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Can’t Make This Up “‘Hell to Pay': Church of Satan Mourns Arson”
Posted on 1/17/21 at 4:42 am
Posted on 1/17/21 at 4:42 am
Members of the Church of Satan are grieving the destruction of a historic “Halloween House” north of New York City that authorities say was set ablaze by an unidentified arsonist.
Surveillance footage showed a man walking up to the house after 5am on Thursday with two gas cans, splashing liquid on the front porch and igniting it. Two people escaped the house unharmed, authorities said.
Peter H Gilmore, high priest of the Church of Satan, paid tribute in a “requiem” to the house and its former owner, Joe “Netherworld” Mendillo, a church member and “dark side Martha Stewart” who died last year.
“Joe’s legacy will live on, even though the extraordinary home he so carefully cultivated has been destroyed through the hateful act of some deeply disturbed individual,” Gilmore said in the statement, which the Church of Satan sent to the Guardian via Twitter.
“There is melancholy poetry to the thought that the ashes of Magister Netherworld himself, stored in his haunted palace, have now mingled with those of that brooding structure he made a reflection of his essence, melding them for all time, and infusing that unholy plot for eternity.”
Another member of the church likened the arson to a terrorist attack.
Everybody’s in shock and everyone in the neighborhood is worried,” the church member, who goes by the name Isis Vermouth, told the Poughkeepsie newspaper. “Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.
“Now there’s going to be hell to pay.”
The home on South Clinton Street was decorated with devil sculptures. A hearse long sat in its driveway, and a sign over the garage read “Devil’s Garage”. The house served as a gathering place to celebrate Halloween and showcased the beliefs of its longtime former owner.
Gilmore said Mendillo would greet trick or treaters personally and give candy to children who came to his residence, which he said was also known as “the House of Netherworld’. He characterized Mendillo as a “dark side Martha Stewart”.
“Those who took the time to research our religion learned that it is not devil worship but instead an atheist philosophy of individualism, liberty, and self-fulfillment,” he said.
“Whether they felt sympathetic to those views or not, Joe was always gracious and offered people advice on gardening, home restoration and décor, among other topics. He was a knowledgeable man and generous to those requesting his informed perspective.”
Mendillo’s other accomplishments, Gilmore noted, were performing “the first legal same-sex Satanic wedding in New York state” and working “to create a monument to that famed director of weird films, Edward D Wood Jr, who spent part of his youth in Poughkeepsie.”
Chris Petsas, a city councilman, told the Journal the house “was extraordinarily different. It wasn’t your normal home.”
It is unlikely the home will be restored because of the extensive fire damage, said Gilmore, who lives down the block in what church members refer to as Poughkeepsie’s “Witchcraft District”.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Surveillance footage showed a man walking up to the house after 5am on Thursday with two gas cans, splashing liquid on the front porch and igniting it. Two people escaped the house unharmed, authorities said.
Peter H Gilmore, high priest of the Church of Satan, paid tribute in a “requiem” to the house and its former owner, Joe “Netherworld” Mendillo, a church member and “dark side Martha Stewart” who died last year.
“Joe’s legacy will live on, even though the extraordinary home he so carefully cultivated has been destroyed through the hateful act of some deeply disturbed individual,” Gilmore said in the statement, which the Church of Satan sent to the Guardian via Twitter.
“There is melancholy poetry to the thought that the ashes of Magister Netherworld himself, stored in his haunted palace, have now mingled with those of that brooding structure he made a reflection of his essence, melding them for all time, and infusing that unholy plot for eternity.”
Another member of the church likened the arson to a terrorist attack.
Everybody’s in shock and everyone in the neighborhood is worried,” the church member, who goes by the name Isis Vermouth, told the Poughkeepsie newspaper. “Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.
“Now there’s going to be hell to pay.”
The home on South Clinton Street was decorated with devil sculptures. A hearse long sat in its driveway, and a sign over the garage read “Devil’s Garage”. The house served as a gathering place to celebrate Halloween and showcased the beliefs of its longtime former owner.
Gilmore said Mendillo would greet trick or treaters personally and give candy to children who came to his residence, which he said was also known as “the House of Netherworld’. He characterized Mendillo as a “dark side Martha Stewart”.
“Those who took the time to research our religion learned that it is not devil worship but instead an atheist philosophy of individualism, liberty, and self-fulfillment,” he said.
“Whether they felt sympathetic to those views or not, Joe was always gracious and offered people advice on gardening, home restoration and décor, among other topics. He was a knowledgeable man and generous to those requesting his informed perspective.”
Mendillo’s other accomplishments, Gilmore noted, were performing “the first legal same-sex Satanic wedding in New York state” and working “to create a monument to that famed director of weird films, Edward D Wood Jr, who spent part of his youth in Poughkeepsie.”
Chris Petsas, a city councilman, told the Journal the house “was extraordinarily different. It wasn’t your normal home.”
It is unlikely the home will be restored because of the extensive fire damage, said Gilmore, who lives down the block in what church members refer to as Poughkeepsie’s “Witchcraft District”.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 5:20 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
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Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.
Oh no! They satanists are gonna put hexes on the arsonist!
Posted on 1/17/21 at 5:39 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
losers
If a large number of the population were "satanists" they would be the most fervent Christians out there.
If a large number of the population were "satanists" they would be the most fervent Christians out there.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 6:50 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
You can't fool me...that's Ming!
Ming the Merciless!
Ming the Merciless!
Posted on 1/17/21 at 6:58 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
Dude on the far right is definitely high risk for the covid
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:09 am to jaytothen
He’s high risk for everything.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:16 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
What a bunch of nerds.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:21 am to Honest Tune
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He’s high risk for everything.
If that's the devil's henchmen we're going to be all right.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:25 am to PhDoogan
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hexed
I thought they were just atheists.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:28 am to TheFolker
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I thought they were just atheists.
The people that started the tax evasion scheme were atheists. The misfits that joined aren't.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:38 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
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“There is melancholy poetry to the thought that the ashes of Magister Netherworld himself, stored in his haunted palace, have now mingled with those of that brooding structure he made a reflection of his essence, melding them for all time, and infusing that unholy plot for eternity.”
Sounds like the Church of Satan is just a bunch of goth kids that never progressed beyond high school.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:44 am to Ricardo
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If that's the devil's henchmen we're going to be all right
Can you imagine the porn that guy wacks it to?
Posted on 1/17/21 at 7:58 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
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“Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 8:00 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
They are correct. There will be hell to play with their lives if they do not repent and turn to Jesus.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 8:09 am to TchoupitoulasTiger
Pretty sure I see that girl’s nipple on the third pic.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 8:12 am to PhDoogan
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Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.
If they are really atheists wouldn’t they think hexes are bullshite?
Posted on 1/17/21 at 8:38 am to Darth_Vader
I have nothing but pity in my heart for these ‘people’.... I hope they see the errors of their ways, repent, and put their faith in Christ. That is all.
Posted on 1/17/21 at 8:43 am to jaytothen
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Dude on the far right is definitely high risk for the covid
COVID had better get a move on, because right now I'd say diabetes and congestive heart failure are gunning for his fat arse.
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