worship as an organized religion, we can strap on our 6GW goggles and begin to see and target all of its weak hinges. There are many of those.
Some are rooted in trust dynamics and game theoretic outcomes, where the players can’t help but betray. Others can be seen in the feedback loops, error cascades and other common failure modes of complex systems. But the weak hinge I want to expose in this article is much more basic:
Satanism has a personnel problem.
It is a religion that attracts low quality people by default. Their deficiencies emulate those of its spiritual master, Lucifer, which led to its own fall. They are that creature's fractal offspring, the “sons of the evil one” in the “synagogue of Satan” as Christ described.
This goes double for the synagogue’s leaders, a few of whom I’ll describe along the way. These were broken men with broken minds, whose quests for ultimate power and immortality in the flesh ended more or less as you’d expect. Sometimes with a bang.
Their error was fundamental, but inverted at such a distant node that none of them could spot it until it was too late. What happens when you adore a “god” who plies you with candy, but who secretly hates your slimy guts? The answer is something akin to the kid who ends up in the back of a white van, and is never seen again.
But before we get to these useful idiots, and how they each got chewed up and shat into the Void, let’s a have closer look at the structure of the synagogue itself. Where did it come from? Where is it going?
We know it has many rites and rituals, which tend to mutate over time at the surface level of observation. We also know that it’s full of drama club Halloweenies, who like to play dress-up and wear elaborate costumes. Many of them are gifted liars, who show up to the party double and triple masked as per CDC guidance. That’s why so many of them wind up entangled in spy rings and crime cartels, where lying about their true motives and beliefs can serve to expand their fields of action and agency in the principalities of Man.
But does the religion of Satanism also have a dogma? A rule that never changes, no matter the design of its latest fancy mask? Something that the petitioner must do, in order to appease his master?
The answer is, “Yes and no.” Yes, because there is a rule. No, because the master is never appeased, no matter how well the rule is followed. That’s due to an innate flaw in the nature of the Satanic entity.
Or a bug, if you will.
The Glitch King
Just as demons are real entities, so is the thing that governs them. The Devil is not a mindless urge or abstraction, but a creature that pursues its goals intelligently over time and can manifest material results. We can say that it aligns perfectly with a telos of destruction, but it isn’t purely teleological in nature. The entity at the center of Satanic worship thinks and acts within the bounds of spacetime. That’s why it hasn’t won yet.
Or, given fracture and rebellion are inherent to the telos, maybe the entity changes periodically. It could be that the King of Hell is more a title than an individual; a crown every slave continually grasps at. That would suggest a shared cross-species failing that aligns with the illogical motive of Evil Itself. “To reign in Hell” sounds like fun until you realize all your subjects have knives behind their backs, just like your dumb ass did.
But whoever (or whatever) happens to be running the show, the plan remains roughly the same: Start the war of All vs. All, and then win it.
12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphra′tes, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs; 14 for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 15 (“Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!”) 16 And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew Armaged′don.
— Revelation 16:12-16
Instead of a recipe for defeat, Revelation is reframed as the beginning of a New Luciferian Age, and its villains recast as heroes and immortal titans. “The Beast” in particular represents a starring role in their fanfic rewrite, and so you’ll find actors in every generation auditioning for the part.
Spoilers: it doesn’t turn out well for them.
While a few candidates manage to achieve short term gains, and clamber up the rungs of various spy rings and other shadowy institutions, their obsessive need to Boast always short-circuits their ability to effectively Beast. And once you’ve declared yourself the latter, you can’t put that toothpaste back in the tube.
That’s because the WannaBeasts are in fractal alignment with their master, who also can’t help but continually blow up his own spot. In Part 2, I analogized the LU-cipher operating system as a piece of brilliantly written software, plagued by a fatal bug that no amount of code updates could ever patch.
