Michael Flynn to QAnon Believers: I'm Not a Satanist!

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Will Sommer
@willsommer
Michael Flynn has embraced his profitable role as a QAnon star. But now QAnon has turned on him, accusing him of being a Satanist agent after he led a church congregation in what they say is a Satanic prayer borrowed from a nuclear doomsday cult.

Michael Flynn to QAnon Believers: I’m Not a Satanist!
Michael Flynn is finding out the hard way that surrounding himself with QAnon followers can have a pretty sharp downside.
thedailybeast.com
7:03 AM · Oct 8, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-to-qanon-believers-im-not-a-satanist?ref=home

*snip*


Flynn’s trouble started on Sept. 17, when he led a congregation at Nebraska pastor Hank Kunneman’s Lord of Hosts Church in prayer. Flynn’s prayer included invocations to “sevenfold rays” and “legions,” two phrases that struck some of Flynn’s followers as strange.

“We are your instrument of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, all of them,” Flynn said, later adding, “We will be the instrument of your will, whatever it is. In your name, and in the name of your legions, we are freeborn, and we shall remain freeborn, and we shall not be enslaved by any foe.”

As video of the prayer circulated in online conspiracy theorist groups, the references to “legions” and “rays” soon sparked speculation among Flynn’s right-wing supporters that their hero had been lured to the dark side. Always on the lookout for the Satanic influence they imagine lurks at the heart of the world, they claimed that Flynn had secretly been worshiping the devil. Worse, since the congregation was repeating the prayer after Flynn, the rumor went, he had duped hundreds of Christians into joining the ritual.

“A lot of people in the Christian world believe that when you pray to rays of light and legions that you’re praying to the devil,” Oebel, the YouTube host, explained

*snip*

[gab13by13]

1. Who among us

hasn't at one time or another had to refute being a satanist?

[Silent3]

3. At least once or twice before breakfast every day!

Do you think it's the pulsating red glow from the ancient runic symbols tattooed all over my face?

[Iggo]

7. Atheists do it on the reg.

[Jirel]

13. Not to mention pagans.

[Champp]

2. "I'm not a Satanist. You can, um, trust me. Heh heh." - Flynn (R-Traitor)

[Haggard Celine]

4. Flynn is probably inhabited by a legion of demons.

He's definitely evil, just like the guy who pardoned him. The Trump movement is about deceiving the RW Christian world in the service of the Dark Lord. Spread it around. Make them deny it.

[gratuitous]

5. Has Flynn ever been to the country of the Gerasenes?

Just asking questions here!

[Haggard Celine]

9. I had to google that one.

I was more acquainted with them as Gadarenes, but they're also known as Gerasenes or Gergasenes. The thought of the legion of demons in the crazy man in the graveyard did cross my mind when I wrote that post, but now that you mention it, I have to wonder if Flynn, Trump, and others are part of the original herd of swine that received the demons. Trump especially reminds me of a hog. Maybe these Trump people are the same herd Jesus encountered in Gadara and are constantly being reborn to cause havoc. That's at least as plausible as some of the shit I hear from Dominionist Christianity.

[Iggo]

6. Religion is the BEST!

[Thomas Hurt]

8. naw you are an anti-christ like Dear Leader Pig.

[keithbvadu2]

11. For over 100 years, every Prez has been called the anti-Christ by someone.

[Thomas Hurt]

14. not the anti-chirst, AN antichrist. Not some end timer supernatural asshole...

just an amoral pig who doesn't believe in the things Christ taught.

[Midnight Writer]

10. I've often said this struggle is between good and evil.

I don't necessarily equate Theosophism or Satanism with evil, but I bet Flynn does.

He is intentionally invoking what he believes are the forces of darkness.

And he is leading people down a dark path.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Satanist? - Some people say. - That's good enough.

Satanist? - Some people say. - That's good enough.

Get behind me, Satan... and PUSH!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. These people are crazy

[tanyev]

16. LOL. A circular firing squad always has the same outcome.

[brooklynite]

17. Isn't that what a Satanist would say?