‘Divisive Figure’: Media Ghouls Rush To Smear Charlie Kirk After Horrific Assassination
Not even an hour after he was shot while speaking at a Utah college, media hacks leapt into action to smear TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.Not even an hour after he was shot while speaking at a Utah college, media hacks leapt into action to smear TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.The idols and lies behind the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting
Picture the scene: a mother straightening her child’s collar before drop-off; a father whispering, “Be good, I’ll see you after school”; children filing into the sanctuary where an inscription proclaims it as “the House of God and the gate of Heaven.”
Then, horror. On August 27, an 8-year-old and 10-year-old were shot and killed when 23-year-old “Robin” Westman opened fire through the stained glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church while children attended Mass. The shooting began just before 8:30 a.m. during a worship service to mark the first week of school.
We’ve discipled a generation to crave applause — even if it comes through destruction.
What should have been the safest place became a scene of carnage.
The suspect — armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol — fired dozens of rounds into the sanctuary as children sat in pews, praying. Westman was later found dead in the back of the church from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the FBI is investigating the shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics” — words that should make every Christian in America sit up and pay attention.
The facts reveal a pattern
Suspect Robin Westman graduated from Annunciation Catholic’s grade school in 2017, and a woman with the same name as Westman’s mother previously worked at the church where the shooting took place.
Westman identified as transgender, and in 2020, when he was 17 years old, his mother signed a consent form for him to legally change his name from Robert to Robin because he “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”
The attack was premeditated. Police say the shooter placed wooden two-by-fours through the door handles of two separate exits of the church, which police say required prior planning. The suspect also posted a manifesto on YouTube (since taken down) filled with angry rantings about, among many other things, a dream to “kill innocent children.”
This wasn’t random violence — it was a calculated assault on a Christian institution during worship.
And it’s eerily similar to a 2023 attack on the Covenant School in Nashville by a transgender killer who was also a former student and who wrote a manifesto revealing a vendetta against white Christian children.
The futility of identity without Christ
Our culture promises freedom in self-expression, but the writings of these shooters tell the truth: Self-made identities don’t set anyone free; they enslave.
When identity becomes idolatry, it demands worship. And when the idol disappoints — when the new name, the new gender, the new pronouns can’t deliver peace — the result is despair, rage, and destruction.
Paul warned us in Romans 1: Exchange the truth of God for a lie, and futility follows. Darkened hearts, disordered passions, and ultimately death — that is exactly what we see in these stories. Young men and women convinced they could reinvent themselves apart from the God who made them, only to discover that the god of self is a cruel master.
The Covenant shooter’s journals revealed a heart consumed by confusion, obsession, and suicidal ideation. The Minneapolis shooter’s life echoed the same pattern — an identity unmoored from truth, a soul collapsing inward. These are not outliers. They are the predictable fruit of a culture that preaches, “You are whoever you say you are.”
The idol of infamy
The Covenant shooter’s journals revealed another obsession — not just with killing but with being known for it. The Minneapolis shooter also fantasized about being made famous in museum exhibits and imagined documentaries, and he dreamed of leaving a mark through blood. That’s not just violence. That’s worship.
This is the modern Tower of Babel: “Let us make a name for ourselves” (Genesis 11:4). But the bricks aren’t stacked stones, they’re stacked bodies. The altar isn’t on a desert plain, it’s in a classroom. When identity fails to satisfy, the idol of infamy steps in to whisper, “At least they’ll remember your name.”
Our culture feeds that idol daily. TikTok fame. Instagram clout. The myth that 15 minutes of recognition is worth a lifetime of obscurity. We’ve discipled a generation to crave applause — even if it comes through destruction.
But Scripture reminds us: The only legacy that matters is one hidden with Christ. “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). The names that endure are not the names carved into headlines but the names written in the Book of Life.
Minnesota's gun laws couldn't stop evil
In knee-jerk fashion, almost immediately after the news of the shooting broke, Minnesota’s local, state, and federal politicians began calling for more gun control. But here’s what they won’t tell you: Minnesota maintains some of the nation’s strictest gun control measures. The state requires universal background checks, enforces “red flag” laws, mandates waiting periods for handgun purchases, and prohibits certain firearm accessories. All three weapons used by Westman were purchased legally and recently.
