Invocation: The Satanic Temple West Florida for Pensacola City Council 7.14.2016

The First Amendment doctrine of the separation of state and church precludes government favoring one religion over another, or favoring religion over no religion.  As long as city councils decide to open their meetings with prayer, they have to allow equal time to non-Christian prayers.  Here is one example of a Satanic prayer offered in Pensacola.

It is worth noting that members of the Satanic Temple do not believe Satan or any other supernatural beings exist.  Then ending words -- "Hail Satan" -- are for shock value alone.

Now, would you rather have this, or no prayer at all?

The Satanic Temple practitioner states:
This is a pre-recorded version of TSTWF's invocation for the PCC. The original TST text (below) is sung to Malotte's famous & beautiful setting of the Lord's Prayer. This adaptation is by Davidas. I hope you enjoyed it. Ave Satanas!

Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines borne 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. 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 only to that which is demonstrably true, Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of One or All. 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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