Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism

Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that the Roman Catholic Church has warned that the internet has fueled a surge in Satanism that has led to a sharp rise in the demand for exorcists. 'The internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satanism. In just a few minutes you can contact Satanist groups and research occultism,' says Carlo Climati, a member of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome who specializes in the dangers posed to young people by Satanism. Organizers of a six-day conference that has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and youth workers, co-sponsored by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and the Congregation for Clergy, say the rise of Satanism has been dangerously underestimated in recent years."

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Ignorance of Sin Is No Excuse for Avoiding It

[Doc Ruby]

The Vatican's Catholic Church tells everyone (and I mean everyone) that the entire reason for life is to be tempted to sin, but instead to have faith in Jesus and avoid sin. Life is a test, they say, where god tests our faith in Jesus. Pass and go to heaven; fail and go to hell.

Even if this self-pitying myth about "Satan's war on the church" were actual truth, the Church should embrace it. Because it's "god's plan" to offer us temptation for us to refuse. The Internet is doing god's work.

But really it's just more hopeless BS PR from the Vatican to avoid blame for its own sins. Specifically its rampant baby rape:

[Gabriele Amorth] (the "president for life" of the International Association of Exorcists) claimed that the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries, were proof that the anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See. He said Pope Benedict XVI believed "wholeheartedly" in the practice of exorcism.

See? It's not a cult of baby rapers, headed by an evil pope who protected (and protects) them worldwide. It's just Satan and the antichrist making these people rape babies. People who are our only prayer to escape the clutches of Satan - and his goddamn Internet. The Church will save you, not rape your babies. Amen.

FWIW, the fortune at the bottom of the page in which I'm posting says "To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human." Brought to you by the Internet. I suppose that's proof that my computer is possessed by Satan. I should bring it to church, which starts in 15 minutes here as it has for literally millennia. Maybe someone will exorcise it, since the church's huge success in the world has been based on such proof of its power to protect us from Satan all these years.