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May 3, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Beelzebub Has a Devil Put Aside for Me: After School Satan Clubs and the First Amendment
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Dear friend, I'm going to tell you about the fascination I've always had with the devil.
The prince of darkness, Lucifer, Satan.
But not the way you think it is.
Not the way you might think.
I'm not a Satanist by any stretch of the imagination.
And no, I do not believe that evil is somehow contained within the personification of evil, namely the devil.
Or Lucifer or whatever.
No, I'm going to talk to you about my fascination with the subject and how I think the devil gets a bad shake, so to speak.
I will explain what that means very, very carefully.
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The topic of tonight is Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me.
And this is a story involving a case which is fascinating.
A federal judge allows a Pennsylvania school district and orders them to allow an after-school Satan Club.
And I find absolutely nothing wrong with it.
I know why.
Because of this thing called the Constitution.
A Constitution.
The federal judge in this particular case said, I think it was fantastic, said that...
The Satanic Temple or members of the Temple objectors may challenge the sanctity of this controversial named organization, but the sanctity of the First Amendment's protection must prevail.
And they're absolutely correct!
Listen to this.
Judge John M. Gallagher wrote, When confronted with a challenge to free speech, the government's first instinct must be to forward expression rather than quash it.
Particularly when the content is controversial or inconvenient.
Nothing less is consistent with the express purpose of American government to secure the core innate rights of its people.
And it's correct!
And I know this is absolutely bothersome to most people because they always use the term satanic.
Everything's satanic.
Let me get some light here.
Everything's satanic.
Satanic is this and the devil is this and demonic is this and this is Satan.
Just like the word communism.
Communism.
Communism.
It's a socialist.
It's a communist.
It's the Marxist and the communist.
Oh, for the love of God.
Interesting pun.
I've always been fascinated by the devil, aside from that.
Every year when we had Halloween, every year, every year, I was the devil.
Every year!
Remember those boxes?
Those of you who don't remember from the 60s, it was a cardboard box.
And you opened it up, you had a mask.
This mask where the holes were not positioned for a child so that you would put it on and you really couldn't see.
Then you put on this cape.
This cape that was coated in some type of flammable chemical solvent.
You would basically, I mean, risk going up like a torch.
And you went out into the night wearing a mask where you couldn't see, covered in, not even a reflective cape, but one of these things you tie in the back that smelled of this chemical solvent, Agent Orange, Chernobyl juice or whatever it was.
And you would go to strangers' houses and they would give you candy.
But I don't want to get into a theory, a thesis on Halloween, which was...
I still think it was great.
But the idea of the devil.
I always thought the devil.
The devil.
What does the devil want to do?
He wants to tempt you.
One time when I was a kid, this is true, kindergarten, sister, I don't know what her name was, but this old principal, she played the piano like this beer hall.
And she said, children, The devil will be at the carnival.
Because the devil...
I took her for her word.
At her word.
The devil's going to be at the carnival.
Why?
What does the devil have to do with us?
What does the devil possibly have to do with us?
What is this?
Who is this devil?
He possesses you.
Why?
Because he just does.
And in all the movies, it's always some poor kid.
Remember The Exorcist?
So scary.
I thought that was the most ridiculous story in the world.
Why are you going after this kid?
Now, why does the devil always, you know, your mother darns socks in hell and all these terrible things, spewing things and written up and down and, you know, why?
Why doesn't the devil just come in, possess somebody and you say, hey, are you possessed?
What do you mean?
Well, you're smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis.
So what?
You're eight years old.
That's a tip-off.
Remember the horns?
The history of the devil and Satan is Baphomet and all this stuff.
This is fairly new.
It was a post, kind of a pagan construct.
Read your history.
The notion of a pan, you know, with a hoof, these hyper-mensulate, hyper-active, you know, these ghoulish, whatever.
But, Either way, you cannot say yours is a religion and yours is not a religion.
And this is permitted, but this isn't.
If the Satanists can't meet, nobody meets.
That's simple.
I think it would be better probably not to in any way intersperse religion, but then again...
I'm sorry, I think we have an allergy to religion.
I think people should be able to meet and to join up, if you will, to enjoy each other's company regarding the subject matter of religion without necessarily the state endorsing it or whatever.
I think we have this ridiculous intolerance for anything that is religious.
I think that's ridiculous.
But more importantly, What I think we have to understand is very simply this.
We cannot sit and say this is valid, this isn't.
Take the Scientologists.
Why are they not a religion?
Wow, that's crazy.
Do you want to go into what's crazy?
Do you really want me to start talking about who's crazy and who's not crazy or who appears to be?
What is crazy?
What is far-fetched in the world of religion?
To anybody who was not a practitioner of that particular faith, of that persuasion, it may seem a bit daft, a bit odd, a bit mythical, a bit strange, but that's the beauty of religions.
No, no, no.
This judge is absolutely correct.
Absolutely correct.
And yet, the subject matter I have, in my years of talk radio, I've talked to Wiccans and Pagans and everybody.
What is it that you do?
What do you do?
I've talked to Satanists and Luciferians.
What is it?
We, you know, and I'm not the best explainer of this, we pay homage to Satan.
How?
What do you do?
What does Satan do for you?
What does Satan do?
How does this work?
I don't understand this.
Explain this Satan thing to me.
What does Satan do?
How does this work?
I one time went to a meeting.
In fact, there was a little meeting in the neighborhood I was in.
There was these atheists with me.
And I would go in sometimes.
It was at a bar.
It was an Irish bar.
And in the back, the atheists met.
And I said, what do you do?
Well, we just talked.
Do you talk about the improper inclusion or violations of the...
Free exercise clause or the establishment clause.
What do you do?
I don't know.
What do you do?
Sit around and say, we don't believe, right?
Same as last week.
Everybody still not believe?
Okay, good.
Now let's drink.
Listen, I've always been at peace.
I am personally irreligious.
I'm not an atheist.
I pass no judgment on whether something exists or not exists.
I don't speak French.
I don't speak French.
That is not a statement as to the legitimacy of the French language, whether French exists, whether people who are speaking to each other in French are actually speaking a language.
I make no subject, no statement, no statement of validity as to the existence of something merely because I don't participate in it.
Does that make any sense?
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