Goal A: Evil power is rooted in secrecy. To openly demonstrate the full extent of your power is to rouse suspicion and potentially suffer consequences for your crimes. The most powerful king is therefore the Invisible King, pulling puppet strings and manipulating events behind the scenes. To gain enough power to conquer reality and usurp God, the Devil must remain hidden in deep shadow.
Goal B: Power is worthless without recognition of the one who wields it. The exiled king doesn’t just crave monetary tribute, but admiration for his great beauty and strength, and for the brilliance of his schemes. He yearns to be worshipped and adored by the very same people he torments, enslaves, and destroys, as an act of final vengeance against his Exiler.
Essentially, you have a system where the bottomless narcissistic hunger for praise stands in unresolvable conflict with an equally insatiable lust for ultimate power and control. Every time a operation is revealed, more operations are required to reestablish secrecy up and down the chain. In programmatic form, this contradiction would might look like a DDos fork bomb: an infinite recursion loop of resource-gobbling operations, inevitably leading to a crash. Or a Fall, if you will.
Many psychopathic human serial killers seem to be infected by an isolated version of the same fatal bug, most evident in the form of letters sent to the media and investigators, trademark symbols left behind at crime scenes, etc. The notion that such a killer “wants to get caught” has been long debunked in forensic psychology research. What the killer wants is to feed his malignant narcissism and destructive appetites while maintaining his anonymity for self-preservation.
To assist with the latter, he’ll often wear one or more elaborate masks.
A textbook example would probably be Dennis Rader (aka the BTK Killer). Rader maintained a double life as a local church leader for more than thirty years. Yet his obsession with sending taunting letters and packages to police and media outlets would ultimately spell his doom. Ego ultimately trumped not just his survival instincts, but his hunger to dress up like creepy dolls and murder people.
David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, who also sent self-aggrandizing letters, claims he was a member of a Satanic cult. “Nightstalker” Richard Ramirez left behind inverted pentagrams to declare his religious affiliation, which he confirmed after capture. “Zodiac” left behind a treasure trove of breadcrumbs that speak to his religious devotion. Meanwhile, a killer like BTK seems to only be implicitly Satanic in his function. It’s clear that Rader displays the same fatal glitch, cursed with a grandiose ego that eventually blew his cover. But in court and later interviews, he still refers to himself as Christian, and only makes vague references to a spiritual force he calls “Factor X” that supposedly drove him to commit his crimes.
Since Rader killed while wearing Christian camo, his refusal to name his master might constitute a kind of diabolical omerta instead of inner blindness. We don’t know the details of his contract (or if he even “signed” one). We also need to take into account the concept of inversion, which is central to the dogma. But if your father is the Father of Lies, does lying about your parentage then somehow make you perversely loyal? In other words: Does Rader’s refusal to worship Satan by name make him the most devout Satanist of all?
Probably not. I suspect the most “devout” Satanist would also be granted more material success in the world, in order that he or she could exert greater influence and hurt more people. These lone-wolf devil worshippers may be pious, in the sense of the chaos and carnage they leave in their wakes. But they are also like monks in a desert, who pass through the living world without leaving much of an impression beyond their limited set of transactions outside the monastery. I also imagine that no Satanist worth his salt would give credit to any being or “force” greater than his own indomitable will. Or at least, not for long.
That’s because all powerful Satanists seem to fall for the same magic trick. Like most tricks, it involves a mirror, and a particular face that every high priest of Satan’s Synagogue eventually sees staring back across the glass.
Before we look at them, let’s have closer look at various manifestations of their church over time. Bear in mind that it’s a Church of Progress, in the sense that it’s always adapting new doctrines and forms, but that each of these seemingly novel expressions are merely masks worn to disguise a religious structure that might be literally older than dirt.
That Old Time Religion
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzlin’ you
Is the nature of my game
Get down, damn it!
— “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones (1968)
The entity identified with Evil Itself has gone by many names, spoken in many languages and lands over thousands of years. Even its more modern devotees disagree on what to call this creature, which was partly the reason for the hilarious schism that ripped through Anton LaVey’s “Church of Satan” in the 70’s. I usually call it by that name too. Why is that?
