Satanic Horror: The Sun News paper gets confused!

Hivemind187

This appears on the front of todays Sun.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1692637.ece

Horrified cops found body parts dumped in a pit beside an upside-down cross, a symbol used in Satanic worship.

The victims all suffered 666 knife wounds — the number associated with the Beast, or Antichrist, and featured in horror films such as The Omen.

The pals, three girls and a boy aged 16 or 17, were all Goths.

They were lured one by one to a cottage and forced to get drunk before being butchered.

Hair from them was found in the embers of a fire the gang lit under a tree.

Police believe the teenagers were cooked in the flames before their flesh was devoured.

Their private parts had also been cut off in the sickening ritual in a rural area of Russia.

After police arrested eight suspected members of the ring, one boasted how they had previously dug up the grave of a newly-dead girl and eaten her heart.

Another said he did not expect to be punished, saying: “Satan will help me to avoid responsibility. I made lots of sacrifices to him.”

And a third said he had got fed up with God for not making him rich and that “things improved” after he started praying to the Devil.

The discovery in Yaroslavl, 300 miles from Moscow, sent a shudder across Russia — where Satanists are feared to have committed a string of mutilations and killings.

The victims, who all disappeared in June, were named as Anya Gorokhova, Olga Pukhova, Varya Kuzmina and Andrei Sorokin.

The upside-down cross marking what was left of their bones and scalps had a small animal nailed to it.

Police began tracing the gang after finding out that all the victims had made phone calls to alleged leader Nikolai Ogolobyak.

Locals said they all knew Ogolobyak, whose grandmother revealed he had sung in the local church choir as a boy.

The rest of the cult were described by ex-teachers as having been of low intelligence and moody at school.

Three were named by police as Ksenia Kuznetsova, Alexander Voronov and Anton Makovkin.

The dad of victim Andrei said: “My son said he had Goths and Satanists among his friends.

“I wasn’t scared. I thought, ‘Well, let him spend his time sitting around a cemetery — there’s not much harm in that, is there?’"

Russia has seen a series of gruesome murders, rapes and desecrations linked to Satanic cults.

Moscow alone has 15 whose worship is thought to revolve around symbols such as 666, an upturned five-pointed star within a circle and the swastika.

Devil worshippers believe in putting themselves first and their core values include pride, indulgence, ambition and meeting sexual desires.

In Britain, about 400 people list their religion as Satanism. Followers meet at a “Grotto” for rituals with candles and swords run by witches and warlocks.

It amazes me how people are permitted to ascribe these kinds of thing to LaVey Satanism and get away with it - if it were Christians, Herbews, Muslims or the Pagan community their would be so many people offended on there behalf - yet no one seems to be offended on the Satanists behalf (admitedly including most Satanists).

For those who dont know;

Church of Satan = Recognised religion started in the 1960's celebrating the individual as the highest power. Atheism with a bit of dogma really.

Devil Worship = A bunch of sick kids and sociopaths who believe gibberish and want to indulge in the most putrid acts because it makes every other sick kid and sociopath think they are really cool.

Dave!

Hivemind187 wrote: »

Devil Worship = A bunch of sick kids and sociopaths who believe gibberish and want to indulge in the most putrid acts because it makes every other sick kid and sociopath think they are really cool.

That's a caricature that may be offensive to real devil worshippers...

Hivemind187

Dave! wrote: »

That's a caricature that may be offensive to real devil worshippers...

Welll ... paint me prejudiced then

Splendour

One of these guys said 'Satan will help me avoid responsibility...' so naturally people assume it's Satanic-what else are they to believe?

Anyhow, Satan and the Devil are one in the same.

Hivemind187

Splendour wrote: »

One of these guys said 'Satan will help me avoid responsibility...' so naturally people assume it's Satanic-what else are they to believe?

Anyhow, Satan and the Devil are one in the same.

Thats not the point.

Satanism is an entirely different thing to "Devil worship".

So called "devil worship" revolves around disgusting rituals, murder, cannibalism and other carry on. In most cases, it's really just a justification for certain individuals violent compulsions.

Satanism, as a philosophy and "religion" (though the term is perhaps not exactly applied correctly to the practice) is one of conscious induglence in the basic human drives mixed with a slightly ironic practice of "ritual magic" (in the full knowledge that it essentially doesnt work) and an atheistic approach to the issue of whether their is a god (essentially Satanists beilieve that their no higher power than the individual).

Satanists have, in a sense brought much of this upon themselves by their choice of title and the trappings of their belief system however it was a deliberate choice, in part, to annoy the other major religions at the time. This isnt the only reason but the others are a little more complicated.

Also "Satan" and "the Devil" are not quite the same thing. "Satan" is a corruption of the Hebrew "Shaitan" or "accuser" which predates the christian mythology of a "Devil" by several millenia.

Nevyn

LeVey Satanism is very different to devil worship, unless you are the type of christain who things that if you are not worshiping the one true christain gods you are being tricked by satan/the devil and is dressing up kit.

Satan/Lucifer/The Devil are all different with differnt myths, meaning and origins it's just they do get lumped together
by Christian mythos.