I can't wait to hear their theme song! I'm assuming they all sing in different keys at not quite the same time, with an occasional syncopating gasp, as one of them dies suddenly. Since they're mostly just grumpy Christians, nostalgically reworking the rituals from their over-regretted youths into something they hope is edgier and hipper than what it was modeled on, maybe they could just take one of the unfondly remembered hymns so cruelly forced on them at such a tender age and turn it into a toe-tapping ditty for their favorite fallen archangel. OK, that's a fun idea — excuse me as I go look for the most hackneyed hymns malingering around from any one of the times in the last century that Christian revival tents were all the rage across the US.
Oh my, there were some truly dreadful songs! Something clearly went very wrong in Western Christianity in the 1960's! I'm no longer sure I can actually blame these people for looking to satan to rescue them from that kind of torturous drivel.
I think my personal nomination for satanic-temple-club theme-song would have to be that unforgettable blast from the past by the one hit wonder Friar Peter Scholtes. Yes, all you hep cats who answered "They'll Know We Are Christians by our Love", you're really keeping up on your ecclesiastical trivia, aren't you? And what says satan better than that liturgical classic? Any satanic-temple members who have never managed to expunge that particular earworm from their memory banks will only have to learn a few new words to have a ready-made dark-lord chant up and running for all their public cursings:
We are one in the [mandates]. We are one in the [dark] lord. We are one in the [mandates]. We are one in the [dark] lord. And we pray that all [conformity] may one day be restored. And they'll know we are [satanists] by our [blood], by our [blood]. Yes, they'll know we are [satanists] by our [blood].
We will walk [on] each other. We will walk [jab] in hand. We will walk [on] each other. We will walk [jab] in hand. And together we'll spread the news that [death] is in our land. And they'll know we are [satanists] by our [blood], by our [blood]. Yes, they'll know we are [satanists] by [the clots in] our [blood].
OK, for anyone who found themselves unexpectedly inspired by that heartfelt rendition and for some unknown reason wants more, there are in fact two more scintillating verses to the original, so by all means unleash your muse and have at it!
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Oh my, there were some truly dreadful songs! Something clearly went very wrong in Western Christianity in the 1960's! I'm no longer sure I can actually blame these people for looking to satan to rescue them from that kind of torturous drivel.
I think my personal nomination for satanic-temple-club theme-song would have to be that unforgettable blast from the past by the one hit wonder Friar Peter Scholtes. Yes, all you hep cats who answered "They'll Know We Are Christians by our Love", you're really keeping up on your ecclesiastical trivia, aren't you? And what says satan better than that liturgical classic? Any satanic-temple members who have never managed to expunge that particular earworm from their memory banks will only have to learn a few new words to have a ready-made dark-lord chant up and running for all their public cursings:
We are one in the [mandates]. We are one in the [dark] lord.
We are one in the [mandates]. We are one in the [dark] lord.
And we pray that all [conformity] may one day be restored.
And they'll know we are [satanists] by our [blood], by our [blood].
Yes, they'll know we are [satanists] by our [blood].
We will walk [on] each other. We will walk [jab] in hand.
We will walk [on] each other. We will walk [jab] in hand.
And together we'll spread the news that [death] is in our land.
And they'll know we are [satanists] by our [blood], by our [blood].
Yes, they'll know we are [satanists] by [the clots in] our [blood].
OK, for anyone who found themselves unexpectedly inspired by that heartfelt rendition and for some unknown reason wants more, there are in fact two more scintillating verses to the original, so by all means unleash your muse and have at it!
— Christophe