Satan Is So Hot Right Now

Los Angeles hosted the Grammys this week. They featured a star-studded cavalcade of singers who can’t sing, songsters who require a team of dozens to write their songs, and dancers who can’t dance. They also featured a full-on Satanic ritual onstage, starring used-to-be-just-a-gay-dude-then-genderqueer-now-gender-nonbinary singer Sam Smith and transgender female (translation: biological male) Kim Petras. Their song “Unholy,” They won Best Pop Group/Group Performance. Their performance in which Smith wore a Satan costume and top hat with ears while Petras danced in a cage surrounded Satan-costumed women made headlines because of its transgressive imagery.

The goal is to provoke people with a traditional religious bent and draw a response. “Why can’t you just leave us alone?” Our cultural elites demand our attention.

We’re all supposed to be shocked, of course. That’s the point.

However, the real shock should come from the fact the performance is so routine. Major corporations sponsored Grammys. Shadow president of the United States and the world’s greatest physician Dr. Jill Biden showed up to present an award. CBS also tweeted in anticipation of this Satanic routine “We are ready to worship!”

The truth is, Satan is in right now.

After all, Satan’s message has become our society’s: personal “authenticity” It is necessary to destroy all traditional mores, and to trash all intermediate institutions of Western civilisation. To be “free” Living without boundaries or rules means to be free from all limitations. And our truest heroes are those who say, as John Milton’s Satan did, “better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” 

Milton understood his Satan as a villain who rejected the Good, True, Beautiful in favor for personal power. We have instead followed Percy Shelley’s path, a dissolute romantic poet who argued. “Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture.” Sure, Milton’s Devil provided no good to anyone, including himself – but he stood up to the strictures of an outside, objective moral code. Shelley was the one who said that “religion and morality, as they now stand, compose a practical code of misery and servitude: the genius of human happiness must tear every leaf from the accursed book of God ere man can read the inscription on his heart.”

How much are Shelley’s musings different from those of Smith and Petras, who have more sophisticated musings? Smith said, “It really is just about how I feel.” Or Petras: “it’s a take on not being able to choose religion. And not being able to live the way that people might want you to live … I was kind of hellkeeper Kim.”

God has specific requirements for us. God suggests that there is an higher Truth to which all of us are subject. He also gives rules and roles to be obeyed for our personal fulfillment, social strength, spiritual durability and personal fulfillment. Satan does not demand that we give up our reason, higher aspirations, or our souls. Milton’s Satan rebelled against God. Today, Godly individuals are more likely to rebel against the truly dominant spiritual power a narcissistic society that values self above all.