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Navy approves first ever Satanist

The British Armed Forces has officially recognised its first registered Satanist, a newspaper reports.

Naval technician Chris Cranmer, 24, has been allowed to register by the captain of HMS Cumberland, based at Devonport Naval Base in Plymouth.

The move will mean that he will now be allowed to perform Satanic rituals on board the vessel.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Cranmer realised he was a Satanist nine years ago.

Religious values

Mr Cranmer said that was when he stumbled across a copy of the Satanic Bible, written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey.

He said: "I then read more and more and came to realise I'd always been a Satanist, just simply never knew."

Mr Cranmer, who is from Edinburgh, is now lobbying the Ministry of Defence to make Satanism a registered religion in the armed forces.

Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe said she was "utterly shocked" by the Royal Navy's decision.

"Satanism is wrong. Obviously the private beliefs of individuals anywhere, including the armed forces, are their own affair but I hope it doesn't spread."

She added: "The Navy should not permit Satanist practices on board its ships.

"God himself gives free will, but I would like to think that if somebody applied to the Navy and said they were a Satanist today it would raise its eyebrows somewhat."

A spokesman for the Royal Navy said: "We are an equal opportunities employer and we don't stop anybody from having their own religious values."

The path to Satan

The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco in 1966.

Mr LaVey was its high priest until his death in 1997.

Followers live by the Nine Satanic Statements, which include "Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence", "Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek" and "Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification".

Doug Harris, director of the Reachout Trust, an evangelical Christian ministry that "builds a bridge of reason" to those involved in cults and the occult, says the statements are "selfish".

"Following such tenets and working them out practically in your life seems to produce a selfish person not a member of a team," he said.

I did a research project on Anton LaVey and Satanism, and I found out that the religion at its roots is basically devoting yourself to being a selfish asshole. Nice job, Anton.

That and it's not a real religion.

I'd just like to point out that the Satanic star-symbol is an inverted pagan pentacle.

The pagan pentacle symbolizes the four physical elementals and the fifth elemental is the spirit, which is the most important and therefore placed at the top.

EARTH: (lower left hand corner) represents stability and physical endurance.
FIRE: (lower right hand corner) represents courage and daring.
WATER: (upper right hand corner) represents emotions and intuition.
AIR: (upper left hand corner) represents intelligence and the arts.
SPIRIT: (at the topmost point) represents the All and the Divine.

The Satanic pentagram places the part of the star that represents spirituality at the bottom and the parts that represent fire and earth at the top.

So yeah, Satanism is the religion of being an asshole.




Ever notice the Pentagon remembles a Satanic pentagram? It points south, after all...

More significantly, the streets of Washington contain several Masonic/Occult symbols.



The White House lies at the base of a pentagram.

there is a film... i think it's entitled Millenium 2000 and it points out a bunch of connections between the U.S. and satan... kinda crazy, kinda goofy... anyway... if you want to see about a hundred more connections between this country and ole lucifer, then check it out... it wouldve been a better film if it didnt look like it was being shot in some guy's basement