Today's Sermon

It's beginning to look a lot like Satanmas!

Satan's Grotto stunt in bad taste, warns Shadowmancer author

Mark Branagan

Best-selling author and retired vicar Graham Taylor yesterday accused a Yorkshire tourist attraction of making a mockery of Christmas by opening a "Satan's Grotto", which he condemned as being in very bad taste.

Mr Taylor – author of Shadowmancer – said he was "outraged" by the display at York Dungeon which replaces the traditional Santa with a dark, cloaked figure, with a red face and horns.

Sprawling on a throne, Satan will be handing out gifts such as severed fingers and other body parts, and practical jokes. He will wish revellers a Horrible Christmas and present them with a scroll to sign their souls away.

Elves impaled on spikes or with their heads chopped off, and robins roasting over an open fire will also greet visitors to the Clifford Street attraction, while Santa himself boils in a witch's cauldron.

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Mr Taylor is author of two worldwide best-sellers on the dangers of the occult, Shadowmancer, which is to be filmed by Universal Studios, and Wormwood. He said: "The grotto is in very bad taste. Satanism is a very real thing."
Satan's Grotto will be open for business from December 13 to 16 inclusive and is described by the Dungeon as a sideswipe at the Christmas celebrations, providing an alternative to the traditional grotto.

"We're not out to offend anyone, just to provide some welcome relief from an experience many people find even scarier than anything we have here at the Dungeon," said Dungeon boss Helen Douglas.
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Why the outrage?

Everyone knows that you can't spell SANTA without the letters S*A*T*A*N.

Satan's Grotto in Yorkshire seems pretty lame to me, but what do I know?

I'm still stuck on the fact that the God of Abraham either wasn't able to destroy Lucifer in the first place or chose not to.

Hm. The rules of logic dictate that there is, indeed, something miraculous afoot:

Jesus was born on Christmas and died on Easter.

What are the odds in that happening? That's a miracle in my book!

And on both days, kids get candy.


Thus Endeth Today's Sermon.

Go forth and google "yin and yang."