Romans 1 isn’t just theology; it’s predictive sociology.
Yet, two children are dead and 17 were wounded by gun violence in Minnesota’s largest city.
Every law the gun control lobby demands was already in place. Every “common sense” restriction leftists claim will stop mass shootings was on the books. Yet, evil found a way — because evil always does when hearts are darkened and truth is rejected.
The problem isn’t access to firearms — it’s the spiritual disease eating away at young hearts in a culture that worships lies and delusions. When identity becomes idolatry, when self-invention replaces submission to God’s design, when we tell children they can be whoever they want to be apart from their Creator, when truth is exchanged for lies, the result is predictably destructive and death follows. Romans 1 isn’t just theology; it’s predictive sociology.
The church in the crosshairs
Wednesday’s tragedy in Minneapolis marks another targeted attack on a Christian institution, and the pattern is impossible to ignore:
- Nashville, 2023: the Covenant School massacre that targeted Presbyterian children and teachers.
- Minneapolis, 2025: Annunciation Catholic School is attacked during Mass.
- Nationwide since 2022: Dozens of pregnancy centers have been firebombed and hundreds of churches have been vandalized — Christian institutions are under relentless assault across America.
While schools of various affiliations have been targets of violence, since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Family Research Council statistics show a marked increase in attacks specifically targeting Christian institutions. FRC documented 57 pro-abortion acts of hostility against churches in 2022 alone, compared to only five such incidents combined from 2019 to 2021.
The pattern reveals directed hostility that goes beyond random violence.
Notice what we don’t see: Shooters storming mosques, gunmen targeting secular private academies, or attacks on progressive gatherings. The hostility is directed, deliberate, and spiritual in nature.
The massacre at Annunciation Catholic Church wasn’t just another tragedy; it was a revelation of where our culture now stands.
Jesus told us plainly: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you ... because you are not of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:18-19).
This isn’t random violence; it’s targeted hostility against the cross. The spirit of this age is not neutral. It is anti-Christ. And Satan doesn’t waste bullets on secular idols; he wages war against the Bride of Christ.
The response that matters
Not surprisingly, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) used the tragedy as an opportunity for political posturing. He slammed those who offered their “thoughts and prayers” and tried to shift the conversation about the “real” victims of this tragedy, stating, “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity.”
But asking hard questions about the spiritual and psychological state of mass shooters isn’t “villainizing” — it’s seeking truth about the cultural forces producing these tragedies. The mayor’s deflection reveals how our leaders refuse to confront the deeper issues.
Meanwhile, “within seconds” of the gunfire, Annunciation’s “heroic staff moved students under the pews.” Adults protected children. Older children shielded younger ones. Even in a time of panic and horror, the church demonstrated the sacrificial love of Christ.
The call forward: No more games
The massacre at Annunciation Catholic Church wasn’t just another tragedy; it was a revelation of where our culture now stands. Even in a city with some of the strictest gun laws in America, children died because we’ve created a society that worships lies about identity, celebrates self-invention, and rejects the God who defines us.
The world tells us to “find ourselves.” Jesus tells us to “lose ourselves.” One path ends in headlines of blood. The other ends in eternal life.
Two children went to school on August 27 and never came home. Their blood cries out, not only for our prayers, but for us to confront the spiritual crisis producing such evil, to reject the lies that fuel it, and to stand firm on the truth that transforms hearts.
This article is adapted from an essay originally published at Liberty University's Standing for Freedom Center.
Say hello to Labubu: A cuddly collectible with a hint of hell
Labubu began as a cutesy monster character in Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung’s Nordic mythology-inspired picture book series, “The Monsters.” However, when Pop Mart, a Chinese toy company, began producing and selling the character as a collectible plush toy in blind boxes in 2019, it became a global sensation, producing millions of dollars in revenue over the past few years.
