Madelaine Petsch: SatanCon — Satanists were nice but Police had to be called on the Christian protesters outside because Protestants showed up and were squabbling with the Catholics

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The Satanic Temple had their inaugural SatanCon. The hotel staff said all attendees were nice. However, police had to be called on the Christian protesters outside because Protestants showed up and were squabbling with the Catholics. This is the perfect microcosm for needing church/state separation

SatanCon 0: The truth laid bare

SatanCon 0 was a historic event.
Inside the hotel grounds and convention, everything was entirely pleasant and jovial. Many of the attendees were reuniting with good friends they hadn’t seen in almost a decade. Others had been online friends for years but were just meeting in person for the first time.

SatanCon was wholesome

The protesters were gathered mostly along the northern wall of the parking lot. Which, for three consecutive days, became a physical representation of the wall between church and state. If you think water into wine is a neat trick you’ve got to be impressed by that. That wall deserves a plaque someday.
There was a concrete stairwell that Mercy, Szandora, and Viktor had found where you could hang out on the landing and peek your head over the cutout window. The protesters had banners and big statues (which may or may not have contained some sort of magic relics like a pope’s finger or something to that effect). They prayed into bullhorns a lot.

Sometimes there were bagpipes

The bagpipes were actually pretty good. Mercy belted out god bless America to them while four of us sat on the landing in the stairwell in a way that almost embarrassingly resembled the goth kids in high school hanging out by the gym. But that’s a part of our culture.
The protesters mostly lined up along the north side of the complex along Indian School Road. According to one hotel employee posting on Twitter after the event, there was even at least one instance in which the police had to intervene because the Protestant and Catholic protesters began fighting with each other over their own theological differences… More