A pastor stood up against a former city council member who hailed satan, calling on the “dark father,” during the opening prayer for the Ottumwa, Iowa, city council meeting Tuesday.
\n\nMatthew Dalbey, a former city council member, delivered the opening “prayer” to the “dark father,” urging listeners to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge, and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.”
\n\n“Dear dark father, let us stand now, unbowed and unfed 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,” he said.
\n\n“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,” he continued, articulating the self-centric doctrines of satanism.
\n\nMatthew Dalbey, a former city council member, delivered the opening “prayer” to the “dark father,” urging listeners to “embrace the Luciferian…
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