The big-eyed, sharp-toothed plush toy has even been endorsed by high-profile celebrities like Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Kim Kardashian, Lizzo, Simone Biles, David Beckham, and Cher, among many others.
Recently, however, people began to notice something strange about the Labubu doll: It has an uncanny resemblance to the Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu — the evil spirit that possesses and torments the character Regan in the 1973 film “The Exorcist.”
Before long, reports about Labubu toys exhibiting supernatural behavior started circulating, with people claiming that their doll whispers, changes eye color and facial expressions, moves on its own, and haunts their dreams. Some have even reported electronic devices malfunctioning or lights flickering in rooms where Labubu dolls were displayed.
Several people have resorted to burning their dolls or dousing them in holy water to ward off evil.
Is this a case of internet-spawned hysteria, or is there indeed a darkness attached to this toy?
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey ventured down the rabbit hole of the Labubu controversy. Her conclusion: Stay away.
“Is this doll demonic? I don't know. I don't think it is possible for … an object to be demon-possessed,” says Allie, who attributes claims of supernatural Labubus to “superstition and not a biblical understanding of the powers that exist.”
She points to 1 Corinthians 8:4, where Paul reminds us that idols have “no real existence.”
“There is no inherent power in those icons or in those idols. They can't hear. They can't see. They don't have power in and of themselves,” says Allie.
What’s concerning to her, however, is not the possibility of Labubus holding power but rather the idolatry they inspire.
“From a biblical perspective, [Labubus are] absolutely idolatrous,” she says.
In the West, this idolatry most often takes the form of materialism — “collecting that which is here today and gone tomorrow,” but in the East, it can look like “straight-up idolatry."
“In Thailand, the Labubu character has been incorporated into Buddhist amulets [and] sacred tattoos due to its perceived ability to bring wealth and good fortune. Labubus were also featured in a Taoist ritual at a temple in Singapore during the nine emperor gods festival,” says Allie.
In both cases, it’s clear that Labubus are “casting some sort of spell on people,” she warns.
“Whether it is the kind of outright idolatry — idol worship, pagan worship — that we are seeing through Labubu in a place like Thailand, or whether it's just part of this worship of materialism … or whether it is part of this very strange and disturbing trend of infantilizing the scary … I think [Labubu] is a very dangerous influence on the people who are purchasing these items and especially on the culture that our children are growing into.”
To hear more about the Labubu craze and Allie’s biblical analysis of this dark cultural trend, watch the episode above.
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Jason Whitlock: Tyler Perry’s ‘Straw’ is ‘demonic’
The number-one film currently streaming on Netflix is Tyler Perry’s latest movie, called "Straw," which follows a single mother who faces “a series of painful events.”
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock and BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle didn’t love the film, but they do think it revealed something about Perry’s audience.
“Initially, I was very upset with Tyler Perry, simply because I thought, you know, his greatest fan base, which he himself has admitted is black women, I thought it would go completely over their heads,” Michelle tells Whitlock.
“Spoiler alert, for those who haven’t seen it,” she continues, “he waited until the very last minute of the movie to really show that this woman was suffering from psychosis, which is a mental disorder based on being completely detached from reality, which is what she was.”
“I got even angrier when I got online and it was proven that it completely went over women’s heads, and I kept seeing them say, ‘Oh, I am Janiah,’ who is the main character of the movie. ‘I stand with Janiah,’ you know, ‘Janiah is me, this is what single women go through every single day,’” she continues.
However, not all black single women are walking around suffering from psychosis.
“This is not what single women or single mothers go through every day,” Michelle says. “And then I had to say it’s not Tyler Perry’s fault that his main group of supporters are intellectual midgets.”
“I’m just trying to figure out where to stand with Tyler, because I thought he just could have done a better job, but I think it exposes the psychosis in black women, the detachment from reality, the hallucinations, the bad behavior, because so many of them were just applauding this,” she adds.
After watching the film, Whitlock had a similar realization.
“Corporate media, the movies, Netflix: They’re all just dumping poison. You’re a victim no matter what you do, no matter how crazy you are, no matter how violent you are, you’re only doing it because this system is racist and because you’ve been mistreated,” Whitlock says.
