{"id":7341,"date":"2003-10-30T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/10\/30\/satanism-lecture-disappoints-students\/"},"modified":"2003-10-30T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-30T21:39:04","slug":"satanism-lecture-disappoints-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/10\/satanism-lecture-disappoints-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Satanism lecture disappoints students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Students looking for an objective talk about devil worship Wednesday night were surprised by Christian music and pamphlets about the dark side of Halloween. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Campus Missions International sponsored its seventh annual &#8220;Unveiling the Darkness,&#8221; a presentation on the evils of Satanism, Wicca and the occult that was held at the Holmes Student Center&rsquo;s Carl Sandburg Auditorium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Fliers distributed around campus contained no mention of the Christian nature of the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">A few hundred attendees watched a video called &#8220;Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism&#8221; and listened to John Miller, a former occultist, speak about his experiences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Tim King, a freshman management major, said he attended &#8220;Unveiling the Darkness&#8221; because he saw a flier that looked interesting. He didn&rsquo;t know the event was put on by Campus Missions International. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Susana Rodriguez, a sophomore theater arts major, left soon after the speech began. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;I thought it would be an informational talk on Wicca,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&rsquo;t want to come here to listen to someone bash another religion.&#8221;<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.star.niu.edu\/campus\/articles\/103003-satanism.asp\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students looking for an objective talk about devil worship Wednesday night were surprised by Christian music and pamphlets about the dark side of Halloween. Campus Missions International sponsored its seventh&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}