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Title: Murder Spotlights Rise In Satanism
Rense.com
- Murder Spotlights Rise In
Satanism
By David Crossland
2-1-2
- BOCHUM, Germany (Reuters)
- A bizarre murder by two Devil worshippers has highlighted a rise in
Satanism
in Germany, where one expert estimates there are up to 7,000 followers,
many of them also adhering to Nazi ideology.
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- Daniel and Manuela Ruda, a married couple who were being
sentenced on Thursday, confessed to killing a friend with a hammer and
66 knife stabs last July, saying the Devil had ordered them to kill.
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- Both have severe psychological disorders, psychiatrists
told the court in the western town of Bochum.
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- Accounts of Manuela's bloodsucking habit and the ritual
in which she and her husband killed their victim -- carving a pentagram,
the sign of the devil, into his chest and leaving a scalpel protruding
from his stomach -- have fascinated Germany and focused attention on
Satanism.
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- "If you study Internet chat pages you can see that
the Rudas enjoy cult status with kids," said Ingolf Christiansen,
author of a book on Satanism and commissioner for ideological issues at
the Lutheran Protestant Church in Hanover.
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- Christiansen said Satanism was more widespread in Britain
and the United States than in Germany, where he estimates there are between
3,000 and 7,000 followers.
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- "That's a conservative estimate. I see a rising
tendency. The Internet is helping to spread it. It is driven by increasing
brutalization in all areas and a corresponding loss of values."
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- Satanism -- which has no official structure and means
different things to different people -- typically involves worshipping
Satan, the Devil, and a travesty of Christian practices and symbols.
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- Many adherents see it as a form of social Darwinism
rejecting
religious norms and promoting the right of the strong to dominate the
weak.
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- Its practice often involves ceremonies with sex and
sacrifice
to tap dark primal forces. Most Satanists reject moral codes, saying an
individual must determine what is good or bad.
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- Modern forms of Satanism draw on a host of traditions,
from ancient Egyptian mythology to Celtic cults and Haitian Voodoo.
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