“And this is where you and I disagree,” he tells Michelle. “Tyler Perry is the source of a lot of the delusion that black women have. His movies are there to create delusion among black women, to create a false reality.”
“His movies are demonic, and his movies are there to make black women think they can do no wrong, they’re a victim of everything, the world is against them,” he adds.
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Demons in the dark: The terrifying experience that permanently ended a radio show’s horror series
Ghost stories are all fun and games until they’re not.
Years ago, when Calvin “Speedy” Wilburn, Rick Burgess’ longtime co-host and producer, traveled around the country visiting haunted sites for a popular October series on the now-retired “Rick and Bubba Show,” he had no idea he’d encounter actual demons.
Dubbed “13 Days of Horror,” the well-intentioned Halloween series was supposed to be a lighthearted way to enjoy October festivities. Rick describes it as a “Scooby-Doo ... Ghostbusters kind of thing.”
But it wasn’t long before the crew discovered that there’s no such thing as lighthearted horror.
On this episode of “Strange Encounters,” Speedy shares the harrowing story of a demonic encounter that shook him so deeply, the team shut down the series forever.
“13 Days of Horror” focused primarily on visiting purportedly haunted historical landmarks. Speedy and the camera crew often teamed up with paranormal groups armed with infrared cameras and EMF meters to venture into the country’s dark corners.
However, one “very cold Alabama night,” the team broke with tradition when, instead of visiting another landmark, they met up with a lady and her young daughter at their house, which they claimed was haunted.
The crew immediately knew they were dealing with something different when the child showed them bloody scratches on her body where a demon had allegedly attacked her in her sleep. The mother told bone-chilling stories of her daughter waking up with braids in her hair that weren’t there before she went to sleep and candles being blown out en masse around the house.
Speedy recounts how upon entering the home, he could feel that “the vibe was different.” There was a “heaviness” and a “darkness” that “weighted on [his] shoulders.”
The paranormal hunters they were with then began “asking questions for the spirit to appear.” They even had the young girl, who was “horrified,” ask her spiritual tormentor questions about why it was attacking her.
That’s when Speedy and the team shut it down and left the house, knowing that what they were involved with was no laughing matter.
On the car ride back, one of the staff members who had been taking pictures in the home pulled out his camera to look over the images.
The photos he had taken were completely black except for numerous “orbs” hovering everywhere.
That’s when the crew knew for certain that what they had experienced was “not a spooky, funny, let's go have a good time, Mystery Machine, Scooby-Doo, bring back a funny bit for the show” situation.
“This was a demonic heaviness, a serious situation we were in, and looking back on it and knowing what we were doing and what we were asking, you just feel so foolish,” Speedy tells Rick.
While that experience shut down the series permanently, there had already been other experiences that had made the crew wary about their “13 Days of Horror” segment. There was another time when the crew was left quaking in their boots after visiting the children’s wing of an abandoned mental institution.
Speedy also shares wild stories from his dad’s days of going door-to-door sharing the gospel that will make your blood run cold. From a woman who “roared like a lion” at the sound of Jesus’ name to a sick patient who spoke in a voice that was not her own, these moments confronted Speedy with a spiritual reality far beyond the playful scares the crew had set out to chase.
To hear the details of each harrowing demonic encounter and Rick’s biblical response, watch the episode above.
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Meet the man building the Christian answer to Fortnite
The word “programming” gets tossed around often when talking about TV — and it carries two meanings. One is obvious. The other is more insidious.
What you and your kids watch is programming. Not just what’s on the screen, but what’s being impressed upon them.
To some people, especially tech giants like Google, the message of the Bible runs counter to much of what they are pushing onto kids today.
The same can be said about the video games children play. And in many cases, it’s worse. Far too many video games marketed to children numb them to violence or undermine traditional values. This isn't just a game. Kids inured to violence grow into adults inured to violence. Children taught to regard other people as objects — whether as targets in a first-person shooter game or as targets of lascivious attention — tend to grow into morally calloused adults.
