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Review of Forbidden History S03E05 “Inside the Cult of Satan”

4/4/2016

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In the penultimate episode of the third season of Forbidden History, host Jamie Theakston went in search of Satan, in an episode that never quite rises to the level of the infamous Ancient Aliens episode that asked viewers to worship Lucifer as the embodiment of cosmic good. “Inside the Cult of Satan” (S03E05) instead is overly concerned with whether people enjoy sex too much, and if this might threaten Christian morality. To make that case, it tells us that there are more than 100,000 Satanists in the world, a number that is growing according to ghost hunter Richard Felix because of a rejection of puritanical Christianity in search of hedonism. “Hallelujah! Praise the new Lord,” Felix proclaims sarcastically. Heather Osborn, a fringe radio host, engages in moral panic by proclaiming that “dark” television programs are leading teenagers to embrace Satan, with the implication that this is why they are sexually active.
Granted, 100,000 Satanists would be roughly double the reported number of Scientologists, but it’s fewer than just the number of American Quakers, which stands at more than 350,000. And nobody talks about panic over global Quaker takeovers. Felix, though, alleges that thanks to the Church of Satan, Satanism is huge in America because Americans love “cults.” Only in an offhand way does the show concede that the Church of Satan isn’t actually a Satan-worshiping cult but more of an anti-Christian protest movement.
 
Theakston, though, will have none of it and instead alleges that the worship of Satan is “as old as our civilization” but kept “underground” due to Christian oppression. This is undoubtedly untrue since Satan as a figure only develops around the time of Christ, and didn’t really take off until Christianity was established. Similarly, the eighteenth century “Hellfire Club” Theakston next explores isn’t a Satanic cult but rather the Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe, a hedonistic club where, along with others that imitated it, rich people would gather to have orgies and make fun of religion. Even Felix manages to correctly identify that this club had nothing to do with Satan, but Heretic Magazine’s resident imbecile Andrew Gough lustfully declares the club “the real Fifty Shades of Grey,” apparently without recognizing that Satanism and BDSM are not synonymous or interchangeable. The show gives an enormous amount of time to a libertine club that wasn’t really Satanist, but the youthful guide to the club’s underground meetinghouse suggests that the club “indoctrinated” lords and ladies into pagan rites, which again are not the same as Satanic rites. “It was more of a pagan sex club than it was anything else,” Gough concedes, and the producers of the show seem unable to distinguish between paganism and Satanism. This is hardly different from the Romantic spirit that animated Gothic fiction, which drew on the same mix of the occult and the medieval in search of an antidote to Enlightenment.
 
Just before the halfway point, we finally change topic and move on to exorcism, and the show films a “recreation of a typical exorcism” conducted by an exorcist, Chris Thompson, who says that business is booming. This is nothing new; 15 years ago Michael W. Cuneo documented the rise in exorcisms and attributed them to a number of causes: first to the movie The Exorcist in the 1970s, and later, in the 1990s, to the explosion in biblical fundamentalism as an extremist counterpoint to perceived secular materialism. The decline in mainstream religion, therefore, Cuneo said, led to more extreme religious belief among a smaller number of people and demonic possession became a sort of proof of faith. Thompson doesn’t know if demons are real, but he exorcizes them anyway.
 
Gough believes that exorcisms are simply a show in which the exorcist and the possessed participate in a theatrical folie à deux, or even a fraud, and here he is supported by Cuneo’s research. Stopped clocks are right twice a day! Felix alleges that demonic possession is Christian in origin, though this is also untrue. I have a book on my shelf called Possession: Demoniacal and Other by T. K. Oestererreich that, for all its faults, documents that what we call demonic possession—and therefore exorcism—is found everywhere on earth and all times, not just among Christians. The show’s producers are either intentionally catering to Christian chauvinism or are genuinely ignorant of the world beyond the Bible.
 
