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Jun. 1st, 2011 20:58Tuesday May 31, 2011 Montreal, May 30, 2011 — Misconceptions about the Church of Satan abound. For many people, anything with the word Satan is synonymous with evil, conjuring up images of gory offerings and babies bred for sacrifice. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Cimminnee Holt, a graduate student from Concordia University's Department of Religion, who has published a new study "Death and Dying in the Satanic Worldview," in the Journal of Religion & Culture.
Her unraveling of the myths and distortions surrounding the Church of Satan shows it to be a law-abiding, atheistic new religious movement, thriving on the margins of society....
Upsetting people's expectations was, no doubt, what founder Anton Szandor LaVey intended when he first announced the existence of the Church of Satan in 1966. A showman with an aggressive public persona, LaVey liked to shake up the status quo. And how best to trump convention than to adopt a name that suggests devil-worship but really means adversary in Hebrew?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/cu-sft053011.php
***Prison Vouchers Sasha Volokh May 31, 2011 12:33 pm
In this Article, I invite the reader to indulge in a thought experiment. What would the world look like if, instead of assigning prisoners to particular prisons bureaucratically, we gave them vouchers, good for one incarceration, that they were required to redeem at a participating prison?
http://volokh.com/2011/05/31/prison-vouchers/#more-46731
***To the food shelf at Minnehaha United Methodist Church.
As always, there were unusual optional items. I passed up the canned squid pieces.
Her unraveling of the myths and distortions surrounding the Church of Satan shows it to be a law-abiding, atheistic new religious movement, thriving on the margins of society....
Upsetting people's expectations was, no doubt, what founder Anton Szandor LaVey intended when he first announced the existence of the Church of Satan in 1966. A showman with an aggressive public persona, LaVey liked to shake up the status quo. And how best to trump convention than to adopt a name that suggests devil-worship but really means adversary in Hebrew?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/cu-sft053011.php
***Prison Vouchers Sasha Volokh May 31, 2011 12:33 pm
In this Article, I invite the reader to indulge in a thought experiment. What would the world look like if, instead of assigning prisoners to particular prisons bureaucratically, we gave them vouchers, good for one incarceration, that they were required to redeem at a participating prison?
http://volokh.com/2011/05/31/prison-vouchers/#more-46731
***To the food shelf at Minnehaha United Methodist Church.
As always, there were unusual optional items. I passed up the canned squid pieces.