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CHRISTIAN groups in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland are working to quell the rapid growth of Satanism after reports that thousands of teenagers from churches had taken up devil worship in recent months.
The Vatican’s Fides news agency recently reported that more than 3,000 young “worshipers of Satan” have been identified in Nagaland’s capital of Kohima alone. The actual strength of Satan worshippers is difficult to determine, but such groups also exist in Nagaland’s largest city of Dimapur, and they are using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to expand their network, said the Rev. Wati Longkumer, director of the Nagaland Missionary Movement, a group of mostly Baptist associations and churches. “Some of the Christian youth who have renounced Satan worship have told us that they would be called for services after midnight at the Kohima War Cemetery and other locations, and asked to wear black T-shirts and be called by their new nicknames,” Longkumer said. Longkumer said he has seen membership forms for a group calling itself the Black Bulls and inviting youngsters to become part of devil worship. Longkumer’s organization, part of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council, which consists of more than 1,300 churches, has assigned its youth department to conduct a detailed report. More than 90 percent of Nagaland’s 2 million residents are Christians, and about three-fourths of those identify as Baptist. The Rev. Ben Dang Toshi Longkumer, a Nagaland-based representative of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (no relation to Wati Longkumer), said the parents of numerous youngsters have expressed concerns about their children leaving home around midnight. “Satan worship has considerably changed the demeanor and the worldview of the youth, though no criminal activity by them has been reported thus far,” he said. In April, church groups in the state organized crusades to rescue youngsters from Satan worship. The Roman Catholic Church in Nagaland has said it is shocked to learn about the phenomenon and is working with Protestant groups to counter it. The Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, senior pastor of Koinonia Baptist Church in Kohima, said the cult is spreading like “wildfire” due to an identity crisis among the youth of the state plagued with corruption, insurgencies and intratribal conflicts.
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Everywhere has waves from time to time when lots of teenagers are turning to Satanism. After a while it dies out and they realize that nobody was actually in it in the first place.
 
CHRISTIAN groups in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland are working to quell the rapid growth of Satanism after reports that thousands of teenagers from churches had taken up devil worship in recent months.
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I find it quite typical that Christian groups believe they are the religious police and the rise of any religion they do not find acceptable they feel they must stamp out or discourage. Give these groups the power of the law or police and/or military and/or government and/or local support and the Inquisition rides again.

It is scary how very little separates the 21st century from the 16th century.
 
credoconsolans said:
CHRISTIAN groups in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland are working to quell the rapid growth of Satanism after reports that thousands of teenagers from churches had taken up devil worship in recent months.
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I find it quite typical that Christian groups believe they are the religious police and the rise of any religion they do not find acceptable they feel they must stamp out or discourage. Give these groups the power of the law or police and/or military and/or government and/or local support and the Inquisition rides again.

It is scary how very little separates the 21st century from the 16th century.
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This is true of all religions which finally receive the social stamp of approval. In order to retain that approval, they must challenge all unorthodox risings.
 
I think many Satan outbreaks are manufactured. Like Christians need some attention so they yell Satan occasionally. When things get slow, they just remind people of the biblical war and how important it is to be faithful and help stop the cat sacrifices, graffiti and other acts of vandalism that may have been carried out by Christians in the first place. At this point in history I think God verses Satan is just good publicity.
 
another1 said:
I think many Satan outbreaks are manufactured. Like Christians need some attention so they yell Satan occasionally. When things get slow, they just remind people of the biblical war and how important it is to be faithful and help stop the cat sacrifices, graffiti and other acts of vandalism that may have been carried out by Christians in the first place. At this point in history I think God verses Satan is just good publicity.
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Satan people (bored suburban kids and adults who were abused during childhood) are friends of God and the Church, in my opinion. Does that not make sense? Satan acknowledges God and shakes his fist like a villain who always loses, or whatever. That reinforces the idea that God is real, and that God is powerful. God verses nothingness is the problem that God and God people have. Not God verses Satan. Christians should have the common sense to know that Satan couldn't possibly be real. They like the attention Satan worshipers bring the Church, so they pretend it matters. I think that is a pretty reasonable opinion.
 
Tru dat. Superman would never sell if he was real. The writers need drama. The reality is that Lex Luthor would never stand a snowball's chance against that kind of power. Same with Yahweh.
 
God is obviously real but Satan, nah. Things are sometimes made up, but for good reason. I don't blame ancient Christians for spicing things up in the new Testament but I feel sorry for the people who believe that Satan is real. The things they say Satan can do defy the laws of physics.
 
Do mainstream denominations push the reality of Satan? Do you have to go to apostolic/evangelical settings to hear Satan described as a real being? Do the Presbyterians or Lutherans have Satan in their statements of faith? I'm curious but not curious enough to go to church.
It seems to me that if they don't talk about Satan then they're relegating JC's 40 days of temptation and his occasional words about Satan (LK 10:18) to allegory. At which point I feel justified in shoving their entire Jesus narrative into the allegory column.
 
ideologyhunter said:
Do mainstream denominations push the reality of Satan? Do you have to go to apostolic/evangelical settings to hear Satan described as a real being? Do the Presbyterians or Lutherans have Satan in their statements of faith? I'm curious but not curious enough to go to church.
It seems to me that if they don't talk about Satan then they're relegating JC's 40 days of temptation and his occasional words about Satan (LK 10:18) to allegory. At which point I feel justified in shoving their entire Jesus narrative into the allegory column.
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It probably just doesn't sound right to say, "I believe in Satan." So they waffle, like all of religion does. Satan belief seems like an anti-drug to religious intoxication for lots of people.
 
another1 said:
God is obviously real but Satan, nah. Things are sometimes made up, but for good reason. I don't blame ancient Christians for spicing things up in the new Testament but I feel sorry for the people who believe that Satan is real. The things they say Satan can do defy the laws of physics.
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Well if we're talking about the traditional Yahweh / Lucifer conflict suggested by the thread topic I find it difficult to understand why Satan's ability to defy laws of physics doesn't apply to Yahweh.
 
This is John Shelby Spong, Fmr.Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, who retired in 2001. He has an interesting perspective regarding this issue of fear and Satan in religion as a control tactic.

 
another1 said:
Satan acknowledges God and shakes his fist like a villain who always loses, or whatever. That reinforces the idea that God is real, and that God is powerful.
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Well, if they're worshiping the Christain fanfiction of the pagan god.

If they're pagan, worshiping the pagan god: Satan, though, they're not supporting the Christain mythos.
 
Keith&Co. said:
another1 said:
Satan acknowledges God and shakes his fist like a villain who always loses, or whatever. That reinforces the idea that God is real, and that God is powerful.
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Well, if they're worshiping the Christain fanfiction of the pagan god.

If they're pagan, worshiping the pagan god: Satan, though, they're not supporting the Christain mythos.
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Nothing supports the Christian mythos more than rooting for the opposing team. If you go to friends house and see mouse traps set in every corner, would you believe him if he said he didn't think there were any mice in the house?

That's a man who believes in the existence of mice, whether he has ever seen one, or not. Satan is an entity of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition. One cannot give any credence to Satan and not to the religious beliefs which presented him to the world.
 
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