Responses so far
Comment 1	Stories of heaven and hell are great, but you must remember what they really are... stories, fables,and messages only to set some morals for this uncomfortable society as a whole. Representations of our human psyche, good and evil... maybe not meant to be understood but certainly not to be afraid to embrace... Afterall, we are just evolved animals who have been lucky enough to miss an earth-shaking meteor! Stories of the darker side are certainly not for the weak mind or weak-hearted, if you can't handle both sides, stay in your holes.
Comment 2	Shame on Factotum to create a cheap publicity stunt!
Comment 3	The devil has all the best tunes and now he seems to have the best PR as well. How else could an obscure, occult (hidden) publication get this many newspaper columns. You can always rely on the idle minds of local politicians to do the devil's work. Roll on Armageddon.
Comment 4	I'm a practicing Satanist and share BCC's disgust at the use of my religion to promote the evil that is art. These academics and so-called journalists should leave the dark path they are treading - it only leads to cynicism. Please, for Satan's sake stop this madness now.
Comment 5	I haven't read this disgusting rag but it seems to me to promote everything I abhore - open debate, diversity of views, non-conformity and challenges to the staus-quo (not the devil worshiping rock band). The Council are right to protect us from anything that questions the norm. I'm normal and proud.
Comment 6	Is it true that if you read this magazine backwards the devil appears and tells you to dress in black and stand outside Belfast City Hall on a Saturday? Surely this can not be a good thing.
Comment 7	I know someone who took a dump in Church, though, it was in the toilet so may not count or for that matter be very shocking.
Comment 8	Not even Satan would demand one to hang out in Belfast on a Saturday night.
Comment 9	I like debate, and like nothing better than having a large group friends around for a mass debate on a hot topic. For example our recent Black Mass debate. I think I will call round and see if I can arrange a mass debate with the Vacuum on these issues.
Comment 10	Eoin O'Broin is correct when he says the magazine is not to everyone's taste and that arts organisations' ends should not be interefered with. With this kind of common sense it is no wonder Sinn F?in is the fastest growing party in Ireland.
Comment 11	Expanding this discussion a bit wider I would like to make it known that there are apparently ghosts in Belfast City Hall. I look forward to the News Letter headline "Are-souls in the City Hall?" By the response of councillors to this issue the answer would have to be yes.
Comment 12	I simply cannot tolerate this sort of Unionist Councillor short-sightedness any longer. Liscensing hours, St. Patrick's Day, the Black Box proposal for St. Anne's Cathedral, no Halloween on a Sunday and now funding for the Vacuum - it seems they want to stand in the way of any positive development in our city if it does not suit their world view. Yet Jim Rogers and others have the audacity to justify as well as pick up the annual bill for the environmental disaster, disgusting mess and deep, sectarian provocation that are the 11th night bonfires. Disgraceful! They are simply out of touch with my generation. I used to vote UUP as was the tradition in my family. This is no longer to be the case.
Comment 13	I think that this is all very boring, tame stuff. But I'm sure that you won't let me make this point because it won't fit with your opinions on what's acceptable as feedback. Your magazine suffers in the same way, too.
Comment 14	I bet 11 of the first 12 of these comments came from the same person...
Comment 15	"well-qualified academics and journalists" - what does that mean? 'Artistic freedom of expression'. Are you joking? This is just nonsense.
Comment 16	You won't put my comments up will you, college boys. I suppose you're "well-qualified" too.
Comment 17	Don't my opinions count, don't you listen to members of the public? I THOUGHT NOT... YOU F*CKING ARSEHOLES - STICK YOUR 'WELL-QUALIFIED' UP YOUR SCRAWNY GARRETT-LIVING ARSES, YOU F*CKING POSEURS
Comment 18	HELL'S BELLS Satan's gonna get ya!
Comment 19	"Do what thou wilt. Shall be the whole of the law." Anton le Vey
Comment 20	"This is the testimony of all that I have seen, and all that I have learned, in those years that I have possessed the Three Seals of Masshu, I have seen One Thousand and One moons ... now I am weak and ill and bear a great tiredness and exhaustion and a sigh hangs in my breast like a dark lantern. I am old. The Wolves carry my name in their midnight speeches and that quiet subtle Voice is summoning me from afar. And a Voice much closer will shout into my ear with unholy impatience. The weight of my soul will decide its final resting place. Before that time, I must put down here all that I can concerning the horrors that stalk Without, and which lie in wait at the door of every man for this is the Ancient Arcana that has been handed down of old but which has been forgotten by all but a few men, the worshippers of the Ancient Ones.......".
Comment 21	Freemasonary is inheritently evil. It is a make up of the Church of Satan and I will expose this. Anton -Le Vey was a Grand Mason from the 1950s to 1970s and he was the high priest of the Church of Satan. He wrote alot of Freemasonary litterature.
Comment 22	The Black Mass is a valid Satanic ceremony only if one feels the need to perform it. Historically, there is no ritual more closely linked with Satanism, than the Black Mass. It has long been, considered the principal elective of Satanists, who were assumed never to tire of trampling on crosses and of stealing unbaptized infants. If a Satanist had nothing else to do, and was independently wealthy, newer and more blasphemous versions of the Messe Noir would be invented in order to nourish his jaded existence, the theory went. Though a titillating concept to many, it is without validity, and as devoid of logic as the assumption that Christians celebrate Good Friday every Wednesday afternoon.
