Laurie Cabot - willfully ignorant about Satanist views on animal sacrifice?

[diane_vera]

According to the news story What washed up on the Keansburg beach? by Alyssa Passeggio, Bayshore Courier (New Jersey, U.S.A.), May 9, 2008:
Keansburg Police Deputy Chief James Pigott said Patrolman Michael Deaney responded to a finding of four garbage bags and two shopping bags containing headless chickens and the innards on April 17. There are no

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Sacrifice

[julian_karswell]

This constant harking on about the sacrifice of animals and children reminds me very much of the 'blood libel' against Jews - that they use the blood of children in their rituals. Interestingly, the pagan Romans used the same libel against Christians when they first began to be known in Rome.

The animal-torturer Aleister Crowley and his well-documented cases of the ritual killing of animals have not helped occultists of any hue get away from the 'blood ritual' slur.

Let's have a look at the word Sacrifice - it means to make something holy or sacred - to belong to the gods, not much use to a Satanist, Theistic or otherwise!
Sacrifice is a very Judaeo-Christian concept in the sense of having to forgo pleasure and offering your misery up to a deity.

Animal parts washed up on a beach? Sounds more like the dark arts of avoiding food hygiene laws rather than black magic.

Regards

Julian Karswell
www.opusdiaboli.info
http://blog.opusdiaboli.info/

[abbadie]

Hello. Sorry to cut in like that, just got here by tracking links from one of your community's users

Santeria in Mexico

[diane_vera]

Thanks for your comment.

In Mexico, has there been any significant effort to get Santeria recognized as a legitimate form of spirituality, given how popular it is?

I agree that there have been actual "occult crimes." However, there have been way too many phony "experts" running around, sensationalistically exploiting the topic for their own gain, or for evangelistic purposes.

As for the guy who slowly sawed off a cat's head: Yuck! Obviously he was not trained in any genuine tradition of any kind.