One of the Pitfalls of Casting Yourself as a Hero

In life, we all have to create a story to describe what we do, and why we do it. This imaginative act is required for motivation and meaning in life. Casting yourself as a hero can be a very profound experience, but we should take a lesson from Quixote.

Most of us have forgotten about the Satanism scare of the 1980's which continues to influence fundamentalist Christianity, weaving in global conspiracies and Black Masses. Mike Warnke gained a following by claiming to ex-Satanist high priest, converted to evangelical Christianity.

In Selling Satan: The Evangelical Media and the Mike Warnke Scandal, Mike Hertenstein and Jon Trott write about Warnke's audience ignoring:

... the nature of evil as a banal mystery, profoundly meaningless ... Instead it was a grand chess game with Christian and Satanist scooting about the board, a cartoon version of the demonic which left actual evil, a personal as well as corporate matter, virtually untouched.

Via Slacktivist