NEWS: Navy approves first ever Satanist

Chris Cranmer, 24 has been officially recognised as the first registered Satanist. The naval technician will now be allowed to practice Satanic rituals on board the vessel approved by the captain of HMS Cumberland, and is now lobbying the Ministry of Defence to make Satanism a registered religion.



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I don�t actually see a problem with this as long as he doesn�t in any way harm the ship or its crewmembers or stop them from doing their job.

The guy that runs the local head shop was the second Wiccan approved by the Army; it didn't seem like he or his predecessor encountered any real resistance, it simply hadn't been done before.

Anyway, LaVeyan 'satanists' are relatively harmless critters that follow a sort of ur-religion named only for sensational value... they don't beleive in God or satan at all.

here's the thing. satan is the symbol of pure evil. anymore consideration than this is confuscation.
anton levy may have just glommed onto the biblical name for sensationalism, but we are talking about setting a precedent of allowing the navy to be viewed as a sanctuary for the father of darkness. beliefs aside, this just doesn't look good. maybe we ARE 'the great satan'.
surely, the fundamentalists can point and laugh and say, 'i told you so', now.

While I agree that this sets something of a sensitive precedent, I have to say that it was the only constitutional thing to do. The law makes no distinctions on grounds of metaphysical morals, and if that guy wants to go get torpedoed, more power to him