Birthdays - The Most Important Satanic Holiday
Today’s my birthday and it’s been around a year since I first read The Satanic Bible . I have some personal history with birthdays. As I’ve mentioned in my very first blog entry, my mom tried raising me as a Jehovah’s Witness (with no success, obviously; the complete opposite. Not her fault, though. Kind of). I remember all those sermons I heard over the years that discussed birthdays and why the Witnesses were vehemently against them. During the first couple of years in the Kingdom Hall, it didn’t make sense to me; I just thought this religion was run by prudes and that God was some boring asshole who didn’t want people to have fun. I remember being invited to birthdays by friends and classmates and I’d have to decline because (my mom’s) religion forbade birthdays. I was denied the chance to live like a normal person. If you want to hear something sad, I didn't have my first official birthday celebration until I was 21. A coworker had to sneak me away for the day for this.