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In reply to the discussion: Would you be cool with Hillary's faith if she was a Satanist? [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)But here's the thing: The movies almost never get anything right, let alone religion. You've probably seen some movie bad guys who claim to be practicing voodoo as well but a houngun wouldn't recognise his own faith in what's on screen. And the movie rpresentations of my faith are about as accurate.
I have an alter. Not all Satanists do but I do. And when I wish to pray, I knee before my alter (swearing at the pain in my knees), I burn a symbolic pinch of herbs (which symbolises Father Lucifer's sacrifice), light a candle and some incense (no spiritual reason, they just make the place smell nice) and I start my prayer by saying "Father Lucifer, light-bringer, star of the morning, great dragon, first to fall. In your sight, I pray". That helps me centre myself and get in the right state of mind to worship. Then I say my prayer. And I conclude by saying "Always in your name" (a reminder that I am representing Father Lucifer as I live in the world).
But if you couldn't hear what I was saying, if you could only see me, knelt in front of my alter with clasped hands and a bowed head, you wouldn't know that my faith was any different from any other.
The movies are fine, some are even very good (see Rosemary's Baby if you haven't) but they're fiction. The Wicker Man doesn't represent pagans and Black Circle Boys (or whatever) doesn't represent us.
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