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Happy birthday to (modern) Satanism! 60 years ago today, Anton LaVey officially launched the Church of Satan.
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Also, as today (30th April) is Hexennacht, I'm remembering and honoring those who have been hurt, killed, or had their freedom taken away as a result of superstition or pseudoscience.
Too many people were tortured and killed in witch hunts through the centuries.
Too many lives have been stolen and ruined by cults and even mainstream religions.
Too many people have given too much energy, time, and money to pseudoscience.
Too many people were accused of terrible acts and too many others were unreasonably worked into a frenzied state of fear during the satanic panic.
Too many people continue to devote energy to superstitions – energy that could be better used in other parts of their lives.
oh and happy Walpurgisnacht ya’ll
On May 13, 1717, at around seven-thirty in the morning at the Hofburg in Vienna, a daughter was born to Emperor Charles VI and his wife Elisabeth Christine. On the evening of the same day, the infant was baptized by the name of Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christine....
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Maria was a Christian name given to all Habsburg daughters. Maria was the patron of the dynasty and its lands, magna mater Austriae, the head of the hierarchy of saints and most powerful of all heavenly intercessors. Theresa referred to one of the central figures in the post-Tridentine communion of saints, the Spanish mystic Teresa of Ávila; canonized in 1622, patron of the Spanish monarchy, and founder of the order of Barefoot Carmelites. Walburga was an eighth-century saint, the object of great popular devotion in Austria and the patron of childbirth. The baby was named Amalia after one of her two godmothers, Amalia Wilhelmina, widow to Joseph I. Lastly, the name Christine was taken from her mother, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time - Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Walpurgisnacht
HAVE A WONDERFUL AND WICKED WALPURGISNACHT!
HoXXV februarii... Sanctae Walburgae
The earliest representation of Saint Walpurga from the Hitda Codex, commissioned by Hitda the abbess of Meschede in 1020. ( source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitda_Codex)