Today in the U.S. many will celebrate the secular holiday called “Thanksgiving.” Due to the currently surging pandemic, some traditions must be curtailed. It originated as a harvest festival and the ubiquitous imagery has been inspired by legends about Calvinist separatist Pilgrims who emigrated in 1620 from The Netherlands to the “New World.” These staunchly Christian folks supposedly included, now and again, select nearby indigenous pagans in their festivities. However, the interactions between the European immigrants and the Native Americans were often quite negative. Various virulent pathogens were unknowingly brought to North America which, in many situations, devastated the local […]
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Here is the second installment of “Mortification-Like Sentiments: The COVID19 Writings” titled: Isolation Chamber. An anthropomorphic representation of the virus: Pandema (Latin for “pandemic”) learns that no wholesale-slaughter is complete without the death of the death dealer. Share and hashtag it! #isolationchamber #mortificationlikesentiments #mlsthecovid19writings Watch the first video of the series “Casualties Before Coffee” HERE. More to come. Stay tuned, tune in others and SUBSCRIBE! —Comte MoriVond
Today is the 90th birth anniversary of our founder, Magus Anton Szandor LaVey. He left us with a rich legacy of his writings, his audio and video interviews, his art and music, and a thriving organization dedicated to preserving that legacy—bringing it to new generations, hungry for his philosophy of radical individualism named Satanism. For those who have grasped his perspectives, that he was always ahead of the curve comes as no surprise. Here, in what will eventually be seen in retrospect as a “plague year,” the essential non-congregational nature of Satanism has proven to be both prescient and timely. […]
TRISKAIDEKAPHILIACS REJOICE! Today is the first “Friday the 13th” of 2020. There will be only one more this year. As keen observers of those around us, we Satanists have long enjoyed the consternation this number conjures amongst the superstitious. On the occasion of this “dreaded day” we bring to mind that Satanism advocates rational approaches towards how we interact with the world in which we live, and that our philosophy supports science over faith towards guiding our decisions and actions. In this time of global fear, panic, and irrational behavior regarding the pandemic caused by the spread of the COVID-19 […]