A Satanic invocation kicked off a local assembly meeting in an Alaskan borough last week, sparking debate about whether the assembly should do away with its tradition of opening meetings with prayer.
According to the Alaska Dispatch News, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting last Tuesday was opened up with a prayer from local resident Iris Fontana, a member of a local Satanic Temple.
Although Iris proclaimed "Hail Satan" at the end of her invocation, her invocation appeared to be mostly a call for people to turn against their religious beliefs and embrace agnosticism.
"Let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old," Fontana said. "Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations. Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast to which is only demonstrably true."
"Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of all or one," she continued. "That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan."
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Alaska Assembly Meeting Begins With Prayer to Lucifer: 'Hail Satan'Comment:
I am going to highlight some contradictions and inconsistencies in her prayer. First prayer to Satan, who is if she is to be consistently and agnostic is nothing but hypocrisy. If you don't believe there is a God, you can't borrow God's adversary for your cause. Standing firm against all arbitrary authority is an invitation I would be careful to extend, since all human authority is arbitrary without God. Without God as a moral lawgiver there is no one who has the authority to claim that we should do anything because they say so, or because they have decided it is right. On whose authority do we decide that one action is worse than the other? Her inconsistency and her appeal to Lucifer as an authority and a role model shows that man can't fill the vacuum that is left if we remove God. All social norms are nothing but arbitrary if there is no God. Her belief becomes a religious one by appealing to Lucifer as an example of correct behavior. 
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