Next Theakston discusses the life and times of Aleister Crowley, whom Felix takes pains to tell us “was not a Satanist” but rather a sex-obsessed occultist. The show keeps emphasizing Crowley’s sex life and his cult’s Sicilian orgies, and there’s more than a hint of puritanical titillation behind the producers’ choices. Gough agrees that Crowley was an occultist and a practitioner of ritual magic, which again forces us to ask whether a show ostensibly about Satan has any actual Satanism in it. Crowley, Felix says, was probably “a dirty old perv,” though no one, he says, knows for sure whether he was really in contact with spirts or aliens. Again, though, despite the gleeful descriptions of bisexual orgies and Gough’s speculation that Crowley engaged in human sacrifice, there’s not a hint of Satan.
 
However, the program then discusses the Order of the Nine Angles, a 1980s Satanic group that combined ritual magic, Aryan supremacy, and space colonization, though with no further discussion. One talking head, Aron Paramor—identified as an “occult historian” but better known as an actor (he has never published any occult history so far as I can find)—describes the various types of Satanism, including the Temple of Set and the Order of the Trapezoid, which he says has “an H. P. Lovecraftian feeling.” Here we’re getting into Lovecraftian ceremonial magic, with its intentional claim that Lovecraft had a real connection to the Old Ones, who are not Satanic. This type of Satanism, as the show notes, is Satanism in name only rather than a genuine veneration of Lucifer.
 
Next up we discuss the Black Mass, the ritual inversion of the Catholic mass, though even Heather Osborn, no deep thinker, doubts the polemical descriptions of the Black Mass. Paramor thinks that our society is becoming more Satanic, and Gough believes that Satanism is a better fit for our times because, again, of Fifty Shades of Grey, which he feels symbolizes the libertinism that opposes traditional morality. Theakston concludes that Satanism is a “protest vote against the Church,” which is weird on two counts, first because in England (especially compared to America) religious belief is markedly low, and second because the 100,000 alleged Satanists identified at the start of the hour represent a vanishingly small percentage of the world’s 7.1 billion people. The show and its talking heads didn’t actually go in search of the cult of Satan; instead, they delivered an hour-long polemic in favor of Victorian social mores by doing what the Church once did: declaring the enjoyment of sex to be representative of communion with demons.
54 Comments
Time Machine
4/4/2016 11:46:20 am

> Christian morality

Original Sin and all that - Judaism had a different take on the Adam and Eve story and about celibacy - but it was the central aspect of Christianity because of the doctrine of the atonement and the coming Apocalypse where sex was not required anymore.

Hence the Devil became associated with the physical attributes of Pan and anything to do with sex that did not involve reproduction became "immoral". Hence people who published birth control manuals were given prison sentences even in Protestant countries because the "immorality factor" carried over to different Christian movements.

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Time Machine
4/4/2016 11:54:36 am

> in England (especially compared to America) religious belief is markedly low

Yeah, but when Henry VIII broke away from Roman Catholicism he did not abandon its religious and moral values and the UK is still full of prudish crap. Since British society became mostly secular the moral values still exist without the link to religion attached, although that was where those "values" originated.

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DaveR
4/4/2016 11:47:10 am

Let's see, go to church every Sunday and listen to how I'm a bad person and I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity, then they demand my money, or go to a pagan sex orgy? Hmmmmm...this is tough choice.

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Shane Sullivan
4/5/2016 01:43:05 pm

Watch your step around those pagan divinities, though. If I learned one thing the Pirates of Caribbean film franchise, it's that Calypso has crabs.

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Clete
4/4/2016 11:55:39 am

This being an election year, it is hard not to believe in demonic possession. All one needs to do is attend a Donald Trump rally.

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Time Machine
4/4/2016 12:03:06 pm

President Donald Trump.

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DaveR
4/4/2016 12:29:21 pm

Since you appear to have amazing powers of precognition, would be every so kind as to provide me with next week's winning Power Ball numbers? Thanks.

Time Machine
4/4/2016 12:33:48 pm

It's Obama who made Trump the next President.

Obama was the most ineffectual President of modern times - a distinction previously held by Jimmy Carter.

DaveR
4/4/2016 01:04:40 pm

That's not answering my question.

Birds of a Feather
4/4/2016 05:54:48 pm

Time Machine has exhibited wishful thinking many times before. SSDD.

Time Machine
4/4/2016 07:14:06 pm

Correction: It is not "wishful thinking".

And I put it to you that President Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a bigger jackass than Donald Trump.