The short answer is that “Accuser” seems to be its most longstanding and relevant quality in the wake of the Fall, hidden behind every mask and mantle. Its appetite for innocent blood requires scapegoating, and the ultimate scapegoat is God Himself. According to the entity’s inverted picture of reality, its exile was an unrighteous act, committed by a jealous demiurge. The entity’s scapegoating reached its apotheosis at Golgotha, after God chose to walk the Earth in the person of the Son.
But it has other identifying qualities. The Accuser is also the Trickster God, the Weaver of Illusions, the Deceiver and Betrayer. It is also the King of Hell, the Prince of Darkness, The Rebel Son, and the Father of Lies. It can manifest as Kinslayer and Oathbreaker, bringing the ruin of nations in its wake. You might even call it the Crown Prince of Crime, as it considers itself quite the cosmic comedian.
You’d think these traits and titles would be enough to ward off any potential followers. But the Father of Lies is also the Master of Disguise. And so to certain confused truth seekers, the entity looks like the Guardian of Light, promising access to spiritual knowledge and divine truth. To others, it presents itself as the Candyman, granting the initiate material riches, hedonistic pleasures, and supernatural powers. What does it want in return for all these goodies?
Aye, there’s the rub.
Anyway, I suspect all of these traits were once perceived as fully integrated in one being. In the wake of a global catastrophe, shards of this religious figure were shot in every direction, landing in deserts and forests, sunny beaches and icy wastes. One god became hundreds or thousands of mini-godlings, each one syncretized with the worst traits of its local tribe or region. It was via these cults that some of the older ways were preserved, but typically only in piecemeal form. They worshipped demons, but not necessarily the Devil.
Yet echoes of that older, more completed form of worship seemed to have survived the Flood. I think the most intact version of the original synagogue was probably found in Mesoamerica, for example, where some of Satan’s most devoted sycophants went about building one of his most sophisticated churches.
The New World empires had not just preserved but pseudo-industrialized many core elements of that religion, including ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism. Devil worship was fully integrated with their economies and social life, to the extent that no one questioned its premises. They even fed their own children to the hungry demons, in full alignment with Old Babylon.
So fanatical was their devotion that Quetzalcoatl didn’t even try to hide its true identity amongst the Aztecs. Their god was a winged serpent who created the world, and who granted technological knowledge, material abundance, the development of science, commerce, and art.
For a price, of course.
And yet, we’re advised not to confuse the Aztec’s religion with Satanism. The usual suspects in academia have even been trying to whitewash its legacy (or maybe the better term would be “brownwash”, these days, given their current set of perverse incentives and priorities). There’s even a twinge of haughtiness in there:
How could a bunch of darkies build a Satanic Church so perfectly realized, it makes Aleister Crowley and his Golden Dawners look like a bunch of benchwarmers and also-rans?
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations!
Their church was far from “perfect”, of course, and was consequently wiped away like a tear upon first contact with the cross. All of their magic and knowledge failed them, as their demonic gods fled back into the shadows of the land. Various factions began turning on each other, even forming alliances with the conquistadors in the hopes of seizing Montazuma’s guttering crown. But in the end, all that was left of their empire were half-remembered myths and overgrown ruins.
We could say that’s because the Dragon they worshipped has a bottomless hunger, and so will eventually devour even its most devoted priests. It was only a matter of time, which was something even their astrologers attested to. They were just wrong about the date, and the mechanism.
But that also begs a question: What counts as “devotion” in an upside-down church, whose parishioners worship a Master of Disguise? Why describe the Dragon’s form with such exactitude, when its greatest power since the Flood days has been its cloak of invisibility? Maybe those Aztecs weren’t so devoted after all.
