Why Do Many Christians Still Literally Believe in Demons and Satan? (Alternet article)
Excerpt follows. The whole thing is here and is well worth a read. (I had a hard time choosing excerpted paragraphs because the whole thing is so good.)
Hundred of years after the scientific revolution, the Catholic church still subscribes to the belief that the cosmos is swarming with evil spirits.
By Adam Lee
May 27, 2014 | If there's anywhere in the U.S. where you'd expect aggressively conservative, domineering religion to be a relic of the past, it's tolerant and culturally liberal Massachusetts. But even in that blue enclave, the theocratic impulse is still surprisingly powerful. We found this out when a student group at Harvard University, the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club, ignited a furor by announcing that they were planning an educational program of ceremonies from different belief systems around the world, and that one of these ceremonies, in partnership with the New York-based Satanic Temple, was going to be a Satanist black mass.
Because this is an easy mistake to make, it should be emphasized that most Satanists don't literally worship the devil. They're atheists who treat the figure of Satan as an inspiring piece of mythology, a symbol of individual freedom and resistance to oppressive orthodoxy. (One of their current projects is a campaign to end corporal punishment of children in schools.) And, it has to be said, there's also an element of conscious satire in Satanism, a cheeky attempt to shock the easily shocked.
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But what drew the most outrage is that, in a true black mass—to the extent that such a thing exists, and isn't just the invention of medieval heresy hunters—there's a prop representing a Eucharist wafer that's symbolically desecrated, perhaps stepped on. A rumor, subsequently denied by the Satanists, that they'd be using a real consecrated wafer drove Catholics to new heights of frenzy. Some commenters urged that the Satanists be arrested and charged with hate crimes (I hate to break it to these people, but holding a religious ceremony that offends members of other religions is not actually a crime in America). Another proposed a Mission: Impossible-type commando raid on the Satanists' meeting place to rescue the imperiled wafer from harm.
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And the Harvard case is far from an anomaly. As another recent story shows, the Boston believers who spurred this Satanic panic were quite possibly getting encouragement from the very top. Specifically, the pontiff himself—the allegedly progressive and kindly Pope Francis—is pushing a major resurgence of belief in a literal Satan and literal demonic possession. Before he became pope, when he was the Argentinian archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, he called same-sex marriage "a move by the Father of Lies," and subsequent evidence suggests he didn't mean it metaphorically.
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OMG, I am crying! Not sure if that is tongue-in-cheek or if someone actually seriously proposed that, but I am in tears.
The meme you posted or the poster who posted the 24/6 comic
WOW 
Just what this thread needed, more laughs.
but you should pray to God in spite of that plan, because, uh ...
I got nuthin. 
more of them don't identify Lucifer as being the good guy.
I mean think about it, all the horrible stuff is done by god, and there Lucifer is offering to help people. The story of genesis itself is about him giving knowledge to adam and eve, and for the crime of knowledge they got kicked out.
That, and then there is this:
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Ain't that the truth.
I think this one is my favorite:
Its hard to only pick out a few
