Blog commentary "An Exorcist Comments on Walmart’s Satanic Products"

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Tis_Bearself said:
Apparently the National Catholic Register has deleted this story. I was able to get it out of a cache and read it.
There is also this other blogger commenting on the original story.

Wal Mart, the Devil, and the Mystery of the Bashful Exorcist | Mary Pezzulo

I wonder if the story was deleted because the exorcist is anonymous and that makes the story look somewhat hinky.

Or possibly Walmart sent a lawyer letter.
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I clicked on the link and the original story is still there. It hasn’t been removed.
 
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That’s interesting, because when I, using my laptop, click on the link the OP posted to the story, I just get the portal page for the website:

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I tried going to Patti Armstrong’s blog page, where there are links to all her blog posts. The Wal-mart story is in her list of links. But when I click it, I get the portal page, as above. When I click on her other links to blog posts (e.g. the one about Fulton Sheen) it takes me to the actual story.

I tried copying the link to the story and putting it directly into my browser, instead of clicking. I got the portal page, as shown above.

I tried finding the story in Google search and clicking on it from the search page, and I got the portal page, as shown above.

This happened to me in both the current version of Chrome and in Microsoft Edge browsers on the laptop. Like I said, all the other stories work fine.

I then tried it on my iPhone and the actual story came up when I clicked the link.

Maybe the demons are doing something with the tech…
 
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Are you people soooooo starved for a titillating scandalous story that you are blind to what obviously happened here?

Some hackers with a beef against Walmart hacked their website and inserted a whole bunch of way over the top “Baphomet” items, then contacted Church Militant because they knew Voris and crew would lap it up like puppies, which they dutifully did, hook line and sinker. The Register picked up on the CM story without taking the time to do any fact checking.

No, Walmart was never selling any Baphomet idols.
No, there was never any “exorcist”.

I’m far from a fan of Walmart, but it is not right that they be unfairly hurt due to a nasty (but clever) hacker prank.

Use some common sense, folks, and think critically about over the top stories like this. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
 
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Jbrady said:
Use some common sense, folks, and think critically about over the top stories like this.
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Um, at least two of us (myself and (name removed by moderator)) have “thought critically” about the story. No need to act like the whole thread is full of hysteria.

I thought there was something hinky with it because on my late-model laptop I can’t even access the story, it’s like it’s been hidden from view. And (name removed by moderator) said it’s an Amazon sales model, which it is. You can find dealers selling Baphomets on Amazon, eBay and every place else using the Amazon sales model where a dealer basically opens a storefront.

I notice that if you google “Walmart Baphomet”, a bunch of items come up but when you click them you get a “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist”. I don’t think this was due to hackers but probably that Walmart didn’t like the publicity and cancelled the listings. There’s still plenty of Lucifer and pentagram items and the like to buy, from the private dealers.

Of course I’m not going to stop shopping at Walmart over this and never said I would. :roll_eyes:
The whole point of letting dealers have storefronts on your site is that the parent company doesn’t pay much attention to what they are selling unless the items are either illegal or some bad PR like this happens.
 
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Love that costume! Have to get one for my mom’s dog! Thanks!

The giveaway that it was a hack was that the only light on the alt-Christian board to start flashing was CM, three weeks ago and not a whisper since until the Register article now, which is based on the CM article as regurgitated by some anonymous “exorcist”. The hackers were specifically trolling Voris.

Here’s the link to the original CM story:

(Apparently, this forum does not allow links to CM, so just enter walmart baphomet into Google news search).
 
Jbrady said:
Are you people soooooo starved for a titillating scandalous story that you are blind to what obviously happened here?

Some hackers with a beef against Walmart hacked their website and inserted a whole bunch of way over the top “Baphomet” items, then contacted Church Militant because they knew Voris and crew would lap it up like puppies, which they dutifully did, hook line and sinker. The Register picked up on the CM story without taking the time to do any fact checking.

No, Walmart was never selling any Baphomet idols.
No, there was never any “exorcist”.

I’m far from a fan of Walmart, but it is not right that they be unfairly hurt due to a nasty (but clever) hacker prank.

Use some common sense, folks, and think critically about over the top stories like this. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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There’s still Satanic items available on the Walmart website including the Satanic Bible and a book on Satanic rituals. It’s easy enough to locate.

And in the Walmart books category, there’s a whole sub-section on occult books.

It wasn’t a hack. Walmart does sell Satanic and occult books.
 
All the Satanic stuff frustrates me…as if it were some cultural fad. People who wear this stuff don’t really know what they’re doing.

I’m not talking about the dog costume. That is just sorta ridiculous…a funny share though.

The thing is are we creating a market for this stuff by getting worked up over it? I mean 95% percent of the time people wear this stuff simply to rile up Christians and Catholics. Sometimes I think that if you stop paying attention, people won’t buy this stuff.
 
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And he would be a pug. Snorting, bowlegged, slobbery, no neck…
 
In my area, Walmart sells the cheapest ammo. I’ll just avoid the Baphomet brand rounds.
 
OP, if you go to the page and click ctrl and f5 at the same time, it might disappear. The page might be cached on your local machine.
 
Hrm, people are saying that the link doesn’t work for them, but it works for me. Did they take it down and then put it back up?

In regards to the content, I’m skeptical about how knowledgeable or reliable the exorcist is. There’s not really any danger to criticizing Wal-Mart (people do it all the time) so there’s no real reason to have to be anonymous, which makes it suspiciously likely the reason for that is to make sure their credentials cannot in any way be rationally examined.
 
It seems to work only on certain browsers. I am thinking their webmaster may have tried to take the story down but did a half-baked job.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
It seems to work only on certain browsers. I am thinking their webmaster may have tried to take the story down but did a half-baked job.
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I think there might be some content filtering going on either by your internet router or web browser, or your computer. There’s software that can be installed on ones computer (or an add-on to one’s web browser) that’ll block content deemed not suitable based on keywords. Keywords could be words based on the occult, hence any webpage that uses these occult words are blocked.

A webmaster cannot take a story halfway down. It’s either up or it’s down. Though a webmaster (with extra work) can block certain pages from a range of IP addresses so a story can been seen in the United States but not in Canada (as an example).
 
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