Or maybe the model just got stale. Satan prizes progress and innovation, which it sees as the key to outwitting the Mind of God. And so here have been, and continue to be, more intricate and reverent forms of devil worship, which play to the Enemy’s strengths as Trickster and Deceiver.
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
— John 8:42-44 (RSV)
Through His revelation to John of Patmos, Christ speaks of the “synagogue of Satan” and “the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not” (Revelation 2:9), whose members accuse and falsely imprison the faithful while wearing masks of holiness and virtue.
I think that sounds more like a fully realized Satanic Church than anything the Mesoamericans contrived. The high priests and temple whores would preach and quote scripture all the livelong day, while twisting its meaning like the Devil in the wilderness. Meanwhile the religion’s formal elements would comport neatly with the latest in surveillance tech and authoritarian political structures, through which envy and wrath could be weaponized on an industrial (and global) scale. There would be still be mass sacrifices, torture, cannibalism, and brutal dehumanization of every kind, just like the Olden Days. But now they would be done in the holy name of God, making Satan’s revenge complete.
That’s the plan, at least. At each new evolution of form, the Enemy gains new weapons and agents with which to pursue its final victory. The most important thing to understand about the devil’s religion is that it is primarily spiritual, despite the many materialistic flunkies it employs. It is also eschatological without being chilasmic; its followers believe the world will “end”, in a manner of speaking, and that a new one will be reborn from its ashes. They just swap out the losers with the winners.
So where are we at, in that eschatological timeline?
Here’s a different question: Do the events of Revelation describe a singular timeline of events, with a fully defined beginning, middle, and end? Or are its inciting elements rather parts of a story that Satan and its minions are constantly striving to speak into existence, across every age and generation since Christ came? Is it not one False Prophet, one Whore of Babylon, one Beast 666, but rather a string of failed candidates and incomplete projects that blew up on the launch pad?
If it’s the latter, then perhaps all former “debunked” claims of End Times signs are less a matter of the observer’s mistaken pareidolia than of a counteracting force, which manages to break each new version of the narrative before it could fully immanentize.
When we look at secular models that describe observable historical patterns (e.g. Strauss-Howe or Turchin cycles), what’s missing from them is strategic planning and agency. They exclude consciousness by design, reducing the rise and fall of societies and systems to something akin to weather patterns.
What’s also typically missing is the notion of opportunities for increased wisdom and growth, either after each cycle completes or at one of its intermediary nodes. Which is a bit odd, given most proponents of these views also seem to subscribe to the neo-Darwinism synthesis (which, as you may or may not know, has already been scientifically debunked).
We could make the same criticism about those readings of Revelation that also remove all agency and consciousness from the events described. These readers constitute the theological version of the player-piano geneticists and “emergent consciousness” determinists, who believe all the minutiae of future existence is preordained. Or they’ll say they believe that; they sure don’t act like it. That’s because, in the ultimate heresy of heresies, they think that God needs their help to kickstart the final war. It is End Times as a game of dominos, and the Prime Mover is replaced by a bunch of scheming politicians, financiers, and other princes of the world.
What they might not know is that this picture of Revelation was sold to them by a bunch of Satanists masked as Gnostics masked as Jews masked as Christians. Doctor Fauci would be proud.
(excerpted from Old Glory Club’s post, “The Rot of Dispensationalism in the American Right”)
Dispensationalism represents a theological framework within protestant theology that examines the roles of biblical covenants, the nation of Israel, the church, and eschatological (End Times) events. Unlike orthodox (historical Protestantism and Catholicism) thinking, wherein the Church has been grafted into God’s promise to his people, Dispensationalism separates that of the Church and Israel in Old Testament prophesy and revelations and says that rather than the Church being a continuation of God’s promise to Israel, it is a new creation entirely and only relevant to the New Testament. They pull passages from the Old Testament like Ezekiel 36–37 and say that God is talking about a literal ethnic nation state instead of the church and her people. Paul addresses and refutes this kind of thinking in his Letter to the Romans in chapters 9–11.
