{"id":21064,"date":"2013-07-12T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21064"},"modified":"2013-07-12T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:04:51","slug":"satanists-and-the-texas-abortion-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/satanists-and-the-texas-abortion-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Satanists and the Texas abortion debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/dont_tug_on_lucifers_cape_kathy_shaidle\/print#ixzz2Ye8Bfbi5\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Shaidle<\/a> finds the Satanists aren&#8217;t at all what she expected them to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the height of all the #HailSatan hilarity on the left side of Twitter, a single thunderclap of a Tweet shut down the party pronto:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Unfortunate to see Satan\u2019s name used in such a diabolical manner. Another example of what \u2018Satanism\u2019 doesn\u2019t represent. #HailSatan\u201d\u2014@UKChurchofSatan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was that utterly breathtaking inclusion of the word \u201cdiabolical\u201d that got me thinking like a liberal: that is, that the @UKChurchofSatan Twitter account had to be fake, set up specifically to mock the proceedings, in the tradition of \u201cClint\u2019s Empty Chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My suspicions were confirmed when I saw that, according to their profile, @UKChurchofSatan was following precisely 666 others on Twitter. Cute.<\/p>\n<p>Their profile didn\u2019t display the address of an official website, either. Not a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>But I kept scrolling down. @UKChurchofSatan had sent out over 150 Tweets \u2014 wishing followers happy bank holiday weekends and re-Tweeting Richard Dawkins and Ricky Gervais \u2014 dating back through March.<\/p>\n<p>It was legit.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike messages regularly spewed out by the right and the left, the Church\u2019s Tweets were models of old-fashioned decorum even when they were responding to critics, written in that anachronistic, typing-with-a-quill-pen style typical of earnest, fairly well-read males:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Why wouldn\u2019t Satanism be pro-life? What else is there? We are all free to make choices. Agreeable or not. Everyone is entitled to choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least in this online iteration, Satanism comes across as a kind of Goth objectivism but manages to express itself without the average Ayn Rand follower\u2019s pompous, unearned sense of superiority.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its disapproving July 3 Tweet, which was re-Tweeted over one hundred times and gleefully reported all over the Web and a few newspapers such as the <em>Telegraph<\/em>, the @UKChurchofSatan is getting lots of positive attention, much of it from a most unlikely source: conservative Christian bloggers in the US, who\u2019ve joked that \u201cHail Satan!\u201d would make a fine Democratic campaign slogan for the 2014 midterms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Shaidle finds the Satanists aren&#8217;t at all what she expected them to be: At the height of all the #HailSatan hilarity on the left side of Twitter, a single thunderclap of a Tweet shut down the party pronto: Unfortunate to see Satan\u2019s name used in such a diabolical manner. 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