Speak of the Devil (1995) by Nick Bougas & Adam Parfrey


Speak of the Devil
Nick Bougas & Adam Parfrey, USA, 1995, 90 min


SPEAK OF THNE DEVIL (1995) by Nick Bougas & Adam Parfrey

‘The world, legacy, music, loves, rituals, careers and philosophies of Anton Szandor LaVey’.


‘In the 1980s and 1990s the Church of Satan and its members were very active in producing movies, music, films, and magazines devoted to Satanism. Most notably Adam Parfrey’s Feral House publishing, the music of Boyd Rice, and the films of Nick Bougas, including his documentary Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey. The Church of Satan and Anton LaVey were also the subject of numerous magazine and news articles during this time’ (WIKI).


Anton S. Lavey on the cover of Look Mgazine, 08.24.1971

Congrès athée à Montréal

C’était hier que s’ouvrait le congrès conjoint de l’Alliance athée internationale (AAI) en collaboration avec Humaniste Canada (HC).


Premier congrès explicitement athée à Montréal et premier congrès nord-américain de l’AAI à l’extérieur des États-Unis, l’événement, qui se déroule à l’hôtel Delta centre-ville jusqu’à demain, devrait accueillir une centaine de personnes tout au long de la fin de semaine.


Parmi les conférenciers, les Québécois Daniel Baril, Rodrigue Tremblay et Louise Mailloux, militants bien connus du milieu laïque, de même que le Français Philippe Besson, les Américains, P.Z. Myers, biologiste évolutionniste célèbre, le philosophe américain Daniel Dennett, auteur de Breaking the Spell, et les Belges Serge Deruette et Nadia Geerts (auteure de Fichu voile!). Parmi les activités du congrès, une soirée célébrant la Journée internationale contre les lois antiblasphèmes, marquant l’importance de la liberté d’expression, aura lieu, ainsi qu’un spectacle d’humour.



Le Devoir
Consultez le communiqué de la conférence ici.

The Secret Teaching of All Ages (1928) by MANLY P. HALL

THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES by Manly P. Hall (1928)

‘For once, a book which really lives up to its title. Hall self-published this massive tome in 1928, consisting of about 200 legal-sized pages in 8 point type; it is literally his magnum opus. Each of the nearly 50 chapters is so dense with information that it is the equivalent of an entire short book.


If you read this book in its entirety you will be in a good position to dive into subjects such as the Qabbala, Alchemy, Tarot, Ceremonial Magic, Neo-Platonic Philosophy, Mystery Religions, and the theory of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Although there are some questionable and controversial parts of the book, such as the outdated material on Islam, the portion on the Bacon-Shakespeare hypothesis, and Hall’s conspiracy theory of history as driven by an elite cabal of roving immortals, they are far out-weighed by the comprehensive information here on other subjects’


Disponible en ligne ici.

Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says


If you want to know about God, you might want to talk to an atheist.


Heresy? Perhaps. But a survey that measured Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists and agnostics knew more, on average, than followers of most major faiths. In fact, the gaps in knowledge among some of the faithful may give new meaning to the term « blind faith. »


A majority of Protestants, for instance, couldn’t identify Martin Luther as the driving force behind the Protestant Reformation, according to the survey, released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Four in 10 Catholics misunderstood the meaning of their church’s central ritual, incorrectly saying that the bread and wine used in Holy Communion are intended to merely symbolize the body and blood of Christ, not actually become them.


Atheists and agnostics – those who believe there is no God or who aren’t sure – were more likely to answer the survey’s questions correctly. Jews and Mormons ranked just below them in the survey’s measurement of religious knowledge – so close as to be statistically tied.


So why would an atheist know more about religion than a Christian?



Read the full story by Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times.



Silence religieux

MAJ : REGARDER L’ÉPISODE


À venir jeudi le 30 septembre 20h à l’émission Enquête de Radio-Canada


Il y a quelques mois, d’anciens élèves du Collège Notre-Dame sont sortis de l’ombre pour accuser plusieurs frères de la congrégation de Sainte-Croix d’agressions sexuelles. Selon eux, non seulement les responsables de la congrégation étaient au courant des crimes commis par leurs membres, mais ils n’ont dénoncé aucun des agresseurs et ils les ont même protégés.


Enquête a rencontré plusieurs victimes, recueilli les confessions extrêmement troublantes d’un ancien frère et obtenu un document confidentiel qui confirme ce que les victimes avancent : les responsables de Sainte-Croix savaient, mais ils ont choisi de se taire.



Merci FX Tremblay