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Originally Posted by crich70
I guess I've just never equated the word Satanic with innocent childhood fun. Not that I'm saying anyone else here is either.
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Well, actual Satanism as practiced by actual Satanists (as opposed to the common Hollywood media depiction of them) is really more of a philosophical stance than a religion, from what I've read about it. And anything can be kiddified if you try hard enough.
Why, just look at all those
Cthulhu plushies (of which I am not ashamed to say that I own no fewer than three and would have gotten more if the shipping up to Canada weren't so expensive). Or the fearsome bear, turned from humankind's forest foe into its cuddliest sleeping companion. Or what Disney did to a whole lot of rather gory cautionary fairy tales.
Reputation of the religion involved aside, it really is a perfectly cromulent colouring activity book suitable† for the kiddies.
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Originally Posted by mrscoach
I'm still snickering over the name of the guy in the article. His last name is Greaves, but I'm not sure if he uses the long e sound or the long a sound (I've heard it both ways), but in my head I called him Lucian Graves. Did his parents give him that name? Or did he adopt it later?
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It's an adopted name, and there's an interesting interview with him
over at Vice.com (safe for work for this particular article; the rest of the site, well…), who also have some excellent pictures of the aforementioned
goat-headed Baphomet statue (perhaps less safe for work, depending on where you work if it's a fundamentalist sort of place that objects to your browsing pictures of goat-headed Baphomet statues at work).
† Probably moreso than those
Jack Chick tracts which I've heard that some areas in the States tend to pass out instead of candy on Hallowe'en.