An Air Force Vet Files a Complaint Over a Supervisor's 'Not Today, Satan' Sign. Proving They Don't Make Satan Worshipers Like They Used To.
This might be an unpopular opinion in 2024, but I'm just gonna let it fly and let the chips fall where they may: I'm not a fan of Satan, or his worshipers.
Now that might get me in trouble in some parts. Maybe even around here. Maybe we have some policy saying that Satanists buy t-shirts too. Like that old, not particularly funny street joke about the guy on his deathbed who gets asked, "Do you reject Satan and all his works?" And he thinks about it a minute or two before he replies, "At this point, it's best not to make any enemies." But consequences be damned, because I don't want to be.
Sure, the Prince of Darkness might seem sort of edgy and cool when Al Pacino is chewing the scenery. Or if you're into Black Sabbath. Or when he takes the form of Ned Flanders to trade a donut for Homer Simpson's soul. Or when he's going down to Georgia to challenge a country boy to a fiddle contest. Or if you're just a rebellious teen trying to get a rise out of your parents. But I'm not a fan. Make of that what you will. I apologize for nothing.
But even I have to admit there was a time when Beelzebub's followers, demented though they were, at least stood for something. Whether they were trying to become Vampires in Eastern Europe, performing blood rituals in the primeval forests of 17th century New England or sitting in the middle of a pentagram by candlelight asking for wealth and eternal youth, they had definable goals, if nothing else.
Now look at them. Oh, how the not-so-mighty have fallen. All they seem to do is whine about how they deserve a statue of the Prince of Darkness next to the Christmas and Hanukah displays on public land, and that's about it. They're just a collection of sad, pathetic loners. Even - and who could've seen this coming 400 years ago - just a bunch of pussies now. Consider this latest incident:
Source - A Satanist Veterans Affairs staffer filed a civil rights complaint over their supervisor’s joke sign reading, “Not today, Satan, not today” — claiming it was a “grotesque Christian supremacist” symbol.
The unidentified Air Force veteran — who “subscribes to many non-theist teachings (including Satanist)” — had the case taken up by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, whose founder agreed to file a formal complaint. ...
It was placed “in such a way that it was physically directed at anyone sitting in the guest chair across from her desk,” the offended staffer wrote in an email to the civil rights group.
The employee then sent a “passionate and deeply emotional email to my supervisor describing my feelings towards her." ...
Upper management is now also considering “bringing in more cultural sensitivity awareness training, moving me to a new supervisor and sending an apology email to my entire team,” the Satanist vet said in a thank you email to the group.
What the fuck happened to you deranged, misguided weirdos? Where's the guts? Pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it's pretty clear from this mealy-mouthed, bitchy email you're not guilty of THAT one. If you were, you'd have gone for a curse or turned your supervisor into a witch. You'd have come at her Old School Salem-style. Not run off and complained to the pencil pushers at some mamby-pamby rights group like a squish.
How did someone so soft ever get accepted into the United States Air Force? You enlist to maybe fly combat missions over some hot zone on the other side of the world, but you get triggered by a cute sign on someone's desk? Maybe the Father of Lies has his sulphur-stained hands full with wars and helping Roger Goodell's career. But he's really scraping the bottom of the recruitment barrel with this current crop. Someone in Hell's HR Department deserves to get thrown into the pits over this.
But it does prove something CS Lewis quotes at the beginning of The Screwtape Letters is 100% accurate:
"The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked." - Thomas More