Birds of a Feather
4/5/2016 04:54:18 pm

Put it however you want. I have no love for Hilary either but I'd love to hear your reasoning behind how you think Trump would be any better.

Time Machine
4/6/2016 01:19:32 am

The candidates for the next Presidency are ALL a bunch of jerks.

And Obama was another worthless jerk.

Birds of a Feather
4/6/2016 11:26:43 am

You dodge the question. So what makes your precious Trump any less of a "jerk"?

Kathleen
4/4/2016 12:46:46 pm

If Richard Felix believes that demonic possession is Christian in origin, then I think that the Bible disproves his assertion. In the New Testament, Jesus casts out demons from folk who were certainly pre-Christian Jews. And that brings me to my question. Did the Jews have a ritual to remove demons from their people? I am no longer familiar with the Old Testament.

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Time Machine
4/4/2016 12:53:10 pm

Pre-Christian Jews did not believe in the Devil.
There is no devil in the Old Testament.
The concept of the Devil within Christianity originated in the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden.
Going back to Christianity and Judaism having different takes on the story of Garden of Eden and differing perspectives on celibacy.


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Kathleen
4/4/2016 01:06:36 pm

I think that the Satan and demons were separate entities. I could be wrong, that's why I asked.

Kathleen
4/4/2016 01:11:59 pm

Oh, and Satan was a key figure in the Book of Job

Time Machine
4/4/2016 01:25:09 pm

The character in the Book of Job is different to the Christian devil.

Kelley Price
10/8/2016 06:07:24 pm

Genesis is the first book of the OT (the Pentateuch), the holy text of the Jews, how is it that, "The concept of the Devil within Christianity originated in the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden," and, "There is no devil in the Old Testament." are both true?

David Bradbury
4/4/2016 03:05:39 pm

I'd never consciously heard of Aron Paramor in any context, so imagine my surprise on finding him in this article from 2002:
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/23rd-february-2002/56/possessed-by-demons

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David Bradbury
4/4/2016 03:09:38 pm

Oh wow! The following year he appeared in an episode of The Basil Brush Show!

How cool is that !!?

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Kal
4/4/2016 03:16:49 pm

Satan was present in the old testament as well as the new, under various names, not just in the time of Christ when they gave him that name.

King Henry blamed his concubines for bringing him girl heirs when actually genetically he was incapable of producing boy babies. It was actually his fault, but they did not know this at the time. One of his offspring, a girl named Elizabeth I, would be the Queen. He was kind of nuts though.

The Garden of Eden story is not about sex specifically. It was about the fall from God for disobeying him and eating the fruit. Their nakedness is mentioned, but sex itself was not bad.

It seems in the old testament adultery though, unmarried sex with married persons, was bad.

In the time of Christ, Jesus never once mentioned deviant sex, (orgies?), at all or homosexuality, at all.

Later letters of the NT did mention such things but were added during the time of Luther.

Satan did appear with God in Job, an old testament story. I suspect though most of you will comment otherwise.

Satan appeared as the serpent in the Garden in Genesis. Technically it was Eve's fault for listening to a snake. It was Adam's fault for listening to both. But if God is all knowing, he knew they were going to 'sin', so is it a punishment?

The Hellfire Club? Hah ha. Rich fat cats having sex parties is hardly profane, but merely sad. Let them engage in rituals.

The irony of 50 Shades of Gray is that the best selling book series is put poorly written pornography, of which better stuff can be found on the internet for free. The movie was laughable. More than half of the attendees of the movie...Christian middle aged women. It's not like they hid this either.

Ironically the BDSM people hate the book because the message at the end is not what they are about, as they do that stuff for a fetish and it's not abuse, but a kink. Gray is abused at some point in the story, leading to his being into that. It is not the case for those who do that.

They could do a whole episode of one of these shows based on how alleged alien Illuminati encourage sex shows and pornography.

It really doesn't matter when the name Satan came to be, because those who think he's real also made a means to stop him through prayer to God. If some of you all want to believe he is real, you likely believe the Christ is real too.

Politics have always been hairy and mean spirited. Trump is just a clown who is making everyone look bad. Cruz and Clinton are shifty. Eh. Well they're all rich.





