Alaska officials walk out of session after Satanist Gives Invocation, ‘Hail Satan’

[adgloriam]

Thus, drawing analogy form the legal and business worlds, we should notice that one of the aspects where society is lagging most TODAY in terms of ethics is the legal provisioning of “coercion” and “moral harassment”.

@PetraG

(Vatican experts had proposed the term “brain washing” and APA moved a powerful controversy against it…So, even the terminology for “unethical proselytizing” taken together with “dangerous manipulative belief systems” has yet to be defined.)

A parallel example is the recent (last 2 years) sudden move against “fake news” being taken by the business world. It can decide elections and interfere with the fundamental democratic process. Pope Francis himself was considered one of the most affected public figures in the world by “fake news”. (If you’d check my writing on CAF I denounced the coordinated effort by certain groups to “pin” fake news on the pope to instrumentalize his image in their favor - long before anyone else was commenting on this.)

 

[PetraG]

Pope Francis himself was considered one of the most affected public figures in the world by “fake news”.

What does that mean? Do you mean he’s constantly taken out of context or do you mean he believes reports that do that?

I’m not quite sure what any of this has to do with an atheist using religious “inclusiveness” to invoke the Prince of Darkness for the shock value.

Do you think they’re going to have a litmus test that no one can raise public invocations when they can’t prove they believe what they’re saying or believe in the power they’re invoking? In a political setting? Good luck with that. (Pilate’s question isn’t rhetorical there…) Heaven forbid, we’d just invite those who literally ARE Satanists with a capital S.

This is not a Christian nation. There is a good argument it never has been. (Besides, the last I checked, nations can’t be baptized and governments who claim to be Christian don’t necessarily defend the Gospel when that is in any conflict with the government’s hold on worldy power.) It might be better not to stain the name of Christian by attaching it to a government that will not govern as Christ commanded Christian leaders to govern, which is to say as the servants of all without lording power over those they serve.