The pic of the newspaper of Kerry meeting witht he Church of Satan guy is a hoax.... just trying to clear the air... last thing we need is people going overboard with this stuff. :) Peace
Posted on 10/23/2004 9:19:20 PM EDT by brian_wilson
The British Armed Forces has officially recognised its first registered Satanist, according to a newspaper report. Naval technician Chris Cranmer, 24, has been allowed to register by the captain of HMS Cumberland.
The move will mean that he will now be allowed to perform Satanic rituals on board the vessel.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Cranmer realised he was a Satanist nine years ago.
Religious values
At the time he stumbled across a copy of the Satanic Bible, written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey.
He said: "I then read more and more and came to realise I'd always been a Satanist, just simply never knew."
Mr Cranmer, who is from Edinburgh, is now lobbying the Ministry of Defence to make Satanism a registered religion in the armed forces.
A spokesman for the Royal Navy said: "We are an equal opportunities employer and we don't stop anybody from having their own religious values."
The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco in 1966.
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Praise the Lord for good legal decisions.
FWIW -- The year shown on the paper appears to be in the 1980's -- can't see much of the last digit. But the only two years in that decade in which July 17 fell on Sunday were 1983 and 1988 -- neither of which looks like it could match that last digit in the year.