The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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phenomenon right now is exploding. It’s not just a bunch of malarkey,”
he added. Detective James Bradley, a consultant on satanic cults for
U.S. police forces told the same conference, “You’re hearing it from
hundreds of hundreds of kids, you’re hearing it from juvenile workers’
social workers, teachers and psychiatrists.” Bradley said that sexual
abuse of children is one of the “purest forms” of satanic sacrifices.
Unfortunately society is reluctant to deal with many of these
allegations.
Today, ordinary people are afraid that others may think that they
are “religious!” In a completely secularized society, everyone’s rights
are protected except the right of the religious. Yale University professor
Stephen Carter calls this “the culture of disbelief, the oppressive
assumption that no one of any learning or sophistication could possibly
be a religious believer.” Carter notes, for example, that one is allowed
to have any view on abortion so long as it derives from ethical or
practical or sociological or medical considerations. But should
someone stand up and oppose abortion for reasons of faith, he is
accused of trying to impose his religious beliefs on others!
Churches today are more like entertainment outlets than houses of
prayer. I am sure that you heard about drive-in communion and
confession on the Net. But this next piece of information is the
ultimate! In an article in the New York Time Magazine dated June 22,
1997 and titled, “Raving My Religion,” we are given a picture of the
latest trend in church services.
The article describes the “Techno Cosmic Mass,” created by
Matthew Fox, a former Dominican Priest from California. Fox started
holding his own rave-inspired masses, drawing young and old alike. In
a mass called “Gaia Our Mother,” this is what happened. The crowd
enters, ethereal music is playing as slides of mountains, clouds and
women flash on the four walls above makeshift altars to fire, water,
earth and air. While worshipers sit in concentric circles around a
central altar, a young rapper leaps on stage to sing about the “Big
Bang!” Then Fox exhorts the group to “cry out to the mother with real
feeling and grief.” As voices rise in a collective wail of “Ma!” the walls
flash with graphics of screaming women.
Pressing palm to palm, the audience sways as Fox administers the
Eucharist: chunks of whole wheat bread, served with wine or grape
juice. Finally, the speakers blast house music and worshipers dance