The history of this theological framework can be attributed to three men: John Nelson Darby, who hammered out this theological framework in his Collected Writings of J.N. Darby (1866–81); Dwight L. Moody, who founded the Moody Bible Institute, which was key in helping to push this framework; and then finally C.I. Scofield, whose Scofield Reference Bible, published in 1909, helped push this framework to the American Evangelical Church. This helped make Dispensationalism massively popular in the American church. This is not a view that is held by a majority of Christians outside of the United States, and is a view that did not exist prior to the late 1800s.
It is possible that some of the salesmen of this crazy, newfangled heresy know exactly what they’re doing and why. But in analyzing Satanism, we encounter many of the same difficulties as we do trying to disentangle spy agencies, criminal cartels, and other clandestine networks, which are structured in such a way to severely restrict the flow of information. Agents receive data on a need-to-know basis, such that the exposure of one person or project won’t sink the whole enterprise.
Therefore we’d have to assume that some fraction of the Satanic flock is essentially “innocent” in their hearts and minds. They either don’t know what they’re doing, or think they’re doing something good. These men and women can see a little ways past the Veil but, like an astronaut adrift in space, have lost track of which way is up.
At a certain point in their religious training, they may even begin to believe that the ends justify the means, and consciously sin in God’s name. Murder for Jesus. Rape for the Lord. Loot and pillage for God Almighty (or for “Yahweh” or “Allah”, depending on which plank in Satan’s synagogue you stand).
In keeping with their Church of Contradiction, these religious agents simultaneously believe the End Times are inevitable, but also that they are the product of their own decisions and acts. They presume they’ll be rewarded for their holy sins, when all is said and done, never suspecting the path leads to a particular kind of mouth.
But as I mentioned at the top, Satanism is also a non-religion, practiced by people who only see the material side of Creation. This faction contains atheists who can’t conceive of any truth beyond their subjective circumstances, and also nihilists who don’t believe in truth at all. For them, Revelation and similar prophecies are merely works of fiction or delusion, along with the entire catalog of religious thought.
How many Satanists does this unbelieving faction represent?
In our current day and age, I think it’s nearly all of them.
Fake and Gay for Satan
It’s my opinion that most of Satanism’s contemporary congregants don’t even realize they’re in a church at all. If they do attend some kind of church, the transactional being they worship is only the Enemy in a cheap Halloween mask, issuing comforting delusions that reduce Christianity to self-help guruism and liberationist platitudes, and the Triune God to a petitionary gumball machine.
Ironically, the men and women hawking these degenerate heresies are probably the most faithless atheists the world has ever seen, laughing all the way to the bank (or the private jet).
To quote that atomic bomb of a film Ishtar: “These men are pawns.” They are useful insomuch as their obvious rackets might serve to discredit the faithful. I get the feeling scam artists like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland no more believe in the Devil than they do the resurrection. Despite their presentation, they see the world the same as any secular, science-minded progressive, thinking their opinions and actions are based on rational evidence and authoritative theories.
It’s thanks mainly to this bunch that people that most people stopped believing in the existence of the entity, and also of God Himself. When men stridently bilk religious folk out of their money and zip around on private jets, what need is there for a Devil? And when they do it while spouting scripture, what kind of God wouldn’t strike them dead on the spot?
Why would you even need a Satanic religion, at that point? How could any Satanic preacher ever top this diabolical chode?
Some researchers will tell you that there’s no such thing as “Satanism” per se, in the sense of a formal, centralized religion. Or at least, they’ll claim that what we see of it today is No True Satanic Scotsman. Like all those neo-druids and Odin-Oglers, they’re just the latest wave of antichristian trolls playing dress-up. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
This claim seems accurate at first glance, since the groups in question typically are jampacked with rank-and-file atheists in drag, and with leaders who parasitize Christian symbolism for fun and profit. Indeed, many of today’s mainstream Satanic marketplace expressions seem to be custom-fit for a generation defined by snarky slacktivism and irony. The target demo is the more or less the same folks who’d buy a pre-destressed Che Guevara T-shirt at a premium.
