{"id":4719,"date":"2014-05-11T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:17:12","slug":"praying-to-satan-at-town-hall-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/praying-to-satan-at-town-hall-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying to Satan at Town Hall Meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storytitle\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What is our nation coming to?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>What these Satan worshipers in blindness\u00a0fail to comprehend is that were it not for the biblical revelation, they would neither know Satan&#8217;s name, nor about him. This fact in itself shows the superiority of the Bible and Elohim over Satan, for without\u00a0the biblical record, Satan has lacked the power to make his name known to mankind.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If this were to happen in my town, I&#8217;d be on the front lines protesting. I&#8217;ve done it before, and I&#8217;d do it again, so help my YHVH! Every time I have protested against wickedness in a public forum, YHVH has put the words in my mouth to say as Yeshua promised in Matthew 10:19\u201320. Furthermore, each time, he has supernaturally megaphoned my words of warning and rebuke far and wide to a much broader audience through the local media through no effort of mine \u2014 to his glory.<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s not forget the words of the psalmist in Ps 94:16\u201317,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Unless\u00a0YHVH\u00a0had been my help, My soul would soon have settled in silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Natan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida Rabble-Rouser Seeks To Open Civic Meeting With Satanist Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-meta\">\n<div id=\"storybyline\" class=\"  linkLocation\">\n<div id=\"res311300889\" class=\"bucketwrap byline\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"color: #666666;\">by\u00a0EYDER PERALTA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dateblock\" style=\"color: #666666;\"><time datetime=\"2014-05-10\"><span class=\"date\">May 10, 2014<\/span><span class=\"time\">\u00a03:28 PM ET<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"storytext\" class=\"storytext storylocation linkLocation\">\n<div id=\"res311379697\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\" style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<div class=\"captionwrap\" style=\"color: #999999;\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p style=\"color: #808080;\">Chaz Stevens talks with reporters after setting up his Festivus pole made out of beer cans at the Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee, Fla., in December of 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"creditwrap\" style=\"font-style: italic; color: #999999;\"><span class=\"credit\">Brendan Farrington<\/span>\/<span class=\"rightsnotice\">AP<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">A Florida rabble-rouser wants the city of Deerfield Beach to allow him to say a satanist prayer at the beginning of a council meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Of course, Chaz Stevens&#8217; request comes after the Supreme Court ruled that sectarian prayer before a government meeting\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4774cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/05\/05\/309752095\/prayers-before-town-hall-meetings-are-constitutional-high-court-finds\">does not necessarily violate the Constitution&#8217;s Establishment Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Stevens has a history of exploring the separation of church and state in dramatic fashion: In December of 2013, for example, he was\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4774cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.browardpalmbeach.com\/pulp\/2013\/12\/festivus_pole_in_florida_capit.php\">allowed to set up a Festivus pole<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 made of empty beer cans \u2014 in the rotunda of the Florida state Capitol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">In a short phone interview, Stevens tells us he had just recently converted to Satanism. It was the first time, he says, that he had committed to any god.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">To continue reading, go to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/05\/10\/311300886\/florida-rabble-rouser-seeks-to-open-civic-meeting-with-satanist-prayer\">www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/05\/10\/311300886\/florida-rabble-rouser-seeks-to-open-civic-meeting-with-satanist-prayer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Praying to Satan at Town Hall Meetings?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/11\/praying-to-satan-at-town-hall-meetings\/',contentID: 'post-4719',suggestTags: '',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is our nation coming to? 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