In the newspaper: Reformed Church of Satan

[jnderose]

More proof that Satan sometimes comes as a man of peace:
This stuff really gets me, I hate is so much because I know someone out there is saying, hey its not so bad afterall…

Some might argue the life of a mortgage broker is a living hell. For Mike Grace, of Birmingham, Mich., it’s not too far from the truth.

By day, he studies to be a loan officer. By night, he is High Magus Noxaura, the founder of the Reformed Church of Satan.

But this is a kinder, gentler Satanist, the Metro Times of Detroit reports. The church doesn’t worship Beelzebub, it believes in taking responsibility for your own actions and being your own god.

“I don’t care how much fun killing people is,” Grace joked to the paper, “that sort of thing is just not acceptable.”

He’s even got a Web site, positivesatanism.org.

Sadly, Grace fell from grace himself a few days after speaking with the weekly newspaper. He was fired from his promising brokerage position.

“You cannot be a religious leader without your faith being tested,” he told the paper.

 

[Michael_C]

Reformed Church of Satan? The Church of Satan must be devastated by this split…

 

[jnderose]

“You cannot be a religious leader without your faith being tested,” he told the paper.

And I have a question: If you are the “god”, how can your faith be tested in yourself??

 

[Ahimsa]

And I have a question: If you are the “god”, how can your faith be tested in yourself??

Being fired from a job is not something a god would expect. Believe me, that type of situation can really test a god’s faith.

 

[Milliardo]

Reformed Church of Satan? The Church of Satan must be devastated by this split…

There already has been a split before in the Church of Satan, when Michael Aquino left to form the Church of Set; I think he had some disagreement with Anton LaVey. The Church of Satan still mocks this sect by Aquino. Hhmm…seems like this new sect would be derided again by the LaVeyan Satanists.

 

[Durendin]

I would think that “rebellion” would be encouraged in the Church of Satan?

 

[Le_Cracquere]

Please don’t let the source be a hoax (though I entertain grave fears). It would be just too good to see where a Satanic schism story might go. If the average urban reporter thinks that backwoods primitive fundamentalist CHRISTIANS are scary, just imagine the Satanist equivalent of a snake-handling congregation. Although, actually … I’m not perfectly sure that they could top the whole snake-handling business. Okay, they’ll wear black while they do it. MWAH-HAH-HAAAAAH!

"Infernal friends, let’s pass the plate today for Brother Hecubus, whose familiar has been under the weather this week. Now turn to page 66 in your anti-hymnals and sing it out: ‘What a fiend we have…’ "

Must stop …