Even the inversion of God’s sign of the covenant probably isn’t taken seriously by the average Pride parader or “ally”, most of whom probably aren’t even aware of the manmade rainbow’s sacrilegious intent. Just as their masters groom kids with Hollywood propaganda and Drag Queen Story Hours, they themselves were groomed as kids, and part of that grooming process was designed to disable their critical thinking skills.
As a result, they become “feminized” not just in their affects and sexual habits, but in their smoothly hollowed-out minds, which have been converted into pure receptacles into which any outrageous lie could be poured and internalized as truth. That’s why yesterday’s “truth” can be easily so discarded or replaced with its opposite. The Satanic NPCs aren’t so much hypocrites as they are hylics: empty vessels fit to carry and transmit memetic commands.
The Devil’s latest hare-brained scheme seems to be to generate a networked army of such programmable zombies, who will go through the motions of his perverse rituals and abet his evil schemes with no awareness of any ulterior motive or master plan. From their perspective, they’re just having fun, and stickin’ it to the Man!
And so while “Gay for Satan” merch looks like a major innovation on the surface, look closer and you’ll see it’s really just a minor tweak on an aging sales pitch. In some ways, it’s reminiscent of the kind of pop-Satanism that infused a lot of hard rock and heavy metal in the 70’s and 80’s. The major difference is that, back in those days, children still longed to be “adults”, in a certain manner of speaking.
For them, adulthood just meant being children with increased autonomy and agency. They wanted to stay out all night, make loud noise, drink and smoke and screw to their heart’s content. Metalhead Satan was basically a figurehead of rebellion against Mom, Dad and Uncle Sam, circumventing all of their seemingly arbitrary rules. They wanted all the rights without any of the responsibilities, all candy and no spinach. They also sensed power in the symbols themselves, even if it was only the social power of provocation. There was more to it than that, but they were probably too stoned to notice. Some demons can hide forever in a puff of smoke.
I’m sure some of them took it a step further, and attempted to transact with the actual agents. But I’d also bet the ones they reached were low level flunkies at best, too incompetent to stay camouflaged. You’d even be forgiven for thinking that demons who showed up to the game without their costumes are secretly playing for the Home Team.
OTOH: Hanlon’s razor.
Since then, the old sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll model of Teen Rebel has given way to an aggressive case of Peter Pan Syndrome. At some point after the turn of the millennium, the new battle cry of youth flipped from “Freedom!” to “Safe Spaces!” And because large swathes of the American economy had been held in thrall to youth markets since the 1950’s, this triggered a variety of adjustments to accommodate the new demand.
In the music industry, the shift eventually resulted in “Satanic” acts that were even more kitsch and cringe than Ozzie Osbourne or Slayer, but with almost none of theatrical “darkness” peddled by the hardcore metal scene. While rock’s most infamous edgelords toyed with diabolical sigils and grotesque horror, the latest batch of Satan’s balladeers looked and sounded like Saturn’s Day morning cartoons.
Case in point: At the 2023 Grammy Awards, singer-songwriters Sam Smith and Kim Petras raised a minor stir, with a stage performance that resembled what I assume crappy, cliched Off-Broadway musicals look and sound like in whichever level of Purgatory torments Broadway patrons.
Smith and Petras performed their No. 1 hit “Unholy” with plenty of red clothes, fires, and the kind of horns you can find at Party City. David Harris, magister for the Church of Satan, told TMZ that the performance was “nothing particularly special,” noting that plenty of other artists had used the same kind of iconography.
While we can disagree about the quality of the rendition, most viewers would concur that there was nothing unusually scandalous about the set — unless you’re a Republican. Senator Ted Cruz called their performance “evil,” while Congressional reps Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene used the Grammys to tie Satanism to abortion and spread anti-vaccine conspiracies.
