OK, this is what the atheists get for being funny or ironic or whatever. How was this kid to know that the Church of Satan was actually an atheist front? Their church is named after the “father of lies,” a “murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44) and evil personified, how was the kid to know that they would turn him in for an action that would have been acceptable to the evil one?
A teenager was arrested after a leader of the Church of Satan turned over to the FBI an e-mail the high school student had written to the sect in which he threatened to kill his grandparents, authorities said.
Andrew Culver, 18, told police the e-mail detailing his intention to kill his grandparents and steal their money and car was a joke, said Bazetta Township Police Chief Charles Sayers.
According to police, Culver wrote he had access to an arsenal of weapons and wanted to “kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan.”
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Gilmore said members of his group are atheists who believe Satan is a symbol of freedom, not evil. “To the Satanist, he is his own God,” reads a statement on the group’s Web site from Gilmore.
If they only knew how right they are.