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This year’s ‘Burning Man’ was full-on pagan worship
Burning Man is a week-long event that describes itself as being focused on “community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance” that’s held annually out West in the desert.
The event centers around the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy that is referred to as the “Man," and Allie Beth Stuckey is calling it what it is: pagan worship.
“It’s about self-expression, self-reliance, self-discovery, self-fulfillment, self-liberation, and even self-worship,” Stuckey says. “Ultimately, that’s what all paganism is.”
“It’s no surprise that this event has grown in popularity over the years. It really is just a celebration of the carnal celebration of sex, drugs, perversion,” she continues, noting that attendees adopt “new names,” lay their burdens on the wooden effigy, and eliminate monetary transactions on the philosophy of shared resources when they enter the event.
“This is like an upside-down world of Christianity, that when we come into Christianity, we also become new creations, and we take on an easy yoke and a light burden when we follow the way of Christ, and we cast all of our cares upon the Lord because he cares for us,” Stuckey explains.
“This is a cheap and pagan imitation of that because it is pretending to offer its attendees freedom, while really attaching them and bounding them to the heavy burden and slavery of sin,” she adds.
Burning Man holds sessions that you can participate in like a rope-bondage suspension, orgies, marriages, crafting, and getting branded.
“You can get branded, you know, like a cow,” Stuckey says, shocked. “These people so badly want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, they want to be marked for something more, they want something indelible on them and even in their hearts and souls.”
“And they are looking for all of that in the wrong place, of course, which is exactly what Satan does,” she adds.
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Kat Von D on her renunciation of paganism: 'I just want Jesus'
In case you weren’t aware, tattoo artist and TV personality from "LA Ink" Kat Von D has had a spiritual awakening — one that has resulted in her renouncing all paganism and embracing evangelical Christianity.
Recently, she joined Allie Beth Stuckey on "Relatable" to tell the story behind her radical transformation.
While this may surprise many, Von D was “born in a literal third world country” to “missionary Christians,” and yet that time “was one of the most abundant times” in her life, she says.
However, despite being raised “with God in [her] household” and reading "the Bible twice” in her early teens, Von D “ended up straying.”
“I ended up being a pretty wild teenager and leaving home at the age of 14 ... and putting my parents through a literal hell,” she told Allie.
After being sent to what she calls “a lockdown facility” and “boarding school” around age 16, Von D started drinking to cope with the trauma, which she says was “the beginning of [her] addiction.”
By age 21, Von D, who was already starring in "Miami Ink," had become “a full-blown alcoholic” and was “introduced to drugs.”
After years of struggling with addiction, she eventually got clean and started “wanting to fix" herself, which led to the discovery of “New Age stuff.” However, she was “never in a cult,” “never a witch,” and “definitely not a satanist,” despite what the rumors say.
“I was trying to find answers in the wrong places,” she said, and while “transcendental meditation,” seeking an obscure “higher power,” and reciting a “mantra” helped for a while, these practices were “short-lived Band-Aids on a sinking ship.”
Eventually, she threw away all her “self-help” books — everything from witchcraft books to texts on meditation and yoga.
“Breathing techniques,” “spell work,” and “nature worship ... they're just crutches; they're not really my answer,” Von D said. “I just want Jesus.”
To hear how Kat Von D came to renounce paganism in exchange for Jesus, watch the video below.
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