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Weatherwax
4/4/2016 04:13:53 pm

King Henry VIII was not genetically unable to have sons. He actually had one son, who died young. That the rest were daughters was just chance.

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V
4/4/2016 06:04:29 pm

1. Henry VIII sired THREE monarchs, not one--beginning with his SON, Edward VI, who was sired on his third wife, Jane Seymour, was crowned at age 9 and died by age 16; his first daughter, Mary I, sired on his first wife, Catherine of Aragon; and then his second daughter, Elizabeth I, who was sired on his second wife, Anne Boleyn, over which the Anglican Church was formed so Henry could divorce the wife he hated and ra...marry a younger model. Your knowledge of history is abysmal.

2. The serpent in the garden is never specifically identified as Satan. That is a later conflation of medieval Christians, not an actual part of the Bible.

3. The BDSM community hates that book not because of why Christian Grey was supposed to have gotten into it but because the story isn't about BDSM, it's about abuse. BDSM has HEAVY emphasis on safe, sane, and CONSENSUAL, and 50 Shades explicitly takes away the girl's consent repeatedly.

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Time Machine
4/4/2016 07:06:24 pm

Paul never uses the words "Original Sin" but he describes the equivalent.

And what does the issue of Henry VIII have got anything to do with this ?

Time Machine
4/4/2016 07:26:08 pm

The term "Original Sin" first used by Augustine of Hippo in Quaestiones ad Simplicianum.

Time Machine
4/4/2016 07:32:28 pm

"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22)

Uncle Ron
4/4/2016 03:19:28 pm

The actual movie that (more or less) mimics the Hellfire Club is "Eyes Wide Shut" with Tom Cruise.

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Clete
4/4/2016 04:15:14 pm

I actually went and paid money to see "Eyes Wide Shut". I walked out of the theater wondering how Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman could make sex boring...but they did.

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Ph
4/4/2016 03:36:06 pm

Satanic is not only what it used to be.

Anything taboo breaking will be deemed satanic by the smallminded masses in a lazy excuse not to have to think for themselves and just rely on ye old comfy values.

Varying from heliocentrisme, witchcraft herbalism to rockmusic and freedom in sexual experimentation.

In this world i have never been confronted with something really satanic, only smallminded satanicness.

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Joseph Craven
4/4/2016 04:47:46 pm

Of course nobody fears a Quaker takeover. We're a very mellow people. And besides, so many of you outsiders are convinced that we're peaceful, backwards amish analogues that the revolution will take you entirely by surprise.

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Uncle Ron
4/4/2016 08:15:18 pm

Please just tell me that you will continue to make oat meal.

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Joseph Craven
4/5/2016 12:59:02 am

Its consumption will be mandatory in the new order. The Quaker Oats company and their perpetuation of the harmless quaint quaker image was a key element in our subterfuge.

Kal
4/4/2016 06:52:16 pm

Henry was incapable of producing 'viable male heirs', as the only male one died. Ergo the rather hind sighed comment still applies. Girl baby takes over later. Nine year old boy who dies only 7 years later doesn't count. He banished or beheaded the females he didn't like because they did not make him the children he wanted, and he recreated the church there so he could fool around. History later speculates, not proves of course, that it was because he didn't have as much XY sperm. He had more XX sperm. (Speculation as there is no way to genetically test it).

Still I should not have learned such research from movies and the internet. I was just too bored of Henry to even go there.


Naturally though one of you got into the one and only minor point and ran with it, whether or not he was a cad. History does prove he was a cad, but he was not a devil.

Then you deny that Genesis even happened, V, and that somehow they made it up later. If that is true, then 2 billion people on the planet are wrong, and you are right, because you're somehow smarter than 2 billion people.

What was the snake if he was not a devil then? Did you not get my implication that if God is all knowing, why does he let the snake do that? It's from an earlier tradition probably related to the Babylonians and even Egyptians, not to the new testament. It's in the old one. It is also something shared by other Jewish and not Christian writings.

Sure my knowledge of old British kings is not so hot, but I do know me some old testament.

I did say that 50 Shades was about abuse. It was about control not about a healthy relationship. I just didn't spell it out that it was bad, because I was not making a call about if it was all like that. I just pointed out why Gray was doing what he did in the book. Evidently you did not read the series up to book 3 in which they reveal Gray was abused.

