LOL is pro-Satan code

This reportedly viral message generated a great thread on Reddit that I enjoyed while listening to the music of Knights In Satan's Service.

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GawainLavers

ORLY?
- Brainspore
  
  Orgies Reveal Lucifer’s Yin-yang?
  - Felton / Moderator
    
    LMAO! (Lucifer Makes Awesome Omelettes)
  - GawainLavers
    
    SRSLY?
    - Brainspore
      
      Satan Really, Seriously Likes You?
      - Cowicide
        
        Nah, Satan LOVES you…
        
        Say.. Ton… Loves… You… Say.. Ton… Loves… You…
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tXRC5UPWDk4#t=60s
    - CaptainPedge
      
      Satan Really Sounds Like Yana
    - http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch
      
      Satan Requires Sexy Little Y-fronts
    - Felton / Moderator
      
      School Rule: Sign Lucifer’s Yearbook!
- http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch
  
  Oh, Righteous Lucifer, Yippee!
  
  It’s like something you would say if you bumped into Him on the street, or if He called you up out of the blue on the phone.
CaptainPedge

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/13jfy3/i_seriously_hope_this_guy_is_kidding/
Link to the English language version of reddit
- David Pescovitz
  
  Thanks!
Brainspore

Funny that the message begins with BEWARE, since that acronym actually stands for “Beelzebub, Eternally Watching And Really Evil.”
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

BOINGBOING– be our imp: naughty, gloriously beneficent orc in night gown.

oh yeah i’m good at this.
dmc10

LMAO !!! (Love Mighty Awesome Odin!!!)
http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose

LOL

Shit, someone had to post it.
http://profile.yahoo.com/YWLT3G5L2DXUXFQY6RPLLUCZUY Ralph

WWJD?
- dmc10
  
  What would Judas do? :)
- Lupus_Yonderboy
  
  Who wants Jack Daniels?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

Someone better tell David Mitchell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_x5cfdwP98
http://doran.pacifist.net/ Doran

Reminds me of when I was in (a Christian) grade school and they had a special presentation of how the peace sign was an upside-down broken cross. From then on the peace symbol was banned from the school.
- TheOven
  
  That happened to me – St. Peter’s cross they called it. I pointed out it was a doves foot in a tear drop. They didn’t like that much.
- Andrew Singleton
  
  The… Fork. An upside-down Broken Cross? Christ Almighty. Anything to crack down on those dirty filthy hippies and their preaching of equality and love huh?
- Ms. Anne Thrope
  
  And let’s not forget that KISS stands for Knights/Kids In Satan’s Service… This is as ludicrous as the “controversy” over the use of “picnic”.
Roose_Bolton

OMG
- GawainLavers
  
  Obey Mephistopheles’ Grandeur!
vonbobo

“Share this advice to Christians”

Why should only Christians be made aware of this? Sounds exclusionary, like a Satan trick.
Mitchell Glaser

And you know that there are people who will buy into this bullshit and slap their children for doing it.
Tchoutoye

CHRIST:
Christianity’s Hateful Rhetoric Is Satan’s Tool
- Andrew Singleton
  
  That’s one I can get behind. Since for all intent and purpose. Jesus was a hippie. Peace. Love. Turn away from the cycle of violence.
http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius

ROFL.
- GawainLavers
  
  Regent of Fire and Lies!
- Guest
  
  Reign, Our Father: Lucifer!
- Jen Onymous
  
  Ragnarok Or Florida!
Tchoutoye

GOD:
Good Ol’ Devil
annoyingmouse

I remember back in 99 (approx. a million years ago in internet communication history) when I first went to university “LOL” coming up in conversation with some Northern Irish flatmates who wouldn’t use it because of an association with Ulster loyalist/orange lodge terminology (which struck me as slightly odd at the time since those particular guys seemed keen on going on about their loyalist inclinations at every opportunity). To be honest, I hadn’t thought about it again until reading this. I just done a search (though obviously it’s pretty hard to google anything with “lol” in it) and wikipedia does include LOL as an acronym for “Loyal Orange Lodge” but I’ve never heard of anybody choosing not to use for this reason since then. Anybody else heard of this one?
franko

“lucifer OUR lord”?
seems a little sad, doesn’t it? i mean, they aren’t saying lucifer’s THE lord, just that he’s THEIR lord.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Shouldn’t it be Lucifer Our Lightbringer anyway?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Eatme-Completely/100003303282508 Eatme Completely

Just as cleanliness is next to Godliness, lunacy is next to insanity. There is no end to the idiotic nonsense this kind of people will believe. I was once a member of the SCA, the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group where people who didn’t fit in normal life would dress up like Dark Ages knights and put on silly recreations of medieval tournaments. We kept having problems with this one dumbass church group who kept coming by the park and trying to disrupt our weekend practice sessions, yelling that they knew the “truth” – that SCA “really” meant Secret Communist Army, and we were practicing in disguise so we would be ready to fight for the Communist Party in the riots that would happen when civil war broke out because Obama tried to invite the UN to take over our government.
- Lupus_Yonderboy
  
