Ben Kissel
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It's very funny how it all...
I also think that Anton LaVey was inspired by Scientology in terms of the money and understanding that you can do that, that you can just set up an actual religion.
I just love Sammy Davis Jr.
Yeah, cat, yeah, see?
Hail Satan now, baby.
Yeah, you might want to, yeah.
Which is, he was always about that.
He was always like that.
He was not a teetotaler, but he was close to it.
Meanwhile, the Catholics are giving wine to children.
Yeah, and then the old kids get fucking chlamydia from sharing the goblet with everybody.
His real point was, you know what he was really against was the idea of, at the time, the idea of free love.
That is what he was specifically against.
Yes.
He liked to pee-pee and to poo-poo.
But no, his thing was, I don't think you deserve to be loved just for existing.
The free love movement was all about how everyone should be loved no matter what they do.
And you create an absolution type environment for anybody that wants to come and kind of try to forgive themselves first.
And then you guys can all be like this idea that we all should be loved no matter what.
Anton LaVey is trying to say,