If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of
devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
Now, sir," said he, "though I do not acknowledge your religion, or you mine, yet we would be glad to see the devil's servants and the subjects of his kingdom taught to know religion; and that they might, at least, hear of God and a Redeemer, and the resurrection, and of a future state--things which we all believe; that they might, at least, be so much nearer coming into the bosom of the true Church than they are now in the public profession of idolatry and
devil-worship."
I have met him several times at Benares, and also at Buddh Gaya, to interrogate him on releegious points and
devil-worship. He is pure agnostic - same as me.'
Now,
devil-worship is a perfectly genuine religion."
It differs from most other forms of
devil-worship and human sacrifice in the fact that the blood is not shed formally on the altar, but by a sort of assassination among the crowd.
I wondered, and two men at a Mathew Street cafe who had worked at the Cavern told me that the warehouse the club was located in had been built on the site of a strange underground temple created by the man Mathew Street is named after - Mathew Pluckington, an incredibly successful and immensely wealthy Victorian merchant who was said to have dabbled with
Devil-worship to prosper in his business dealings.
Christianity has borrowed heavily from most Pagan rituals, but then considering Paganism (again, not meaning
devil-worship as many people assume) was the very first form of organised religion, this doesn't seem that odd.
"Some religious extremists will label Vodou as
devil-worship.