Comment 23	Although the Black Mass is a ritual that has been performed countless times, the participants often were not Satanists, but would act solely on the idea that anything contradictory to God must be of the Devil. During the Inquisition, anyone who doubted the sovereignty of God and Christ was summarily considered a servant of Satan and suffered accordingly. The Inquisitors, needing an enemy, found one in the guise of witches who supposedly were subject to Satanic control. Witches were created in wholesale lots by the church from the ranks of the senile, sexually promiscuous, feeble. whirled, deformed, hysterical, and anyone who happened to be of non-Christian thought or background. There was only a minute percentage of actual healers and oracles. They were likewise persecuted.
Comment 24	YOU'RE F*CKING SCUM I HOPE YOU DIE
Comment 25	THANKS FOR YOUR STAND ON FREE SPEECH asshole
Comment 26	Satan's laughing while the flames grow higher, he's gonna pour cold piss on your funeral pyre.
Comment 27	Welcome to the Church of Satan. Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above-ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man?s true nature ? that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos which is permeated and motivated by the Dark Force which we call Satan. Over the course of time, Man has called this Force by many names, and it has been reviled by those whose very nature causes them to be separate from this fountainhead of existence. They live in obsessive envy of we who exist by flowing naturally with the dread Prince of Darkness. It is for this reason that individuals who resonate with Satan have always been an alien elite, often outsiders in cultures whose masses pursue solace in an external deity. We Satanists are our own Gods, and we are the explorers of the Left-Hand Path. We do not bow down before the myths and fictions of the desiccated spiritual followers of the Right-Hand Path.
Comment 28	Anton LaVey took the preservation of his Church seriously, and thus appointed many individuals to the Priesthood of Mendes to be his Devil?s Advocates, and this Priesthood ? along with the Order of the Trapezoid and the Council of Nine ? continued working with Magistra Barton to forward the iconoclastic philosophy synthesized by LaVey
Comment 29	i f*cking bet you wont
Comment 30	Comments 13 - 29 were posted from a single ISP on the night of 14 July and the morning of 15 July. For this reader's information, we cannot post comments immediately, unless it is during CIRCA's office hours. Thank you for your passionate feedback. CIRCA
Comment 31	'Comments 13 - 29 were posted from a single ISP on the night of 14 July ...' Clearly a nut job. You wouldn't happen to be a member of Belfast City Council?
Comment 32	Best laugh I've had in years! Pretty convincing rant there... I'm off to sell my soul to the Devil!
Comment 33	HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA! HA-HA-HA-HA!
Comment 34	Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes I mixed reality with pseudogod dreams The ghost of violence was something I seen I sold my soul to be the human obscene How could it poison me? The dream of my soul How did my fantasies take complete control, Well I feel something's taken me I don't know where It's like a trip inside a separate mind The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream Is telling me to leave it all behind Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow Got to get to happiness, want no more of sorrow How I lied, went to hide How I tried to get away from you now Am I right if I fight? That I might just get away from you now Sting me! Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return It's giving me the chance of saving my soul Beating the demigod, I'm fading away I'm going backwards but I'm in control Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow Was it wise to disguise How I tried to get away from you now Is there a way that I could pay Or is it true I have to stay with you now? How I lied, went to hide How I tried to get away from you now Am I right if I fight? That I might just get away from you now Suck me! I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth I've seized my soul in the fires of hell Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine I simply try, but he wants me to fail Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow Now I've found my happiness, providence of sorrow No more lies, I got wise I despise the way I worshipped you yeah Now I'm free, can't you see And now instead I won't be led by you now Free!
Comment 35	Okay so that's the Black Sabbath lyrics. Anything by The Proclaimers?
Comment 36	It must be remembered that everyone does not know what goes bump in the night. There are meetings going on in Belfast.
Comment 37	Does anyone actually understand Satanism? Or are you all still under your strange Christian influences. Hell, my eye!
Comment 38	Isn't the bible all about heaven and Hell crap too!! If we fart wrong we're all gonna go to Hell! According to the bible, we should stay in bed, never breathe, don't eat, don't think, don't have any thoughts except for God as God is to be worshipped only and everything we own must be given away to other people so they too can throw away their things as it is wrong to gather up materialistic goods, so let's all lock ourselves in a wee dark corner in a wee dark room, shut our eyes and hum really loud incase we let in any impure, evil or worldly thoughts. No offence, but the churches, priests, God, the holy bible and the politicians of Northern Ireland can go and f.....
Comment 39	Satanism is a religion no matter what you think, so discriminating against any kind of Devil worship is racist, so why do you think we mock Christianity? It's a blalance and a war.
Comment 40	Censorship of the arts by intolerant, right-wing, and/or fundamentalist types is a dangerous undertone in our modern society. When we artists are limited in our creative expression by the religious beliefs and fears of others, then art suffers in a pool of stagnation. When art stagnates (which, fortunatly for the open minded, will never happen) then our culture suffers the rigid confines of one judgmental group's special interest. Does the name Hitler ring a bell? Would the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City be better if all the nude bodies were clothed and the demons painted as angels?
Comment 41	Anyone out there want to help set up a blatantly offensive and blasphemous independent publication? Just for a laugh, like?

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