San Antonio Christians ask city to halt King William's Krampus parade
Pastors warned Friday that the German-inspired holiday event would usher in 'perversions,' 'disasters' and open a demonic portal.
Roughly 30 people from evangelical churches gathered in front of City Hall Friday to ask local officials to shut down San Antonio's first Krampus Parade, an event they denounced as "demonic" and sure to bring disaster.
"We're here to educate the community of what Krampus is and what the leadership of the King William district is doing, and what they're inviting," said Mark Lugo, pastor of SA Impact Ministries and San Antonio director of At His Feet Ministries. "We're standing as spiritual leaders that oversee this city, and we're saying they're opening a demonic realm in San Antonio."
They warned that the festival would invite calamity and lead San Antonio away from its roots as a "Christian city." At least two speakers cited natural disasters that struck Brazil after a parade there that they alleged celebrated demonic forces. Pressed for more information on the incident, they said the Brazilian parade wasn't Krampus-related, and they were unable to offer additional details.
One speaker also blamed Mardi Gras in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina and similar celebrations for hurricanes and power outages in Puerto Rico. Multiple speakers argued the Krampus parade would "open up a portal" and invite death and destruction upon San Antonio.
"This is real; you're going to open up a window," said David Rodriguez of People's House Church. "At the end [of the Krampus Parade] — I read the article — they're going to go to the park and do incantations and spells with the curanderos and the witchdoctors for practicing witchcraft. We want to warn your family that your sons and daughters will turn to pornography and perversion, incest, rape, murder — that's what it's all about."
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Pastors warned Friday that the German-inspired holiday event would usher in 'perversions,' 'disasters' and open a demonic portal.
Roughly 30 people from evangelical churches gathered in front of City Hall Friday to ask local officials to shut down San Antonio's first Krampus Parade, an event they denounced as "demonic" and sure to bring disaster.
"We're here to educate the community of what Krampus is and what the leadership of the King William district is doing, and what they're inviting," said Mark Lugo, pastor of SA Impact Ministries and San Antonio director of At His Feet Ministries. "We're standing as spiritual leaders that oversee this city, and we're saying they're opening a demonic realm in San Antonio."
They warned that the festival would invite calamity and lead San Antonio away from its roots as a "Christian city." At least two speakers cited natural disasters that struck Brazil after a parade there that they alleged celebrated demonic forces. Pressed for more information on the incident, they said the Brazilian parade wasn't Krampus-related, and they were unable to offer additional details.
One speaker also blamed Mardi Gras in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina and similar celebrations for hurricanes and power outages in Puerto Rico. Multiple speakers argued the Krampus parade would "open up a portal" and invite death and destruction upon San Antonio.
"This is real; you're going to open up a window," said David Rodriguez of People's House Church. "At the end [of the Krampus Parade] — I read the article — they're going to go to the park and do incantations and spells with the curanderos and the witchdoctors for practicing witchcraft. We want to warn your family that your sons and daughters will turn to pornography and perversion, incest, rape, murder — that's what it's all about."
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
