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Show f-y Oils djac'ci chy rch ;1 Satainie activities in Davis County '" '' ' ;6 i. . r ' , ' ' m. Jin tr X VT' ' 1 Ll j .. . 111! Mill HMIIlUllKirffinm MIMIIITirTWH7ITMlMT1Hlwfr - i . To be a priest, sell your sole' By CHERIE HUBER Are there people in Davis County involved in satanic activities? The answer is "yes" and there are more than just a few. . The following includes excerpts from an interview with a 21-year old Davis County resident who was willing to talk about his experiences with 'the dark church." We are not using his name because other people peo-ple involved in studying satanic activities ac-tivities believe those who leave cults could be in danger. The young man said he had been a member of a cult from the time he was 13 years old until he was 19. 5 ;; : "There are similarities in the Satanic ' Church ; and the LDS Church. I was baptized by immer-sion immer-sion of sorts but it was blood not water. There was a ritual of eating raw animals and going through tests. You can work your way up to becoming what they call a high priest You have to do things! like see how . much you can drink x without dying, steal a cop car or. , take part in sex orgies. I decided to leave the group I was involved with i when they started talking about human sacrifices. To break the ties, 1 1 left the state for awhile. ; f w J' "I got my black Bible at a book 7 store in Salt Lake. Detective, magazines maga-zines also always have a lot of mail order stuff in them. You just have to ; know what to look for. .', , . . v ''What usually happens is that a j little group will start playing around j with devil worship as sort of a i game. Then they slowly get deeper ? into it They eventually really know about it That's when you wish you ' i didn't know anything about it "I '- was just playing with it and look : what happened to me. Once you're ' in you wish you were out ; . j T "I was 11 when I started to x smoke. That led to drugs and then to Satanism. I found out about it v from my friends and peers. There-I There-I was a group that met at a house up '; ; behind the capitol but that chapter ' moved. - --'; r-' "I thought that it was set up a lot I like the LDS Church. There is everything from peons to a high ; priest You can sell half your soul or all of it To be a priest you have i to sell all of your souL "The high priestess is in charge of getting me rituals organized. -They operate like the bishop and his counselors, someone serves as . a prophet and there are also the high priests who serve like the Quorum of Seventy. r; Y VThere was one group called the Dragons. There were about 250 of them in North Salt Lake and Bountiful. Boun-tiful. There is another group of Dragons in Salt Lake of about 350. But there are also a lot of small groups all around Utah, Idaho and California that I know of. . "As far as I know, the groups ,., ' j. . PHOTOS BY ROGER TUTTLE Many Davis County youth are playing with fire as they experiment with Satinism. Area psychologists, parents and ' j, teachers have reported -incidences of teens being involved with Satanic cults. Often, a small group will stary playing around with devil worship as a game. They get deeper and deeper before they really know what it is all about. that' started it here in Utah came from Missouri. Some of the leaders had whole libraries of books about demonology. You're introduced to it; and then, if you show any interest, inter-est, they'll slowly teach you about it and .show: you tricks that can be done with your mind. A lot of the mind tricks are not part of the dark church, but they impress people. "Finally, they get you going to the meetings regularly and then finally there is an initiation or baptismal bap-tismal night It is very hard to leave once you join. I would guess only about four out of every ten members live very long after they leave. It's a living nightmare and many of the kids will eventually commit suicide. "It's two years since I've been a part of it My parents didn't know. They thought I was on drugs. Kids will say they are on drugs and alcohol as a cover-up. Typically, you sleep all day and then go out from sunset until sunup. The more I got into it the more rebellious I became with my parents. I had worked up to a high priest before I left Now I feel I'm' fighting to get just half of my soul back." . |