I kind of agree with the “nothing particularly special” part. Let’s have a look at some of these diabolical lyrics, shall we?
Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot
At the body shop, doing something unholy
He’s sat back while she’s dropping it, she be popping it
Yeah, she put it down slowly.
Great googly moogly, that’s atrocious.
And no, I don’t mean that I need a trip to Ye Olde Victorian fainting couch. It’s just lame. I’ve heard dirty limericks with more artistic depth (and that scan much better, too). In the age of automated slop, it’s become a cliche to say, “An AI could’ve written a better song.” But in this case, it’s sounds accurate.
The words themselves certainly don’t shock the conscience, any more than the imagery of Smith’s Spirit Halloween dance party did. The Satanic sock puppets of Hollywood and the music industry are clearly running out of ways to shock us, and particularly within the margins of our legacy broadcast mediums. The same goes for the annual pseudo-Satanic Theater of the Bizarre that’s become the Superbowl Halftime Show.
I imagine the Aztec faithful would’ve scoffed at this so-called “ritual.”
Where’s the pile of headless corpses? The still beating heart, carved fresh from the chest? The stew of boiling man-meat?
Your ‘god’ sounds pretty fake and gay to me.
Smith’s act was even tame by the standards of broadcast media. For instance, there was nary a nip-slip or exposed winkie in sight, mutilated or otherwise. You could probably find something a thousand times more obscene by searching Pornhub for thirty seconds. But like a white man’s version of counting coup, ‘the goal probably wasn’t to shock, but to openly mock. “Look what we can get away with, you puny Christcucks! Hardy har-har.”
It was the same deal at Rhianna’s Superbowl halftime show, or the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. Were they rituals? Yeah, sure. But the Aztec guy has a point; when you worship a Devouring Dragon of a god, every ritual is dinner theater. A meal is expected with the show.
My short answer is that some meals take longer to cook than others.
The TMZ writer also opines that “most viewers” would agree with the lack of scandal. I suspect this theory is spot-on, too; if you were one of the 12.4 million souls who tuned in to watch the Grammys that year, chances are you were already groomed to either dig it or snore. In fact, the mask only dips slightly with the phrase, “[Republicans] used the Grammys to tie Satanism to abortion and spread anti-vaccine conspiracies.” This is an interesting way to put it. It may also provide you a clue about where all those “missing sacrifices” have been hiding in plain sight.
But the claim still lacks internal coherence. After all, it’s clear the writer and the show’s presumed audience are all pro-abortion and pro-vaccine. So why would tying those opinions and practices to “Satan” be a problem? Are they also anti-Satan? But if they are, then why didn’t the show’s Satanic theme disturb them? And if they don’t believe in Satan, then what does any of this even matter?
Welcome to the Cult of Contradiction. The Church of Nothing Makes Sense.
But welcome also to a Temple to Tedium. None of what they did was new or innovative, and I’ve seen PG-13 horror flicks with more disturbing visuals. Even their games of guess-my-pronoun feel played out; Sam Smith is apparently “non-binary” (whatever that means), while Kim Petras is just another voluntary eunuch in a skirt.
That old gag?
To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours, Inanna.
To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.— from Hymn to Inanna, High Priestess Enheduanna (2285-2250 BCE)
The point is there’s nothing new here. It’s more reminiscent of Screwtape’s admonition to his graduates, who would offer blander temptations in exchange for increased volume of souls. Quantity over quality. But in this case the quality was so low, even the official, tax-exempted Church of Satan™ was unimpressed.
David Harris, magister for the Church of Satan, tells TMZ ... Sam and Kim’s performance was “alright” and “nothing particularly special.”
Harris, who’s pretty high up in the Church of Satan (kinda like a cardinal), says the imagery evoked in Sam and Kim’s set is similar to what folks have already seen from other artists -- red clothing, fire and devil horns -- and it’s all kind of passé now.
