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Satanist gives opening prayer to Nevada's Washoe County Commissioner Clara Andriola, eliciting shock and outrage. Hail Satan!

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's the prayer for people who don't read the article:

In the name of the eternal rebel against tyrannical authority, in the spirit of your nature of the natural world, the freedoms of thought and expression, unprejudiced intellectual inquiry, economics and social progress to bring influence and guiding actions of nobility and justice to the decisions made in this chamber today, to act with might and the undertaking of responsibility that may lay ahead of this body before us today.
The New Age is dawning that these decisions will play a role in. For our liberation, for here and now is our day of joy, here and now is our opportunity.
May we seize this glorious day and its enchanting night to celebrate the wonders of the natural world, as we are all part of its boundless mysteries.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see how that can be a shock.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if you think rebellion against authority is a bad thing. But I thought this was America. Rebelling against tyrannical authority is our nation's origin story.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was a while ago though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and people who are the authority are suspiciously opposed to rebellion against them.

[–] elbarto777 1 points 1 year ago

A while ago. Heh.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the article:
She then asked the county's legal counsel – Nate Edwards of the district attorney's office – to clarify the county's requirements when honoring requests from groups wishing to deliver the invocation.

Edwards said that satanic invocations are part of a trend.

"The federal law is that you don't have to open your floor for invocations," he said. "If you do open your floor for invocations, then federal law is that you have to let everybody have a turn signing up. So I guess you take the good with the bad."

I'm glad that Nate Edwards left open the definition of "good" and "bad".

[–] ChicoSuave 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's seems to know how to do his job. Good lawyer?

[–] homesweethomeMrL 9 points 1 year ago

We’ll take competent.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Well if it isn't the consequences of your own actions.

[–] littlebluespark 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hail Satan! ❤️‍🔥🥰🤘🏼

[–] elbarto777 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regardless of that first emoji, I will never stop seeing it as the heart giving the smilie a blowjob.

[–] littlebluespark 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're rooting for you to continue to grow and progress past your old self, citizen. 🤗

[–] elbarto777 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you, fellow citizen!

[–] Crackhappy 9 points 1 year ago

This is delicious.

[–] SkabySkalywag 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damnit, I might trade in Pastafarianism for Satanism, those hell cock suckers seem so much cooler....

[–] elbarto777 10 points 1 year ago

Why don't you just follow both? It's those old religions that tell you that you can only be with them and no one else.

[–] iggy 4 points 1 year ago

Look at the faces in the crowd... The lady is like "how can this be happening?!?!" And the guy with the glasses is just like "I told you this would happen"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm Unitarian. My pastor gave a speech to new members that there's "freedom of the pulpit, and freedom of the pew." Meaning you can disagree with the speaker or whatever they're saying.

Maybe this experience will teach him that he doesn't have to bend to authority without question. Probably not, but maybe.