These kinds of games, like the smartphones and tablets they’re played on, are everywhere. It seems every kid has either one or both devices, making it difficult for parents to protect them or prevent access to violent, unwholesome material, including interactive online games.
Some of these platforms offer more than just harmful ideas. Predators have been known to use online games to reach unsuspecting children by disguising themselves as other players.
A new solution
But what can parents do?
Parental controls only go so far, and today’s tech-savvy kids often know more about computers and the internet by the time they’re 13 than their parents ever will. Taking away devices is a clumsy — and worse, ineffective — tool. Your kids’ friends almost certainly have devices, and access to them can circumvent any boundaries you try to set at home.
One thing parents can do is provide their kids with an alternative.
Enter TruPlay, a new gaming platform created by Brent Dusing to bring “high-quality, fun, and biblically sound” entertainment to kids.
Dusing, a Harvard graduate and pioneer in Christian gaming through his previous venture, Lightside Games (which reached over 7 million players worldwide), also serves on the board of Promise Keepers — the organization dedicated to “Making Dads Great Again.”
The TruPlay suite of apps includes Bible-based games, such as “King David’s Battles,” which allows kids to role-play biblical characters. The Comics and Videos app illustrates scriptural themes in a graphic novel, similar in theme to “The Dark Knight Rises” but without the darkness. Other games resemble classic hits like the iconic block-building game Tetris — but using stained glass pieces instead.
Counterprogramming vs. censorship
This, too, isn't a game. It's counterprogramming.
Dusing says "there’s a lot of awful content" out there and “almost nothing … delivers God’s truth or hope or joy or Jesus Christ to children at all in the gaming space.” In fact, anything that dares to mention Jesus or the Bible, whether in gaming or any other space, without mocking it, is itself mocked. Compare that to the media frenzy around the release of a new first-person shooter. Coverage is wall-to-wall, as if it were the second coming.
But wholesome, family-friendly platforms like TruPlay get crickets — and sometimes worse than crickets.
According to Dusing, Big Tech platforms like Google have blocked or limited the visibility of TruPlay ads, claiming "sensitive interest" as the justification — as if promoting Jesus and biblical values were somehow dangerous.
To some, it is.
To some people, especially tech giants like Google, the message of the Bible runs counter to much of what they are pushing onto kids today — including, in some cases, the explicitly demonic, as opposed to an action game about King David or an adventure game about a little girl who believes in Jesus.
Dusing says TruPlay is being suppressed by Google because "the algorithms themselves view the content we make, encouraging biblically inspired games for children, as a threat."
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Of course it is — and that's precisely the point.
"There has been this sea change generationally in America — and really throughout the world — of people playing games as a common part of entertainment and cultural understanding,” Dusing says.
Indeed.
We went from innocent, fun games like “Space Invaders” and “Pac-Man” to hyper-realistic first-person shooter games like “Call of Duty,”designed to realistically convey what it's like to shoot another human being. Games like “Grand Theft Auto” make sport out of stealing, and games like “Doom” and “Quake” present satanic material as “fun.”
It’s a cultural rip current — pulling kids along while they don't even realize they’re in the water. And here we are.
“What world do we live in where fun, inspirational games with Christian principles are offensive but sexual content for small children, including sex trafficking, is permitted with no problems on Google?” Dusing asks.
It's a question that demands answers.
TruPlay’s response is "to transform generations of children in such a profound way that it will shape culture” in a different direction.
Basement demons, severed goat heads & child assassination plots: Former FBI agent shares blood-chilling stories from days undercover
Retired undercover FBI agent Scott Payne spent much of his career infiltrating motorcycle gangs and white supremacist groups, including the Klan. There are no words to describe some of the horrors he’s witnessed over the years.
“I'm sitting across the table from a pedophile who's hiring me to kill the kid that he molested,” he recalls from his undercover days. “There's a lot of people out there that just don't know how evil the world can be.”
A rock solid faith in God, he tells Glenn Beck, is what got him through then and what helps him fight the ghosts of the past now.
But he didn’t always have a relationship with God to strengthen him. In fact, there was a time in high school when dabbling in witchcraft led to a terrifying face-to-face encounter with a demon in his friend’s basement that scared him so deeply, he ran to Jesus and never looked back.