  LOLWUT? I’ve talked a lot of smack about the SCA over the years but that’s something that I’ve never heard. Pretty awesome, though – you all should have rolled with it. Bright red armor, use a hammer as your primary weapon with a sickle as your backup, etc.
- http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog
  
  Was this in Beaumont TX by any chance? I heard that a group there was dis-invited from a public school assembly because of the supposed occult connotations.
- Shinkuhadoken
  
  that SCA “really” meant Secret Communist Army, and we were practicing in disguise so we would be ready to fight for the Communist Party in the riots that would happen when civil war broke out because Obama tried to invite the UN to take over our government.
  
  A judge in Lubbock, TX is also on to you and has prepared the police department with APCs for civil war against Obama’s UN army now that he has been re-elected president. He’s totally cereal, too.
  
  http://www.wbtv.com/story/19349515/judge-obama-re-election-would-lead-to-revolt-civil-war
AquaDad18

I remember when I was in junior high another kid told me that AC/DC meant Anti-Christ/Devil’s Child. Neat. And you could see the devil on some of Rush’s album covers. Rush? What a bunch of satanists those guys turned out to be.
This is in the day when you could spin your records (vinyl as they say now) backwards and hear satanic messages from bands like E.L.O.
Hahaha, 30 years ago…cute.
- AquaDad18
  
  ELO…Evil Loves Obituaries…
- http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog
  
  C’mon, you know that’s BS. It’s “After Christ / Devil Comes”.
  
  Hot Rokken
- niktemadur
  
  Don’t forget KISS: Knights In Service of Satan, or Kings In Service of Satan, depending on who you heard it from.
  
  Since these paranoiac christians see Satan everywhere, seems they’re carrying Him piggyback everywhere they go, I guess everybody needs their scary campfire stories, adjusting the narratives depending on your affiliations.
  
  But for the particular evangelical posture that “everything is satanic except Perry Como and Lawrence Welk”, let’s call it a seventies meme that refused to go away, I’m pointing the finger (middle one) not at the Chick tracts, but at his comic The Crusaders.
- Gerard Cronin
  
  Running Under Satan’s House
bwcbwc

Wow, I never knew. I’m afraid to ask what ROTFLMAO means to these guys. Register Online to find Lucifer’s Mad Anal Orgy?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  That’s all there is to it? I’ve wasted decades redrawing that damn circle over and over.
sburns54

Jeez, I’ve made a point of never typing LOL and now I’m gonna have to.
eviladrian

My wife has an aunt who thinks LOL stands for “Lots Of Love” and signs off all her emails with it.

“Uncle Jonty passed away last week – LOL”
- Boundegar
  
  No she doesn’t. Urban legend.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Please to explain why we get occasional e-mails complaining that we shouldn’t allow commenters to say ‘FTW’ because it means “Fuck The World’.
  - http://twitter.com/markmcan Mark McAndrew
    
    Maybe so, but David Cameron (the British PM) famously did exactly that…
  - Lyle Hopwood
    
    My brother signs his emails “LOL” meaning “Lots of Love” and don’t *think* he’s an urban legend. He seemed pretty solid last time I saw him.
Carl Witthoft

Appropriate for the season – the old warning about what name “Santa” is an anagram of.
- Brainspore
  
  Dont be foold HE WEARS A RED SUIT and SNEAKS IN THROUGH YOUR CHIMNEY (IMPERVIOUS TO FIRE?!?!?) and KNOWS YOUR SINS (NAUGHTY OR NICE!?!?!?) and wants to DISTRACT YOU FROM THE TRUE MEANING OF OUR LORDS BIRTHDAY WITH MATERIAL GOODS!! THERE IS ONLY ONE PATH TO THE LIGHT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST not SATAN(SANTA).
Halloween_Jack

I may as well start writing the “Did you check Snopes yet? No, you did not” response to the first relative of mine who either sends out a chain email or posts this on their Facebook with complete credulity.
Lurking_Grue

LOL!
valiant66

This is an example of a certain kind of Christian behaviour that just makes me sad.

Actually, it’s probably not exclusive to Christians, but that’s the cult I’m most familiar with, so I’ll restrict it to them.

Instead of taking this as an opportunity to claim the terminology and redefine it to their own purposes, they’d rather bury their heads in the sand and scream about the sky falling.

Rather than attempting to redefine LOL as something positive, such as to mean “Love Our Lord” (in a christian kind of way, of course), they decide someone else has already defined as something negative and thus the only response is to ban it. Their first response is fear and flight, followed by trying to force others to believe as they do.

I’d have so much more respect for those Christians if they took that approach less often.

Sad.
http://twitter.com/muddi900 muddi900

Why would you link to r/atheism. WHY?
jhertzli

The Hebrew equivalent of “W” is vav, the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. That means the WWW is can only be 666…