Satanist to Orthodox Christian ☦️ + Why Witchcraft & New Paganism is Rising w/ Michael Warren Davis

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • Kyle King interviews Michael Warren Davis on his new book, After Christendom. amzn.to/3yUYLMT * This is a clip from the interview on Michael's background with Satanism and why a New Paganism is rising. Michael's journey led him to find Christ which eventually led him to Orthodox Christianity. (Michael was Roman Catholic while on Pints with Aquinas with Matt Fradd a few years ago).
    Books recommended in the episode:
    📘 The Gurus, The Young Man and Elder Paisios (Neo-pagan discovers Orthodox Christianity) amzn.to/4epIWOa
    📕You Are Mine by Sister Anastasia (Former occultist becomes an Orthodox Nun) amzn.to/3VEFmIS
    📙After Christendom by Michael Warren Davis amzn.to/3XrTpmj
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    C.S. Lewis & Tolkien Related Books I recommend:
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    📗Tolkien Dogmatics by Austin Freeman: amzn.to/3xzxHCd
    📕Dr. Holly Ordway's "Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography" amzn.to/3v45yBZ
    📙 Dr. Peter Kreeft's "Symbol or Substance?: A Dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham and J. R. R. Tolkien" amzn.to/3ttR6m4
    📘 Dr. Peter Kreeft's "The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings" amzn.to/3RPBVgk
    📗Christina Hale's "Deeper Heaven: A Reader's Guide to C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy" amzn.to/3GNFJZh
    📚Chronicles of Narnia Box Set for your home library: amzn.to/4aoAnRV
    📙Fr. Michael Ward's "Narnia Code" amzn.to/3GQyhg6
    📕 Narnia Vision of the Atonement" amzn.to/3RM0YBa
    Recommended Books:
    📙Fr. Andrew Damick's "Lord of Spirits: The Lord of Spirits: An Orthodox Christian Framework for the Unseen World and Spiritual amzn.to/4at8Fne
    📕 Fr. Andrew Damick's "Bearing God: The Life and Works of St. Ignatius of Antioch the God-Bearer" amzn.to/3yXS1xI
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Комментарии • 77

  • @ItsGoblinHour
    @ItsGoblinHour 2 месяца назад +28

    I'm a former Satanist that was even invited to a conference to play music and met Anton LaVey's book keeper. I was touched by Christ's grace a year ago and now am an Orthodox Catechumen. I would be honored to share my testimony- if the Lord wills it.

    • @DA-of5yj
      @DA-of5yj 2 месяца назад

      Cite your evidence for being his bookkeeper. I can almost guarantee you were never a Satanist

    • @ItsGoblinHour
      @ItsGoblinHour 2 месяца назад

      Google Flambeau Noir International Left Hand Path Consortium Atlanta, Georgia. My name is Ciaran Arts, my mother Helene Arts was a speaker and I was a musician and performing artist both on the roster. May God have mercy on you and I both brother. ​@@DA-of5yj

    • @chantaledm
      @chantaledm 2 месяца назад +2

      @@DA-of5yj @ItsGoblinHour did not say he was his bookkeeper.

    • @ItsGoblinHour
      @ItsGoblinHour 2 месяца назад +2

      ​​@@DA-of5yjgoogle International Left Hand Path Consortium 2017 AL Georgia. You'll find the name Ciaran Arts and Helene Arts on there. That's my mother and I. We were both attendees and flown there from Canada.

    • @zealousideal
      @zealousideal Месяц назад

      I’m glad u found Christ which is what is most important. Whatever church it is. I’ve known of ex Satanist in all faiths. We had many in evangelical and Pentecostal churches and we have many in Catholic Church. They talk about why and how they were led to Catholicism and how powerful it is and they knew this because of being ex high level satanic priests.

  • @samtjman
    @samtjman 2 месяца назад +37

    This reminds me of how C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters predicted the atheistic demon worshipper or sorcerer. Someone denying the spiritual yet simultaneously weaponizing it. I see the sprouts of this darkness today.

    • @barrelagedfaith
      @barrelagedfaith  2 месяца назад +7

      Yes, I almost took our conversation to Lewis on that very topic but we were limited on time! Thanks for chiming in!

  • @SeraphimvanHelden
    @SeraphimvanHelden 2 месяца назад +12

    Beautiful! Glory to God. I was born into a nominally hindu family. When I converted to Christianity, I really saw the power of the demons at work and then later on in life became EO.

  • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
    @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +36

    My hubby became EO in the 80s in the Santa Cruz mountains and was an EO Deacon for almost 30 years…we run a beeswax candle factory and icon shop in Central California

    • @kaynecummins6260
      @kaynecummins6260 2 месяца назад +4

      Do you have a website to purchase from?

    • @Luis-zx3ls
      @Luis-zx3ls 2 месяца назад +3

      Interesting do you have an IG

    • @chuckliquor3663
      @chuckliquor3663 2 месяца назад +3

      What a beautiful way of life.

    • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
      @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +1

      @@Luis-zx3lssoon!

    • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
      @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад

      @@chuckliquor3663we live in our 8000 square foot beeswax candle factory and there’s a new ROCOR women’s park 8 miles away! St Catherine’s… come and see!

  • @NoahBradon
    @NoahBradon 2 месяца назад +10

    Much-needed commentary on the rise of neopaganism.

  • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
    @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +32

    I have Sister Anastasia’s book… my book is soon to be republished, “Confessions of a Controlaholic.” My life story from RC in liberal Berkeley to losing the faith and going Sex drugs rock n roll, New Age, Hindu cult. Then Protestant for ten years, RC again until God brought me to EO in 2014 at age 56!

    • @jacquesnel8578
      @jacquesnel8578 2 месяца назад +2

      Wow wow. Praise God in the heights and on earth peace, good will towards men.

    • @albusai
      @albusai 2 месяца назад

      If you would have read up our bible you would not ever gone to Rome. Hebrew 10 debunkes mass and purgatory. And prayers to dead people is prohibited

    • @CosmicMystery7
      @CosmicMystery7 2 месяца назад +2

      @@albusai Prayers for the dead are something Christians have always done (and Jews before us) and is most certainly biblical. We Orthodox Christians do not believe in purgatory. With that said, Hebrews 10 in no way debunks liturgical worship.

    • @zealousideal
      @zealousideal Месяц назад

      We have many ex high level Satanists that came to Christ in Catholic Church too and they speak on everything they did and how and why it led them to the Catholic Church.

  • @joer9156
    @joer9156 2 месяца назад +4

    This is si similar to my experience. I too was an occultist before I became Orthodox, and the books 'Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future' by Seraphim Rose and 'The Gurus, the Young Man and Elder Paisios' by Dionysios Farasiotis were also very important in my conversion, alongside 'Divine Eros' by St. Symeon the New Theologian.

  • @murkywaters1931
    @murkywaters1931 2 месяца назад +2

    I was once an enthusiastic practitioner of witchcraft. Thank Christ for his patience and mercy ☦️ I felt the power of darkness snap off of me like a strand of cord when I received prayer from my father

  • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
    @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +12

    EXCELLENT BOOK Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Father Seraphim Rose! I wish I’d found him instead of the Hindu guru in 1983. I begged God to save me out of it in 1995 and Christ met me in my brothers ICU hospital room!

  • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
    @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +4

    I’m getting his book. This guy is GREAT! I love how he speaks! You too!

  • @katme5479
    @katme5479 2 месяца назад +1

    I am so glad that the truth is being spoken broadly. Lord forgive and have mercy on me

  • @PaisiusAndrei
    @PaisiusAndrei 2 месяца назад +1

    I didn’t know MWD became Orthodox. Glory to God.

  • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
    @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +4

    This is soooo good! The ascetic struggle towards Theosis is for householders not just monks! The Jesus Prayer helps clear the Nous so we can EXPERIENCE GOD! Amen!!! Ceaseless prayer!

    • @Shourya899
      @Shourya899 2 месяца назад +1

      I am Hindu Slav eastern European I Find vedanta much more interesting I still Love Christ but Buddha and Krishna is my Soul have a great day understand different religion they are also great nothing is eternal truth or eternal lie still life is wonderful ❤ may Gods Blessed you 💗

    • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
      @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад

      @@Shourya899Christ is the ONLY Way… Hinduism is older but the spirit behind it is not the Creator. Vedanta has some beautiful concepts but Jesus is THE way to salvation. He saves us! Check out book the Human Icon by Dr. Christine Mangala Frost! 🙏🏻☦️🙏🏻

  • @StevenT-33
    @StevenT-33 2 месяца назад +1

    Forced multiculturalism at the over whelming rapid pace it has been enforced has forced people to seek their ancestors "unique" religious ways as one of many ways of holding onto or finding their identity.

  • @ellisspear
    @ellisspear 2 месяца назад +2

    Wow....this is an amazing story and an amazing presentation. Thank you Kyle for bringing this forward and for posting so many great resources down below. I think Barrel aged faith is becoming a wonderful resource for all of us. 👏👏👏

  • @rinyotsu2.0
    @rinyotsu2.0 2 месяца назад +2

    If demons give you health, if Odin helped me end my alcohol addiction, how do you know you're not the one who is wrong?

    • @barrelagedfaith
      @barrelagedfaith  2 месяца назад +3

      Yes, demons or evil spirits use pagan gods (idols) to temporarily help people. However, this 'temporary help' is like a worm on a fishhook. A false reality is embraced through them which will eventually lead to self-collapse. I have a friend who used to worship Odin and is now an Orthodox Christian if you want to connect with him.

    • @rinyotsu2.0
      @rinyotsu2.0 2 месяца назад

      @@barrelagedfaith you're welcome to your belief, but my gods aren't demons. A demon actually came into my life when I was young wearing the skin of a christian pastor who stole my dad's tools from my mom before my dad's body was cold. Since then I've met many more demons in the form of christians who sided with the pastor despite the pastor being forced to return what he stole, which he ended up tricking my mother into receiving a box of rocks instead of my dad's tools.
      If your god's religious leaders are capable of stealing from a widow, you'll have your work cut out trying to convert me to what I see as an evil religion.