But that wasn’t his last encounter with the demonic. From children pledging to shoot their own fathers and pagan rituals, Payne has seen things most of us couldn’t fathom.
On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” he shares some of his wildest stories.
In 2019, Payne infiltrated “the Base” — a neo-Nazi, white supremacist group founded in 2018 that promotes accelerationist ideology, which aims to collapse society through violence and terrorism to create a white ethnostate.
One event he attended, which he calls “Halloween hate camp,” involved “hand-to-hand combat training,” “firearms training,” “burning Bibles, burning American flags,” and a “ceremony of paganism” that included animal sacrifice.
Some members of the group stole a goat from a nearby farm, planning to sacrifice it to Odin – the central figure in Norse mythology who is the god of both war and death. The sacrifice was meant to symbolize the kicking off of the “Wild Hunt” — a midwinter ghostly procession of spirits and supernatural beings led by Odin to destroy enemies and send mortals to the underworld.
The Wild Hunt was seen as symbolic of the Base’s desire to “cleanse the world of anti-fascist non-whites.”
“We're all in a circle on our knees around the goat,” says Payne. “He comes down full-fledged with the blade.”
However, the blade was dull and failed to pierce the animal’s skin, so the executioner used a gun to finish the job.
“You think you're done, and you're not. They go and slice the throat of the goat, fill up a big cup with its blood,” says Payne, who went by the moniker Pale Horse.
The executioner then passed out acid to the group.
“They chase it with the blood as part of the sacrifice,” Payne tells Glenn, noting that he was able to avoid the acid but still had to “[dip his] whole finger” in the cup and “[suck] all the blood off.”
“Then, they cut the head of it off, threw its innards in the creek. Some members tried to cook it ... and then we carried the head around for, like, three more days,” he recalls.
Glenn then asks the question we’re all thinking: How did you reconcile such a job given your faith?
“I’m in work mode, and I know that somebody had to kick Satan out of heaven,” he says.
To hear more of Payne’s wild stories, including Bibles that wouldn’t burn and the time he nearly was found out, watch the episode above.
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Chicago Public Schools Pays $2.6M For Allegedly Forcing Students To Participate In Hindu Ritual
Kaya Hudgins, now 22, testified in a deposition that she was told participation in a 'Quiet Time' of Transcendental Meditation was mandatory.‘Feels like a demonic ritual’ — KFC’s latest commercial will SHOCK you
In 1930, a man named Harland Sanders began selling fried chicken from a roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky. That restaurant eventually became the global franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken, more commonly known as KFC. It’s been adored for generations.
However, now droves of people are swearing off the restaurant for life — and not because of the MAHA movement.
The latest KFC commercial — a blend of creepy cultish behavior and a not-so-subtle insinuation of cannibalism — likely has Sanders rolling over in his grave.
Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” plays the full commercial.
Here’s a brief summary of what transpires in the two-minute ad: A young man walks alone in a misty forest. He suddenly encounters a chicken staring at him from behind a tree. Then, out of the blue, a puffy vest descends from the sky onto a woman. Then, a bunch of people all wearing similar clothing come out of hiding and surround the man and woman, who then levitate to face one another. The man’s clothes are suddenly replaced so that he matches the group.
Then, a giant golden egg appears and the cult-like group starts carrying it somewhere, while doing these strange, gyrating movements. The group arrives with the egg at a giant lake of gravy. The woman then carries the man into the lake of gravy and submerges him. When she pulls him back up, he’s a giant chicken tender. She holds him above her head, and the group stomps and cheers in preparation for their next meal.
Co-host Keith Malinak says it “feels like a demonic ritual.”
On top of that, there seems to be an insinuation that the meat the restaurant uses “is human.”
“You dipped a human being in gravy, and he became a piece of fried chicken. ... Wow is that weird,” says Pat in complete disbelief. “That was maybe the king of weird.”
“That was insane; that was evil; that was demonic,” says Keith. “They’re not even hiding anymore.”
To see the commercial, watch the clip above.
