https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd37E_AeoCE
#Behemoth's #TheSatanist is Loudwire's pick for the #MetalAlbumoftheDecade. @grahamwire traveled to Poland to spend a day with #Nergal, discussing the musici

https://loudwire.com/behemoth-the-satanist-anniversary/
THE SATANIST OF WARSAW: Blasphemy, Cancer & Behemoth. The Biggest Albums Turning 10 in 2024. They might still feel pretty new, but these albums are all going to be a decade old in 2014.

https://loudwire.com/behemoth-the-satanist-metal-album-of-the-decade-documentary/
Nergal recaps his blasphemy trials, battling cancer and more. Nergal recaps his blasphemy trials, battling cancer and more. ... Watch our full documentary feature, The Satanist of Warsaw, with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behemoth_(band)
Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991.They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground. Until the late 1990s, the band played a traditional black metal style with secular lyrical content, but soon changed to that of occult and thelemic themes written by their lead vocalist Nergal and Krzysztof Azarewicz.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/satanist-beliefs-death-afterlife
In fact, a 2011 study on Satanists' views of death even suggested that Satanists believe that the deceased, assuming they lived their lives to the fullest, can live on in the memories of those

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Darski
Career Nergal performing at Hellfest 2010. Nergal was born Adam Michał Darski in Gdynia, raised Catholic, and started playing guitar at age eight. He goes by the stage name Nergal (naming himself after a Babylonian deity), and he is the founder, lyricist, main composer, frontman and manager of the band Behemoth, which he started when he was still a teenager.

https://www.faithwire.com/2022/09/07/satanists-keep-dominating-headlines-what-do-they-believe-do-they-really-worship-the-devil-an-explainer/
So, The Satanic Temple doesn't believe in Satan as a real-life being (the Bible, of course, affirms his existence and role in our world). The organization goes on to say it believes "undue suffering is bad" and sees "blasphemy" as a "legitimate expression of personal independence from counter-productive traditional norms," among

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interviews/satanist-rocker-took-cancel-culture-catholic-church-cancer/
The Satanist rocker who took on cancel culture, the Catholic church and cancer - and won ... It went to a Warsaw court, which found him guilty based on complaints from four individuals, and he

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-satanism-music-20180105-story.html
Zachary and Alexandra James of Twin Temple, are a self-described "Satanic Doo-Wop" group and active Satanists. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times ) By August Brown . Jan. 5, 2018 8 AM PT .

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65549975
The Satanic Temple is recognised as a religion by the US government, and has ministers and congregations in America, Europe and Australia. More than 830 people snapped up tickets for its late

https://www.wpr.org/religion/not-so-subtle-subversiveness-satan-worship
Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams in all of their guises. Satan represents undefined wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning

https://theweek.com/99921/why-was-the-satanic-verses-so-controversial
Although the motive for the attack is not yet known, Rushdie has been a marked man since the publication of his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses. His depiction of the prophet Mohammed "made him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses_controversy
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.It centered on the novel's references to the Satanic Verses (apocryphal verses of the Quran), and came to include a larger debate about censorship and religious violence. It included numerous killings, attempted killings (including

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-salman-rushdie/satanic-verses-to-be-born-again-first-you-have-to-die/C794DF0F07EF246E4D65997BF29B253B
The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie - August 2007. The publication of Salman Rushdie's fourth novel The Satanic Verses in September 1988 released an unforeseen process of reaction and protest against and for the novel and its author. The protests against the book concentrated on the issue of alleged blasphemy against Islam while those defending it argued for freedom of expression.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30212999
These men brought home to Byron the war against blasphemy with their accu- sations of his own satanic irreligion-his "Manicheism" and "audacious. impiety." Thus Byron's play and its satanic figure display complex fil-. iations with a specific cultural and political situation; the blasphemy.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012:22-32&version=ESV
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit. 22 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?" 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/1989/04/08/vantage-point-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-243554
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie appears destined to be one of the most controversial and certainly the most publicized novels in history. The controversy surrounding the novel is a paradigm

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/literature/rushdiet.html
1988. The 1988 publication of The Satanic Verses in Britain unleashes a firestorm of worldwide protest from Islamic fundamentalists. They assert that the hallucinatory comic fable by Anglo-Indian

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Satanic-Verses
The Satanic Verses is a magic realist epic novel by Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie that upon its publication in 1988 became one of the most controversial books of the late 20th century. Its fanciful and satiric use of Islam struck some Muslims as blasphemous, and Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against it in 1989.

https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/explaining-the-controversy-around-satanic-verses-the-book-that-led-to-the-fatwa-against-author-salman-rushdie/articleshow/93530298.cms
The Satanic Verses were withdrawn on the grounds that the devil had sent them to trick Muhammad into thinking they came from God, and devout Muslims deny that these verses ever existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie.First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses about three pagan

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-exorcism-review-russell-crowe-1236042587/#!
Crowe stars in his second exorcist film in a year. His acting isn't bad, but by the end the message seems to be: The power of residuals compels you.

https://www.grunge.com/989826/the-untold-truth-of-salman-rushdies-the-satanic-verses/
As Ohio State University's Sean W. Anthony explains in the Shii Studies Review, the phrase "the satanic verses" was coined by the 19th-century Scottish orientalist Sir William Muir.It was intended to denote a certain set of writings concerning the life of The Prophet Muhammad that were once considered canonical in the story of his life and central to the Muslim faith, but were rejected on