posted on Jul, 27 2003 @ 01:38 AM
The writer was the man who founded the most famous public Satanist organization in America (the Church of Satan founded in 1966), Anton LaVey. He is
also the author of a number of other books including "The Satanic Bible."
In all seriousness, LaVey continues to promote the religious significance of television, saying that:
... The birth of TV was a magical event foreshadowing its satanic significance. The first commercial broadcast was aired on Walpurgisnacht, April
30th, 1939, at the New York World's Fair. Since then, TV's infiltration has been so gradual, so complete that no one even noticed. People don't
need to go to church any more; they get their morality plays on television.2
LaVey compares satellite dishes and antennas to church-top crosses and notes that TV has become, in effect, the major religion of the masses, even
calling the television set the Satanic family altar.