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Most Kansas lawmakers side against the devil, pass resolution denouncing satanists' 'Black Mass'
The Kansas state House voted 101-15 on Thursday in support of a resolution denouncing the satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place outside the state Capitol on March 28.
This denunciation, although an important signal to Kansans and the nation, is not law and does not amount to a cancellation of the event. In fact, the satanists still intend to flock to the state grounds and to flout Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly's directive to remain outside the Capitol building.
However, the Satanic Grotto's planned desecration of the Eucharist is now in doubt, given recent indications that the satanists may not actually be in possession of a consecrated host as well as new guidelines adopted for use of the Capitol grounds by the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council, which would make the unlawful possession of a consecrated host grounds for removal.
It appears, therefore, that the satanists' planned "Black Mass" might end up being nothing more than insubstantial anti-Catholic theater exemplifying their bigotry and uniting lawmakers from both parties, Christians from various denominations, and even some nonbelievers in affirming the state's "identity as one nation under God."
Former Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), who has been involved in the efforts to prevent a real Black Mass from taking place at the state Capitol, told Blaze News that the satanists' efforts to provoke Catholics and draw attention to themselves may serve as "spiritual kick in the pants to Christians across Kansas," prompting them to "say, 'Hey, wait a minute — this our state too.'"
Lawsuit
The Satanic Grotto, a leftist anti-Christian hate group that appears to be little more than an unpolished knockoff of the Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple, received a permit to hold a "Black Mass" at the Kansas Capitol building in Topeka on March 28.
The group's event listing states that the group will "dedicate the grounds and our legislature to the glory of Satan" and notes further that members "will be performing rites to the black mass and indulging in sacrilegious blaspheme [sic]."
Michael Stewart, the leader of the anti-Christian hate group, told KSNT-TV that he would lead the "Black Mass," noting that he would "heavily lean into the four blasphemies, kind of representing an alternate to the stations of the cross."
The satanists are expected to break crucifixes, tear up at least one Bible, and mock Catholics' central sacrament — intended actions Stewart confirmed in a Wednesday op-ed. A flyer for the event further indicates that as part of their "theuraputic [sic] blesphemy [sic]," the satanists will denounce Christ, desecrate the Eucharist, and corrupt "the Blood."
'God takes Satan to court. Satan wins.'
There has been intense backlash, particularly from Catholic groups in the state who were led to believe by self-identified members of the Grotto that the group had stolen a consecrated host and sought to "use its desecration to manifest the link between Satan and the capital [sic] building."
In addition to social media posts, Chuck Weber, the executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference — a group that leads public policy advocacy efforts on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Kansas — stated in a sworn statement that Stewart told him in a March 8 phone call that he was in possession of one or more consecrated hosts.
In addition to encouraging prayer, inviting the faithful to attended a Eucharistic Holy Hour at a church near the statehouse on March 28, and calling for state officials to cancel the event, the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City filed a lawsuit demanding the return of consecrated hosts the satanists suggested they had stolen.
It is the conviction of the Catholic Church that "at the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ's Body and Blood." The archdiocese noted that given the highest importance of the consecrated host and wine to Catholics, any attempt to "desecrate or attempt to destroy or otherwise harm these items is a grave concern to Archbishop [Joseph] Naumann, the Catholic Church, and countless of the Catholic faithful."
Archbishop Naumann demanded resolution through a civil jury trial.
The Leavenworth County District Court dismissed the lawsuit Thursday, prompting the Grotto to state on Facebook, "God takes Satan to court. Satan wins."
Stewart told WIBW-TV that the supposed hosts he has in his possession were not obtained by criminal means.
"We didn't do it," Stewart said, referring to the allegation that he or his compatriots stole consecrated hosts.
Stewart suggested to the Oklahoma Voice that his anti-Christian hate group has its own consecration rituals and will mockingly "consecrate" some unleavened wafers purchased online.
"I find it very entertaining that [Archbishop Naumann] is convinced that I have Jesus trapped in a cracker and he would take it to court," said Stewart.
The Satanic Grotto similarly did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News. The anti-Christian hate group did, however previously provide this response: "The Satanic Grotto says get f**ked blaze news."