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Time Machine
4/4/2016 07:11:17 pm

The story of the Garden of Eden is pivotal to Christianity. It didn't mean that much to Judaism (and still doesn't today).

The sacrifice on the Cross was the atonement - that is, putting right what was done wrong in the Garden of Eden - there is no need to believe in a historical Christ to discuss this (the death and resurrection was originally a religious rite anyway, later developed into a historical narrative in the second century in things called the Gospels).



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Clint Knapp
4/5/2016 03:49:53 am

Edward VI died at the age of 15 to illness. That does not qualify him as an inviable heir, merely a young man who died of health issues common to his time.

Henry VIII produced more than one son. There were three boys sired during his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, all named Henry, Duke of Cornwall, two stillborn and one who lived 52 days. All told Catherine had become pregnant six times - three boys, and three girls, of which only Mary survived. This does not point to any inability on Henry's behalf to produce viable male sperm. With this one wife alone he sired three boys and three girls - 50/50 odds.

Anne Boleyn, further, carried two more sons of her three children by Henry. One miscarried, one stillborn. Only her daughter Elizabeth survived. Again, this does not support a "genetically incapable" argument toward producing males on Henry's part.

Henry had no other children with the rest of his wives past Edward VI with Jane Seymore. He did, however, have an illegitimate son in 1519 with Elizabeth Blount, a boy named Henry FitzRoy whom he recognized legally in 1525.

In case you aren't paying attention, that means all told Henry VIII sired seven sons and four daughters. Your argument he had "more XX sperm" is therefore entirely disproven by facts that you could have easily found in the time it took to rampantly spout uniformed nonsense about being "genetically incapable".

The truth of the matter is that medical technology in 16th Century England was almost nonexistent. Hygiene was an afterthought, and most diseases were treated with nothing more effective than astrologically-centered folk remedies that were often more toxic than they were tonic.

Stillborn children and infant deaths were common throughout the period. All romanticizing/demonizing attached to Henry's "Great Matter" aside, the facts only show that these issues were as common among the high born as they were the low.

Bonus:
V did not "deny that Genesis even happened", only stated the well-known and textually supported fact that the serpent in the Garden is not identified with the devil in the text itself. It is only depicted as a mischievous creature later cursed to crawl around on its belly for its part in the events.

Furthermore, since Adam is cast out of Eden and denied access to the tree of life because of the trickster serpent's machinations, the serpent of Eden can be paralleled to the serpent in Tablet 11 of the Epic of Gilgamesh. There, the serpent steals a plant Gilgamesh had fetched at great difficulty from the bottom of the sea that was said to have the power to make him immortal (or, at least in the Akkadian originals, "regain his vigor"). Gilgamesh, however, wasn't quite sure and was taking the plant home to Uruk for a little human experimentation to make sure it worked on some old people before he'd try it himself.

Regardless, at least in some small respect, it can be said that yes; there is an earlier Mesopotamian tradition of serpents as untrustworthy creatures associated with stories of mortality and immortality. However, it still bears no association with Satan in the Eden story as given in the text.

Ha-Satan, the Hebrew term typically translated as "the adversary", is never applied to the serpent textually. The Adversary (not always the same figure, but a title attached to several beings), appears throughout the Hebrew Bible, notably in Job, but does so with approval from God - an agent of divinity, rather than a directly opposing force. Ha-Satan does not appear until 1 Chronicles.

The Adversary is often given free reign without punishment to do as it will to test the strength and character of man. The serpent was punished for its deeds leading man to go against the will of God entirely.

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Time Machine
4/5/2016 04:19:44 am

Clint Knapp,

Have you gone senile ?
Or are you kidding.,,

Time Machine
4/5/2016 04:24:38 am

That was a 637 word-long message from Clint Knapp - about absolutely nothing.

He obviously takes his information from some standard encyclopedia and copies and pastes it here.


Clint Knapp
4/5/2016 04:27:01 am

Adorable. The troll who pastes book summaries from Amazon is accusing me of plagiarism.

Yawn.

