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.
As long as you say it tongue in cheek. At least as far as I was taught lore (and that could be completely wrong to history because religion), Satan was the one with the bad plan: to make everyone be good; remove choice from the equation.
The great irony (and hypocrisy) of Christianity at least is, it teaches that God is all wise in part because he was willing to give us free will. The ENTIRE POINT is he will not force us to be good, but that's exactly what the Christofascists who freak out over other religions want: to remove choice.
Modern Christianity is literally its own antichrist. Hailing Satan isn't the answer, but being privy to why he was supposedly bad, is.
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.
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".
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"
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.