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Will Sommer
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Michael Flynn has embraced his profitable role as a QAnon star. But now QAnon has turned on him, accusing him of being a Satanist agent after he led a church congregation in what they say is a Satanic prayer borrowed from a nuclear doomsday cult.
Michael Flynn to QAnon Believers: Im Not a Satanist!
Michael Flynn is finding out the hard way that surrounding himself with QAnon followers can have a pretty sharp downside.
thedailybeast.com
7:03 AM · Oct 8, 2021
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-to-qanon-believers-im-not-a-satanist?ref=home
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Flynns trouble started on Sept. 17, when he led a congregation at Nebraska pastor Hank Kunnemans Lord of Hosts Church in prayer. Flynns prayer included invocations to sevenfold rays and legions, two phrases that struck some of Flynns followers as strange.
We are your instrument of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, all of them, Flynn said, later adding, We will be the instrument of your will, whatever it is. In your name, and in the name of your legions, we are freeborn, and we shall remain freeborn, and we shall not be enslaved by any foe.
As video of the prayer circulated in online conspiracy theorist groups, the references to legions and rays soon sparked speculation among Flynns right-wing supporters that their hero had been lured to the dark side. Always on the lookout for the Satanic influence they imagine lurks at the heart of the world, they claimed that Flynn had secretly been worshiping the devil. Worse, since the congregation was repeating the prayer after Flynn, the rumor went, he had duped hundreds of Christians into joining the ritual.
A lot of people in the Christian world believe that when you pray to rays of light and legions that youre praying to the devil, Oebel, the YouTube host, explained
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gab13by13
(21,322 posts)hasn't at one time or another had to refute being a satanist?
Silent3
(15,210 posts)Do you think it's the pulsating red glow from the ancient runic symbols tattooed all over my face?
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Jirel
(2,018 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)He's definitely evil, just like the guy who pardoned him. The Trump movement is about deceiving the RW Christian world in the service of the Dark Lord. Spread it around. Make them deny it.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Just asking questions here!
Haggard Celine
(16,844 posts)I was more acquainted with them as Gadarenes, but they're also known as Gerasenes or Gergasenes. The thought of the legion of demons in the crazy man in the graveyard did cross my mind when I wrote that post, but now that you mention it, I have to wonder if Flynn, Trump, and others are part of the original herd of swine that received the demons. Trump especially reminds me of a hog. Maybe these Trump people are the same herd Jesus encountered in Gadara and are constantly being reborn to cause havoc. That's at least as plausible as some of the shit I hear from Dominionist Christianity.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)just an amoral pig who doesn't believe in the things Christ taught.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)I don't necessarily equate Theosophism or Satanism with evil, but I bet Flynn does.
He is intentionally invoking what he believes are the forces of darkness.
And he is leading people down a dark path.
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)Satanist? - Some people say. - That's good enough.
Get behind me, Satan... and PUSH!