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Posted on 07/16/2012 7:49:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A local couple who claim to be Satanists believe they’re a victim of a hate crime and were targeted because of their religious beliefs.
Someone cut down a political poster stating, “VOTE SATAN” from their front porch where they live in Mountain View, a suburb of Denver.
“We are Satanists… Satanists,” said Luigi Bellaviste.
Luigi and Angie Bellaviste belong to the Church of Satan. They even have a Satanic Bible in their home.
The couple is upset because a poster they had hanging from their front porch was recently cut down.
It wasn’t very popular with some neighbors.
“Everybody that sees that sign says, ‘What is going on with those people?,’” said neighbor Mary Morasco.
The couple’s home and yard are decorated with items like a Christmas tree that has been painted black, skulls and the number 666. They believe the cutting down of the poster was an attack on their religious beliefs.
“I feel like we’re being treated unfairly because it’s not a so-called mainstream religion,” said Luigi.
“I know of many people who have the Virgin Mary and tons of Jesus memorabilia ‘I Love Jesus’ and what is the difference?” said Angie.
Despite their opinion on the couple’s choice of lawn ornaments, most of the Bellaviste’s neighbors are on their side.
“It’s still their property. It’s still their house. They have a right to say whatever they have to say,” said one neighbor.
“Everyone has their own religion… to each his own, I guess,” said another neighbor.
The couple wants the police to consider the incident a hate crime because their religion is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“Had that been the Star of David or a verse from the Koran,” said Luigi, “or something like that got damaged by somebody against those beliefs that would certainly be considered a hate crime.”
An officer with the Mountain View Police Department said the report will likely be filed as theft because there was no obvious attack on the couple’s church or religious beliefs.
Hate is Satan’s way of saying welcome to the neighborhood. Kind of ironic that satanists would be upset by this. They must be fake satanists.
yeah, why of all people they would complain about getting hazed by the devil??
They must be fake satanists.
You’re right. Real Satanists would like hate crimes.
Satanists are oddly less offensive or dangerous then Muslims. They don’t force their beliefs on others, kill people or behead their own daughters for talking to boys. If you believe in Satan it makes you wonder who his true followers are.
Put a rock through their window, and claim: “the devil made me do it.”
I’ve seen a few “Vote Satan” signs, only they call Satan Obama.
Mostly, yes Satanists do keep their observations private and do not make it a policy to wish overt harm on others.
It’s still possible for one to really get a bellyful of the devil then go off and do something destructively bizarre; this is a danger of all occultism.
You mean even Satanists are just another whiny victim group these days? What is this country coming to?
Listen, you sympathie with satanist, you deserve what you get.
What a flipping mormon. What is the difference between satan and mohammad?
The devil you say.
Mohammad wasn’t a snake in the Garden of Eden, I guess.
WHAT are they complaining about??? For a Satanist, theft should be perfectly OK!
Why would Satan want people who openly worship him to be obnoxious? The controversy between God and Satan is the accusation God is not really Just Holy and righteous. Therefore Islam, denominational Christians, Judaism blasphemes God by forcing on their adherents things God doesn’t command.
A real satanist would applaud people “doing what thou wilt”. That’s the first commandment of the satanist: do what you want. Right there in LeVay’s Satanic Bible, Aleister Crowley approved.
Obviously a couple people wanted to take these folks’ poster. They did what they wanted. They are living the satanists’ faith better than they are.
I now have to question the sincerity of their satanic faith.
Even Mohammed stated he felt possessed while writing the Koran. He thought he was going mad. That’s what demon possession is about.
That WAS a warning. Judeo-Christianity does not behave that way. The person with the holy vision in that system does not perceive the vision as driving him mad (though others may accuse him mistakenly of being mad).
And the Satanists are now doing what they will, which is pretty pathetic, but still it’s what they will: complain!
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