Voting against the devil
Gov. Kelly appeared reluctant early on to condemn the planned event or acknowledge the Grotto as bigots; however, she indicated on March 12 that in order to "keep the statehouse open and accessible to the public while ensuring all necessary health and safety regulations are enforced," the group's anti-Christian demonstration would have to take place outside.
The satanists maintain that they will enter the state Capitol building to perform their dark ritual, even if that means they'll end up in handcuffs.
The governor's office did not respond to a request for comment.
Huelskamp told Blaze News that like Gov. Kelly's "really weak" response to the "Black Mass," the response from the Kansas legislature was also "pretty timid."
"The general philosophy was, 'Well, if we ignore evil, it will go away,'" said Huelskamp. "But what I've seen in the last couple days — I've been in touch with a lot of legislators who are really stepping up, saying, 'You know what? We need to take a stand on this.' And they have."
Kansas House Resolution 6016 states that the "planned satanic worship ritual is an explicit act of anti-Catholic bigotry and an affront to all Christians. It blasphemes our shared values of faith, decency, and respect that strengthen our communities."
Those who voted for the resolution affirmed that they denounced "the planned satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place on the grounds of the people's house, the Kansas state Capitol grounds, on March 28, 2025, as a despicable, blasphemous, and offensive sacrilege to not only Catholics but all people of goodwill, and it runs contrary to the spiritual heritage of this state and nation."
"We call upon all Kansans to promote unity, mutual respect, and the values that uphold our identity as one nation under God," added the resolution.
The resolution passed in a bipartisan 101-15 vote.
While some Democrats voted for the resolution, all 15 state legislators who voted against denouncing the satanic ritual were Democrats, namely Reps. Wanda Paige, John Carmichael, Ford Carr, Jo Ella Hoye, Heather Meyer, Silas Miller, Brooklynne Mosley, Melissa Oropeza, Dan Osman, Jarrod Ousley, Susan Ruiz, Alexis Simmons, Lindsay Vaughn, Valdenia Winn, and Rui Xu.
The Kansas Catholic Conference stated, "We are shocked and appalled that 15 Democrats voted NO," adding, "Anti-Catholic bigotry is alive and well in Kansas."
'It's the same arguments that the pro-KKK people had in the 1920s.'
Kansas state Rep. Sean Tarwater, a practicing Catholic, said, "What eats at me the most is that I fear for the souls of those that are going to be involved with this Black Mass, and especially for those that are supporting the Black Mass in this room and on that committee," reported the Kansas Reflector.
Huelskamp told Blaze News that "we're still looking for a little more from the legislature," underscoring that the matter at hand is plainly a battle between good and evil.
Huelskamp, a Catholic with four adopted black children, noted that Kansas has a really proud history of repelling bigots, highlighting the battle that made it the first state in the union to ban the Ku Klux Klan.
"In the 1920s — 100 years ago — the KKK tried to make a big entrance into Kansas. There was a significant political battle," said the former congressman. "They refused to recognize the KKK and they kicked them out of the state."
"All of the arguments of the left on this, on the satanists, it's the same arguments that the pro-KKK people had in the 1920s. 'Hey, it's free speech.' 'Let them come in, free to organize.' Eventually, the State of Kansas — I think the '24 election — said, 'No. We will not let the KKK in the state,'" continued Huelskamp. "I mean, at that time, there were rallies of 50,000 Kansans that were KKK supporters demanding recognition by the state."
"I'm still upset the [Kansas] secretary of state, Scott Schwab, recognized the satanists when he gave them nonprofit status," said Huelskamp. "We might like to go back and re-examine whether any group, you know, any hate group just receives automatic recognition by the State of Kansas. So 100 years ago, we said the KKK didn't qualify. So how did the satanists qualify? It's obviously a hate group in my books."
Catholics and Christians from other denominations plan to protest the "Black Mass."
TFP Student Action has, for instance, invited counterprotesters to attend a rosary rally of reparation at the south side of the Kansas state Capitol building at 10:15 a.m. on March 28.
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