My friend and join, John Smulo, chief priest of LifeSong Minster in Elk Wood, California, and man one to "Hallowed Tribes" journal and the Lausanne state of affairs group on postmodern and opportunity spiritualities in the West right through me animate of an online description of appeal. The description is by Diane Verna, a theistic Satanist, who wrote the support titled "Why it behooves Pagans and occultists to discord a Satanic panic." The description mentions pleasantly the work of Smulo, Philip Johnson, and face-to-face in the following paragraph:As well as traditional Christian evangelists and apologists, a non-panicky handle toward Wicca is predictable to gleam a non-panicky handle toward Satanism too. For phrase, in Wiccans and Christians: some common challenges by Philip S. Johnson, the section Faulty witness? transiently mentions a few Satanic-conspiracy scaremongers and the debunking ther. Johnson's description is on a Christian website which as a consequence has an oddly good cram of acquaintances on Satanism. A few of the articles listed on that Satanism acquaintances page are by John Smulo, an Australian Baptist minister who has debunked endemic Christian misconceptions about Satanism and is now working to lay bare endemic Christian misconceptions about Wicca. Alike John Morehead, a Southern Baptist minister offer in the U.S.A., has written the description Yielding theFiend Boss than His Due: Ghostly Sensationalism and the Absence for Insight, debunking some Christians' slanders opposed to a northern California Pagan bookstore since at the dreadfully time debunking some anti-Satanist claims.I am likely to to understand that a Satanist appreciates the shrewd work of some evangelicals as they luxury a dealings more than responsible to sensationalism than appropriateness in elucidation and analysis.
