Feel the Burn
Food For Thought
Thanksgiving is a strange expedition in our culture: Is it about genocide, New England cuisine, or political tensions in your family? That’s a lot of range.
The Cows Come Home
If ranchers want to know who’s really behind “cattle mutilations,” fine. The real culprits are quite obvious: It’s not Satanists. It’s the ranchers.
You Don’t Have To Change The Wrong Minds
Calling conspiracists like Jon Voight stupid doesn’t change their minds. But what if I don’t want to change minds? What if I just want to say what’s true?
When “god” Loses Too
Through stories like the Satan myth, we can confront our own falliblity. If we don’t, then we condemn ourselves to the one true Hell: denialism.
What the Devil Is the Temple of the Vampire?
The Temple of the Vampire says it’s “the only organization that represents the true vampire religion.” We wouldn’t know how to begin debunking that,
A Grotesque Development
Why did old world builders decorate their most holy buildings with gargoyles and other Satanic images of leering devils? Simply, because we love them.
Are You Smarter Than a Flat-Earther?
Science tells us that people who believe irrational things are not necessarily stupid. But just for the hell of it, let’s give that idea some air anyway.
Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark Ages
Everyone knows the story about the Hookman–but why? This redoubtable but stupid urban legend sticks around because, like devil myths, it has an agenda.
Sinister Ministers
The word “priest” meant “one put over others,” and oh boy can you fuck right off with that. Just writing those words makes my skin crawl and not come back.
Haught Cross Bunk
Is an inverted cross a Satanic symbol, or a Catholic one? The answer is…not important. What’s important is why we might like it in the first place.
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