Of course, politicians like Senator Ted Cruz and Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert had entirely different takeaways ... as they railed against the Grammy night act, calling it evil.
MTG and Boebert’s anti-Sam/Kim tweets referenced The Satanic Temple -- a different group from the Church of Satan -- but Harris is firing back on behalf of all Satanists, telling us ... “It’s sad when politicians on a national stage use someone’s religion as a punchline.”
Ironically, he says Cruz, MTG and Boebert are a bunch of “delicate snowflakes.”
Political bickering aside, the Church of Satan says Lil Nas X‘s music video for “Montero” was actually much more proactive than anything Sam or Kim did, at least in a satanic sense.
For the uninitiated ... Satanists don’t actually worship Satan, nor do they believe in God or the Devil. They’re opposed to anything supernatural and all spirituality, and with no belief in the afterlife, Satanists emphasize being your true self, personal achievement and living life to the fullest ... with one of the key tenants being individuals are their own Gods.
“[F]iring back on behalf of all Satanists,” the author writes, who apparently are also non-Satanic materialists opposed to spirituality in general. I don’t know if this claim paraphrases the interviewee or is the writer’s own invention, but either way you have to give it points for hubris.
This claim is wrong, obviously (or maybe just another whopper). Even the infamous schism of Harris’ own church cracked open along the fissure of spiritual belief, with the schismatics breaking in the direction of the Devil’s literal existence. More on that strange divorce later.
But even before church founder Anton LaVey was yucking with it up on the SoCal scene with his PSYOPS buddy Michael Aquino, there were a number of spiritual Satanists deeply embedded in the West’s clandestine power sectors. This cast of characters is much larger and stretches back much farther than I could possibly cover within one article.
In the next part, I’ll focus on three devil-worshippers in particular, who I think of as bridges between an older form of esoteric Satanism and its “new and improved” direction for the Information Age. As you’ll see, they share more in common than mere hatred for Christ or an addiction to hedonism. Their lives — and their deaths — conveyed yet another quality of their master, hidden from all but those initiated into his innermost circle. They’re also all incredibly lame, cringe, and retarded.
But from what I can tell, these since-departed church leaders were all true believers, neither fake nor gay. The gay frog was apparently still boiling, and the fake seasoning needed a bit more time to simmer.
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I did a deep dive into Revelation a few years ago (apocolypses being all the rage back then) and came away with the impression that it was one of the most insightful treatises about human nature I've ever read. Why does it always seem like the world is ending, and that Revelation is happening before our eyes? Beacuse humans are constantly creating the conditions that Revelation describes. I've generally thought that this was due to our fallen nature, and that we create end-of-the-world-worthy scenarios intrinsically and mostly unconsciously ("humans goona human"). I hadn't really considered that this pattern is being actively directed by supernatural forces. I don't know that active direction is necessary - I do think that humans would manage to create the patterns of Revelation again and again without nudging - but it's not as if the forces of Evil have no agency. As usual, you've given me a lot to ponder. Thanks for writing.
Re: how all this is organized, it makes me think again of flocking algorithms. Individual sheep, or birds, or fish, don't need to know where the group is going. No flight plans, no territorial maps, no timekeeping or GPS or anything we'd use to get from A to B. They just need to follow a handful of simple rules to sustain a meta- or super-intelligence that navigates them successfully as a group without the individual participants being aware of anything but their nearby peers. I'm sure you know how this works.
So, if you want to navigate a civilization over a cliff, what you do is get some critical number of people to follow a few simple rules, none of which contain anything like "work toward the destruction of your civilization." They can be simple things like, "prioritize financial over family planning" or "center your own personal needs" or "avoid pain, pursue pleasure."
The trouble is how to get a bunch of people to follow rules like that. Used to be you had to start a cult and initiate people into its mysteries, so that you could break down the traditions, conventions and safeguards a functioning society set up to prevent this from happening.
Now there's public education and mass media.