A convention of Satanists slated to begin Friday in Boston will be met with prayer, not protests, from Catholics and evangelicals, spokespersons for the religious communities say.
About 800 supporters of The Satanic Temple are due to converge on the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotel for three days of presentations such as “Hellbillies: Visible Satanism in Rural America,” “Deconstructing Your Religious Upbringing” and “Pandemonium! 5,000 Years of Satanic Culture.”to The Washington Times, officials of The Satanic Temple have insisted that they are not “theistic” and do not believe in a “literal” Satan, rather viewing the biblical figure as “a literary metaphor.
“They didn’t call themselves ‘SatanCon’ for nothing,” said Terry Donilon, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston. “We’ve dealt with them in the past, because they’ve got their temple up in Salem, where we have a shrine to Pope Saint John Paul the Second.” “[W]e ask you to not organize or encourage any of your parishioners to go to the event to protest. It will only fuel the hate of those who support it and feed the media with images,” Bishop O’Connell said in a letter to local parishes. “Rather than protesting in person, we hope to storm the Heavens with prayer.”
Kris Kubal, chief program officer at Intercessors for America, an evangelical prayer group, said many of their 500,000 volunteers will pray for a religious change among the SatanCon attendees, and not for God to punish them.
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