{"id":72,"date":"2008-03-18T17:03:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/la-france-et-le-satanisme-72.htm"},"modified":"2008-03-18T17:03:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T23:03:31","slug":"la-france-et-le-satanisme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/la-france-et-le-satanisme-72.htm","title":{"rendered":"La France et le satanisme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">European governments keep a close eye on cults. The German government has kept a wary eye on Scientology. With more reason, the French government is keeping an eye on Satanism.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2008\/03\/17\/polemique-sur-l-importance-du-satanisme-en-france_1024072_3224.html#ens_id=1024176\">Le Monde<\/a> reports that the \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Mission interminist\u00e9rielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les d\u00e9rives sectaires\u201d (The interministerial mission of vigilance and combat against<span>\u00a0 <\/span>sectarian deviances) estimates that there are 25,000 Satanists in France, of whom 80% are under 21 years of age.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">In 2007 there were 92 cases of Satanist profanation of cemeteries, a 300% increase in three years. Also increasing are \u201csuicides among the young, deviant conduct (self-scarring), incitation to racial hatred, and barbaric acts, notably against animals.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/p>\n<p>Secularists are skeptical, and think that the government is alarmist; the alarmists classify black metal (heavy metal?) fans and Goths as Satanists, when all they are is adolescent rebels. The profanations of churches and cemeteries are, according to the secularist critics the work of neonazis and other sociopaths.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/p>\n<p>The U. S. had its Satanist alarms in the 1980s. At the extreme fringes of sexual abuse among priests are reports of Satanism. A priest who wanted tone as transgressive as possible would, like the priest in Huysmans, would tend to use Satanic references. He would use them in the same spirit as the French adolescent rebels. But it is dangerous to call on the evil spirits. They may come.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-72\" data-postid=\"72\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-72 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European governments keep a close eye on cults. The German government has kept a wary eye on Scientology. With more reason, the French government is keeping an eye on Satanism.\u00a0 Le Monde reports that the \u201cMission interminist\u00e9rielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les d\u00e9rives sectaires\u201d (The interministerial mission of vigilance and combat against\u00a0 sectarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50],"tags":[1126,81],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy-sex-abuse","category-france","tag-france","tag-satanism","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}