{"id":72001,"date":"2016-06-07T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=72001"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:38:04","slug":"christians-confront-satanists-in-lancaster-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/06\/07\/christians-confront-satanists-in-lancaster-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians confront Satanists in Lancaster [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Tpv8_EjRp4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LANCASTER &#8211; Members of The Satanic Temple of Los Angeles were in Lancaster Monday afternoon to perform an introductory ritual and to present city officials with the \u201cThe Seven Tenets,\u201d which reflect the core beliefs of The Satanic Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About three dozen Satanists arrived around 3:30 p.m. to Lancaster City Hall. But the group was confronted outside \u00a0by more than 100 local Christians who waved signs, quoted scriptures over\u00a0a bullhorn, sang hymns and called on the Satanists to \u201crepent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe aren\u2019t going to allow Satan to take control of our city and that\u2019s why we\u2019re here,\u201d said Associate Pastor Joe Avalos of Victory Outreach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Satanists responded to the Christian protest with chants of \u201cHail Satan!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mission of The Satanic Temple is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, according to the organization\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former U.S. Marine Sergeant Steve Hill is The Satanic Temple\u2019s first political candidate who has openly acknowledged affiliation. The Antelope Valley resident is running as a Democrat for the California State Senate District 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This video appears to have audio playback issues on some mobile devices. Playing the video through a headset or earbuds plugged into your mobile device solves the audio issue.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; Members of The Satanic Temple of Los Angeles were in Lancaster Monday afternoon to perform an introductory ritual and to present city officials with the \u201cThe Seven Tenets,\u201d which reflect the core beliefs of The Satanic Temple. About three dozen Satanists arrived around 3:30 p.m. to Lancaster City Hall. But the group was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":72002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}