Time Machine
4/5/2016 04:35:15 am

There have been many claims here on this blog that nowhere in the New Testament is the serpent in the Garden of Eden identified as Satan, That does not matter if the implication exists in the first place. If the implication never existed then the identification would never have been made later on in later Christianity.

And here is one such example.

"Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned" (Romans 5:12)

Sin cannot enter the world without Satan/Devil.

Oh, I know, the Devil/Satan is not mentioned in that quote. Therefore, still no proof. I can see that coming. Let's therefore say that the three of them - Adam, Eve and the Serpent are composites of the same thing that add up to being the Devil/Satan.

Screw copying and pasting what is found in standard encyclopaedias.

Witness I did not have to use 637 words to write this,

Time Machine
4/5/2016 04:48:35 am

Justin Martyr was rhe first Christian to identify the Serpent with Satan (Dialogue with Trypho, chapters 45 & 79).

Birds of a Feather
4/5/2016 04:59:11 pm

Yeah, you didn't write 637 words, you've written untold thousands and we're all still less than impressed, though you are worth a laugh here and there, I'll grant you.

Time Machine
4/6/2016 01:21:39 am

You're less than impressed because you're a stooge of convention.

Birds of a Feather
4/6/2016 11:29:56 am

LOL, oh poor GIGO, he's a lone wolf fighting to enlighten us all about the French Revolution. YAWN

Birds of a Feather
4/6/2016 01:46:20 pm

I do apologise for my silly behaviour.
I will try my best to avoid personal attacks.

Time Machine
4/6/2016 05:17:01 pm

I also apologize for my complete inability to grasp anything that hasn't been funneled through the mindset of senile Victorians.

Shane Sullivan
4/5/2016 01:32:34 am

"I have a book on my shelf called Possession: Demoniacal and Other by T. K. Oestererreich that, for all its faults, documents that what we call demonic possession—and therefore exorcism—is found everywhere on earth and all times, not just among Christians."

Having just read, not two days ago, an article about possession in 'Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Belief, Practices, and Culture (A book which has its own faults)', I can attest to this.

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Jason Colavito link
4/5/2016 06:37:56 am

Honestly, I picked up the "Possession" book at a used book sale for $1 just because the title looked like the kind of thing a horror movie villain would have on his bookshelf, and I thought it would look amusing next to my copy of "Head-Hunting in the Solomon Islands."

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Shane Sullivan
4/5/2016 01:59:48 pm

Right between the Dee Necronomicon and a dog-eared copy of "Good Eatin' with Ed Gein", no doubt!

Kal
4/5/2016 03:17:33 pm

Henry. As I said, I got most of my info from movies and the net, not from studying English Kings, so thanks for the background, but I will have to later research it. It was not expecting a lecture, but had given one, so that's what I get.

People ha a lot of children even before the 20th century because many died. Henry did have a war wound. Also he was mad he wasn't producing and took it out on his wives. It wasn't their fault the children died. That was the snarky point. He did end up succeeding though with an heir, just not as he assumed. Sure you can completely dismiss the genetic stuff if you like, or poor medicine (more likely), or Henry 8 was just nuts, (as possible).

Genesis was so a big part of Hebrew texts as it was the beginning where Sin entered the world. Denying the significance of Adam and Eve and the tricky Serpent is denying where sin came in. (Granted some of you might not believe that, and that's fine, but you cannot have God without an Adversary, or he has no reason to even make rules).

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Time Machine
4/6/2016 01:22:59 am

What has the issue of Henry VIII got to do with anything

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Time Machine
4/6/2016 01:25:46 am

>>Genesis was so a big part of Hebrew texts as it was the beginning where Sin entered the world.<<

Christianity and Judaism have two differing concepts of sin.

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Joey zzzzz
3/17/2018 03:26:01 am

I was blown away by how hyperbolic (and borderline dishonest) this show’s take on satanism was. They constantly convoluted paganism and libertinism with satanism. Not to mention all the “scary” images and filters used liberally throughout to basically convey the message. that everything is satanic. I’m no expert in satanism but I know enough to see right through all the bullshit guests and their editorial stances to make a “documentary” about the imminent rise of satanism and scare the bejesus out of the woefully ignorant!!
Nice review Jason, you put it much more succinctly than I ever could.

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