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Lucifer Rising: A Book of Sin, Devil Worship and Rock'n'Roll

by Gavin Baddeley

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Josh said: " Although the back cover boasts with glaring irony that Baddeley is a superbly "unopinionated, thorough, and willing to address and evaluate... all sides..." - while then subsequently pointing out that he is also an ordained "minister" in Anton La Vey Although the back cover boasts with glaring irony that Baddeley is a superbly "unopinionated, thorough, and willing to address and evaluate... all sides..." - while then subsequently pointing out that he is also an ordained "minister" in Anton La Vey's Church of Satan, so far this has been an extremely interesting book. If you can stomach chapter one which seems mostly devoted to railing an assault on Christianity - a tactic I found not only personally offensive but also even more ironic than the point above - the information becomes genuinely interesting. A somewhat revealing insight into the background of Aleister Crowley, as well as the Nazi's of the Third Reich is included early on which from Baddeley's POV were not what I expected.

Though Baddeley is obviously a staunch supporter (not unopinionated whatsoever) of paganism, hedonism, or whatever other label you could use to describe the annals of the broad concept of "Satanism", this undoubtedly gives him a unique insight into the influence that what I'll call "evil" has had on our modern pop culture. Given the extremely controversial / taboo nature of this subject one interested in plain matter-of-fact information is left with not so many options - Fundamentalist Christians will undoubtedly claim that every form of music other than church hymns and praise music is rooted in direct worship of Satan - Satan as Christians know him to be the actual personage of the Devil, an angel cast out of heaven. Satanists on the other hand will go so far as to claim that even church hymns are "satanic" in that most of their composers were caught up in the enlightenment - in that "Satanism" is NOT a direct worship of any sort of metaphysical or supernatural entity or deity at all.... For someone who just wants simple answers as to what does Ozzy Osbourne ACTUALLY do in his off time, or does KISS sacrifice goats backstage, it can be tough to sift through the nonsense...

Either way - an interesting, if not infused with many grains of salt, read. ...more "

Sep 04, 2010 01:14PM · see review