Sam Smith and Satan: The Meaning Behind the Devil-Worship

I won’t soon forget the image of Sam Smith, a portly woman, walking around in heels and gyrating at the Grammy Awards.

It is a haunting image that I cannot forget, no matter how hard I try to erase it from my mind. Even though my dreams and waking hours are filled with good intentions, they continue to plague me night after night.

It is interesting that the transgender British pop star wore the garb of “sexy” Satan has only made the task more difficult. I’m getting close to needing professional help. (But I don’t know to whom I should go: an exorcist. A psychologist? YouTube comments?

Smith is dressed in a top hat and pointed devil horns, and wields a bedazzled Scepter. Smith moves his hips and shakes the scepter so as to not be copied in polite society.

Needless to state, I was scarred.

To perform the most recent hit song of the singer. “Unholy” Smith attempts to make Smith the living embodiment of this title, but Smith is the one who sang the song that embraces a nonbinary persona. “full devil” at the Grammys. Smith’s outfit was the same color as President Biden’s Independence Day Speech from Philadelphia.

Is the red background from Joe Biden’s rant tonight indicative of a red wave for the midterm election?

That was an excellent idea for Biden and the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/pVYKI7OCtH

— Ed LaRose (@metaphorsbwithu) September 2, 2022

Smith wore high-heeled boots and unflatteringly tight latex. “onesie,” You can also wear a hat made with devil horns. To complete the look, add a choker necklace.

Smith was surrounded by a group of dancers who were similarly dressed. Kim Petras (trans woman), with whom Smith performed the song was dressed in a slightly feminine devil costume.

She was also kept in a cage for an undisclosed reason.

For what it’s value, the lyrics of the song aren’t explicitly Luciferian. They describe the infidelity and lust of a married man, who seeks out, without the knowledge or consent of his wife, an evening tryst.

“Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop, doing something unholy.”

Right.

As a listener, the song was dull and redundant. The song is lacking in vocals, but the vocals are adequate to make up for it.

However, as a viewer, it felt almost like I was being inducted into some phallus-worshiping Satanic death temple. I felt as if I were being dragged down to the ninth and final circle of Hell–to which Judas himself rushed from the jaws of Satan to open the gates.

As a result of Smith’s horrible performance, many people asked me the same question: Why is Smith so evil?

Yes, the devil! All of it can be reduced to Milton’s misinterpretation, I believe.

Quite a leap!–you might cry out, as I jump from Sam Smith to John Milton– from the pit of profanity to the summit of the divine.

John Milton, aside from Shakespeare, is the greatest English-language writer. His poetry is beautiful, his polemics are powerful, and his crowning achievement, Paradise Lost (12-book epic), eclipses Dante’s Inferno or Virgil’s Aeneid in terms of its beauty, scope, and grandeur.

It’s only Homer’s twin masterpieces that surpass it. “The Iliad” “The Odyssey” It comes in at a very close third.

The plot of “Paradise Lost” The story is straightforward enough: it is a poetic retelling a few chapters from Genesis. In media res, Satan plans to exact his revenge on God’s most noble creation on Earth, having been expelled from Heaven’s kingdom.

He proceeds to recount his grievances with the Almighty, his rebellious uprising, his conflict with Jesus, his inglorious fall and his confinement to Hell–the grim underworld over which he’s now sovereign. He plans to climb out of Hell and offer illicit fruit to Eve and Adam.

It is testament to Milton’s brilliance and ability as a writer that many influential thinkers of the 19th century began to view Satan, not God, as the work’s true hero.

This was not the author’s intention. In his orthodox opinion, Satan was nothing more than an execrable fiend. Based on the evidence in his writings, Milton was as God fearing and devout a Puritan that one could hope.

In some ways, he was more pious than the Pope.

Yet, reading is difficult. “Paradise Lost,” It is important not to become obsessed with Milton’s Satan. It doesn’t matter what faith you have, or your strength, it’s a character that will entice you.

In the 19th century, one such thought leader was Percy Bysshe Shelley. Like Milton, Shelley was a smart student with a pen that was as sharp as his mind.

However, he was not like Milton and was an outspoken atheist who sought controversy at every opportunity.

He wrote a 12-page essay while at Oxford. “The Necessity of Atheism,” A massive scandal quickly erupted over this. His title alone was enough for him to be expelled from this prestigious institution. This was a subversive work that was highly critical of church. “The Necessity of Atheism” For a poet just twenty-years old, it was remarkably mature.

It was also intolerantly transgressive, and it was sufficient grounds to exile fearless apostate.

Shelley’s most famous prose work was written later in his life. “A Defense of Poetry,” In which his youthful rashness atheism is preserved. Shelley explains in the Defense why Satan should be considered the true hero of Paradise Lost.

According to Shelley

“Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost. It is a mistake to suppose that he could ever have been intended for the popular personification of evil”.

And finally, the conclusion:

“Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture, is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy”.

“Milton has so far violated the popular creed as to have alleged no superiority of moral virtue to his God over his Devil. And this bold neglect of a direct moral purpose is the most decisive proof of the supremacy of Milton’s genius”.

Shelley voiced concern about a growing sentiment among Romantics in these shocking passages (against whom, to be fair, Milton would’ve vigorously argued back).

God was no longer their title because of scientific advancements and technological advances. “Creator of the universe.” He claimed to be much more feeble than that. “Benefactor of mankind”They did not feel Him worthy of such a position. Slowly, God was removed historical and theological drama.

He was eventually led from the stage, bit by bit. He was taken behind the curtain and was then cast in the dustbin along with many other unreal Olympian tyrants, the petty Pagan idols to whom no educated person believed.

In his place arose Satan–the brave, magnificent, energetic, unbowed, morally superior being to whose heroic likeness we could all now aspire. He would become the character to whom no higher law would apply, except those he chose to impose.

He believed that truth was only his own. He made his own truth. (Sound familiar? (Sound familiar? “spoke his own truth” He spoke incessantly and repeatedly about him “lived experience”). He set his own rules and made his own decisions. He was the center of the universe.
Isn’t this the exact image Smith, upon his descent into devilry portraying?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (an English poet) planted the seeds for Devil-worship in the 19th Century.

One more Englishman, Sam Smith, lives in the twenty first century and is now looking for their fruit.

Daniel Finneran describes himself as a journalist/conversationalist. His work, including podcasts, videos and sleep meditations, can be found at finneranswake.com pneumameditations.com. His Twitter account has five followers. @DanielEFinneran. He will answer all your questions.

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