Satanism

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SATANISM
Background Information about Satan
      A. Names
                1. Devil - "He goat" Rev. 12:9
                2. Serpent - Rev. 12:9
                3. Satan - "destroyer" Rev. 9:11
                4. Dragon - Rev. 12:3
                5. Beelzebub - "Lord of the Flies
                         Matt. 12:22-37
                6. Belial - "Worthless" II Cor. 6:15

        B. Reality
                1. Logically - Without a real devil, how can you account for evil in the world? Does evil exist? Is evil just the absence of good?
                2. Instinctively - God and Satan stand or fall together. Can't have heaven without hell.
                3. Biblically - Called a person. Personal pronouns used.

        C. Origin
                Caution: Do not make God the source of evil.
                1. Rabbis - God created Satan on the 6th day.
                2. Early church - Fallen angels were fascinated with women and bore children by them.
                3. Devil a Fallen Angel - II Pet. 2:4 and Jude 6 teach that fallen angels are chained. Is there more than one devil?
                4. God created Devil to do evil He cannot - God is pure. He cannot do evil, but He wants to. Did God make him evil? Did he become evil?
                5. Isaiah 14:12-20 - a] Lucifer=Day Star, brightest star. b] Who tempted Lucifer? c] This passage is not a history of the Devil. It is a prophecy about the fall of Babylon.
                6. Exekiel 28:11-26 - This passage deals with the fall of Tyre.

                7. Eternal Dualism - God and Satan have both always existed. (John 8:44)
                a] This does not make God the origin of evil.
                b] God's goodness leads to sacrifice. Satans's evil prompts fanaticism.
                c] Demons, evil spirits, angels of Satan were made by Satan, not God.
                d] Makes Satan an evil person not just an abstraction.

Satanism (the religion)

        A. Anton LaVey - 1966 - pastor of the First Satanic Church in San Fransisco. Now claims over 3 million dues paying members. He said, "The Satanic Age started in 1966. That's when God was declared dead, the Sexual Freedom League came into prominence and the hippies developed as a free sex culture." La Vey wrote "The Satanic Bible". It is an exact opposite of the Holy Bible.

        B. Man is a Paradox - Too smart to be religious. Not smart enough to reject superstition. Bantam Books says its highest sales of astrology books are in the South.

        C. "Man makes one of two mistakes with Satan; he either denies his existence or has an inordinate interest in him." C. S. Lewis

        D. "Church of Seth" New Age face on satanism and rituals
                1. Centuar Books in Tullahoma

        E. "Church of the Final Judgment" - Charles Manson was a member of this group.

The Problem

        A. In this area - (near Tullahoma)
                1. Local school problems
                2. Crime
                        a] animal mutilations (Normandy Lake)
                        b] Satanic church group in Murfreesboro
                        c] teen murdered father in Estell Springs
                        d] grave robbings

        B. Middle Tennessee
                1. Church vandalism - Black Mass in a church
                2. Baby sacrificed by mother and boyfriend. He wrote songs about killing and sacrificing babies.
                3. Grave robbing - skulls, bones, deface markers
                4. Young man killed grandmother - D&D, Said, "I am sending you to Satan."
                5. At lest a small satanic group is every high school in Metro Schools
                6. Small private cemetery near Metro airport, emptied of all eight graves.
                7. Memphis - SWAT team rescued a policeman about to be killed. They were chanting, "Anti-christ, agent of the devil."
                8. 2nd grader - suicide - Room filled with Satanic books and literature. 8 Vol. set on "How to Kill" Graphic pictures of how to kill animals, babies, adults by every means you can think of. Room filled with Satanic symbols and things needed for rituals.

        C. Nation-wide
                1. 1.5 million blood sacrifices in U. S. per year
                2. Animal mutilation
                3. Human sacrifice
                4. Blood drinking, self-inflicted pain
                5. Sexual orgies
                6. New Age Movement - Shirley McClain
                        a] reincarnation
                        b] out of body experiences
                        c] humanistic philosophy
                7. Nursing home, day care centers - sexual abuse

Is Satanism just another weird religion?

        A. Most pagan religions have eliminated blood from their worship and ceremonies

        B. Satanism thrives on blood, death, pain, and mutilation

        C. Satanic groups fit into four types:
                a] Self-styled Satanists - young, rebellious, defiant, drugs, sex, alcohol, pornography, heavy metal music, etc.
                b] Parents who allow children - satisfy their curiosity - read books magazines, comics, video tapes, form gangs, Dung. and Drag.
                c] Inter-generational - parents and grandparents who bring in small children for sexual abuse, to steal, kill, etc.
                d] Ritualistic abuse of children - Day care centers, Boy scout leaders, child pornographers, homosexuals, child prostitution

Causes and Sources of the Problem

        A. Heavy Metal music
                1. Group names
                        a] KISS = Knights In Satan's Service
                        b] AC/DC = Anti-Christ/Devil's Children
                2. Song lyrics
                        a] suicide, killing parents, killing babies, sex with animals, death, drinking blood, orgies
                        b] sub-liminal - message is under the music
                3. Stage behavior -
                        a] knives, razor blades, chains, whips
                        b] killing animals, bit off rat heads, kill chickens, bats, other animals
                        c] slam-dancing - (ask any teenager)
                        d] oral sex, fondle themselves and some from audience
                4. Buy a Heavy Metal magazine, look at the pictures, read the text, read the lyrics of songs

        B. Drugs
                1. All drugs - alcohol, pot, crack, cocaine
                2. Use as a "lure" to recruit
                3. Use "Satanism" as excuse for crimes to support their drug habit

        C. Family Unit Breakdown
                1. Almost all are from broken homes
                2. Step-parent abuse is growing
                3. Lack of authority, control, "latch-key kids"

        D. Video tapes
                1. Horror films - teens in woods, getting killed by creative means "Friday 13th" "Halloween" Freddie Kruger
                2. Satanic movies - Omen, Damion, Rosemary's Baby, House, Polergiest, Carrie, The Exorcist
                3. "Faces of Death" - actual film of every way that a man can be killed, shot, stabbed, hung, suffocate, throat cut, etc.

        E. Books, magazines, comics, paraphinela
                1. Books - cheap, paperback, many stores
                        Mall bookstore - whole section New Age
                                another section - D. & D.
                2. Drug stores, import stores, in malls - sell rings, candles, amulets, jewelry
                3. Comics - Not Donald Duck any more - Witchcraft, spells, charms, chants, special powers

Other sources of Information

        A. Demons In the World Today, Merrill Unger
        B. Invasion of Demons, John C. Hagee
        C. The Devil is Alive and Well and Living in America Today, Jason Michaels
        D. A Biblical Study of Satan, Charles Hodge
        E. Those Curious New Cults, William J. Petersen
        F. Out On A Broken Limb, F. LaGard Smith