Modern Satanism

It seems that a minority of people are waking up to the growing insanities of the last 50 years and they are partly doing so because of the coronavirus lockdown which is starting to be seen as potentially destroying more lives than it saves, certainly in the long term. Politicians and journalists have long been distrusted but now scientists are also being viewed as flawed know-nothings in hock to corporate cash and ideology. Religious leaders are largely just functionaries and most artists are frauds. This is a growing perception.

Over the weekend I read this comment on a newspaper blog. I've edited it a bit for grammatical sake but only very slightly. "In acting the way it has, I believe the state has proved that none of the destruction of the country over recent decades has been an accident. Malign forces have brought about every increase in uncontrolled immigration, every attack on our culture and identity, every weakening of our justice system and police. It is inconceivable that any of this is some sort of accident or natural evolution of lessening ability in the people occupying parliament (though many of them are unqualified to be there). The nation and its people remain a definite identifiable thing but it has been deconstructed demographically and culturally, and now been terrified and propagandised into a crisis that will take a long time to get over if indeed we ever do. The English have had their freedom stolen and the BBC and government smile while they are doing it."

I don't know what the commenter meant by malign forces, whether he was referring to some kind of earthly movement with an agenda of eroding the values of Western civilisation so it could grab power or something beyond that. If the former, I would say he is wrong but if the latter then he has summed the situation up well.

There is no earthly conspiracy masterminded by some Illuminati group or, if there is, they don't have that much power and are not the real source of the destruction of the West. (The East too but that will follow the West.) On the other hand, there is a spiritual conspiracy orchestrated from a place beyond the physical world and the beings involved use any such groups for their own purposes. These groups would be discarded and sacrificed once they have served those purposes. Thus, the global lockdowns were not cooked up in some secret hideout by politicians, bankers and such like intent on a political takeover but by demons working for the spiritual destruction of human beings. This is why governments could seemingly almost stumble into them, obviously with no real plan except self-preservation and the desire to be seen to be doing the right thing. It's why so many factors, virus, media frenzy, 'the science', a culturally decadent population and so on all came together in the way they did to bring about a particular result.

This may sound sensationalist but it has been the common religious understanding for a very long time, and the fact of demonic attack on the human soul has only been lost sight of over the last couple of centuries as the devil faded from public view, the more effectively to carry out his designs. He has done this so well that most people are satanists now.

That is a serious accusation and I will need to back it up. This is what I mean. Most people are obviously not Satanists in the traditional sense of black masses, devil worship etc, but what was the thing that made Lucifer become Satan? It was the denial of God and the desire to become independent of him, maybe even greater than him, not responsible to him at all. Is this not the majority position now? We may not practise traditionally Satanic rites but we do live lives in which God has no place. He is not just kicked out from the centre where he should be. He is barely acknowledged at all other than in a most perfunctory and more or less meaningless way. The essence of Satanism is not in doing evil things but in denying God and that is the principal evil of the present day. Naturally, from the denial of God many other things proceed, actions and thoughts, modes of behaviour, ideologies and beliefs that embed that denial deeper into consciousness and cause a greater separation between a person who holds to this way of life and that person's spiritual source.

Most people do not actively pursue obviously evil ways. After all, and not meaning to be facetious, that does require quite a bit of effort. But two things make us satanists (let us give it a small 's' to differentiate it from its usual meaning). These are the alienation from God and the growing self-centredness. Oh yes, we are constantly enjoined to think of others and be kind but this is meaningless really given the fact that our sense of self is magnified and we no longer look beyond ourselves for the true reality of what we are. We can either look for our true being in God or we can find it in self. It is this latter which makes so many people of the present day satanists.