    • @rinyotsu2.0
      @rinyotsu2.0 2 месяца назад

      @@barrelagedfaith the gods I recognize are not demons, I'm quite certain of that. My family dealt with a demon when I was kid though in the form of a christian pastor. He stole my dad's tools from my mom before my dad's body could grow cold after he passed. The pastor was eventually forced to return my dad's tools but ultimately tricked my mom by returning my dad's toolbox filled with rocks instead of my dad's tools. Since learning of this treachery, I've had several christians side with the pastor so you'll have your work cut out for you if you plan to convert me to what I see as an evil religion.

    • @barrelagedfaith
      @barrelagedfaith  2 месяца назад +4

      @@rinyotsu2.0 no doubt that the kingdom of darkness can also work through pastors, priests, or any who will submit to it through sin, selfishness, and pride. But theft has nothing to do with Christ. We don't judge Odin or Christ based upon those who abuse their teaching or religion. I am merely stating that I believe you will find Christ to be more effective in liberating you throughout your life.

    • @rinyotsu2.0
      @rinyotsu2.0 2 месяца назад

      @@barrelagedfaith I gave your god a try for a long time. The Norse gods have been far more effective at liberating me.
      If the pastor was the only evil christian I had experience with, you'd be correct. But experience with christians throughout my life has taught me to keep them at arms length if I don't want to be a victim of what they believe their god thinks is ok. I've had a gun pointed at me, I was bullied heavily as a kid, and for every decent christian I've dealt with 10 evil ones

  • @tupacamaruiv5804
    @tupacamaruiv5804 2 месяца назад +8

    I’m going to pass on getting the devil’s haircut

    • @junioralfa3628
      @junioralfa3628 2 месяца назад +2

      😂😂😂

    • @JudoMateo
      @JudoMateo 2 месяца назад

      Beck wouldn’t, since he was raised by a cult whose founder identified with the antichrist its not surprising.

  • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
    @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +4

    Send them to monasteries that Elder Ephraim started… I had three exorcisms before my Baptism. Local churches might be ecumenist or modernist so Elder Ephraim’s monastery is good to start with.

    • @CosmicMystery7
      @CosmicMystery7 2 месяца назад +2

      Every rite of baptism in the Orthodox Church includes exorcism. So long as your priest is preaching Orthodoxy and celebrating the sacraments you're good to go. The monasteries founded by Elder Ephraim (soon to be St. Ephraim, God willing) are holy places filled with holy monastics, but it's not always wise to send the newly illumined to more ascetically rigorous monasteries right out of the gate. As St. Paul stated, we need milk before meat.

    • @orthodoxboomergrandma3561
      @orthodoxboomergrandma3561 2 месяца назад +1

      @@CosmicMystery7 I know. It was determined that due to my fairly mild (compared to others) background, that I needed more exorcism by a priest experienced in it. Some might need this, it depends.

    • @charlesmaximus9161
      @charlesmaximus9161 2 месяца назад

      I was baptised and catechised through one of the athonite style monasteries Geronda Ephraim started. My spiritual father is the abbot at that one. There is nothing wrong with sending new catechumens to these oases of grace.

  • @NscladyBeMuseMent
    @NscladyBeMuseMent 2 месяца назад +1

    Please explain the naked boy in Mathew.
    Why is Christianity using purple symbolism
    Serious question

    • @sarahdenordwall2588
      @sarahdenordwall2588 2 месяца назад

      It’s the liturgical colour for penance and repentance.

    • @annalynn9325
      @annalynn9325 2 месяца назад +1

      I’m not aware of a naked boy in Matthew. Can you say the chapter and verse so I can look it up?

  • @zealousideal
    @zealousideal Месяц назад

    These arguments aren’t specific to EO and is found in RC too. We were the same church anyway. 😂
    I’ve been in both and even looking at the spiritual/prayer aspect in itself only…I didn’t feel any closer to God or more spiritual there. In fact I find it more and deeper in RC to be honest. God is God. Holy Spirit is Holy Spirit. He’s not only in one church or better or stronger in one church 😂.

  • @normadaly7506
    @normadaly7506 2 месяца назад

    Thank you

  • @stylist62
    @stylist62 2 месяца назад

    Amen 🙏🥰🌺please recommend some books, on early fathers

    • @barrelagedfaith
      @barrelagedfaith  2 месяца назад

      I love St. Ignatius of Antioch who was mentored by the fathers. Here is a link to one of his letters: www.newadvent.org/fathers/0105.htm St. John Chrysostom's sermons/homilies are generally all amazing and food for the soul. Here is a huge list of church fathers that are all free & enjoy! www.newadvent.org/fathers/

  • @noahjohnson2611
    @noahjohnson2611 2 месяца назад +1

    Is there an uncut version of this video? The jumpiness is throwing me off

  • @DA-of5yj
    @DA-of5yj 2 месяца назад

    I am so proud and glad that ive never been a christian!

  • @muratsahinoglu2867
    @muratsahinoglu2867 2 месяца назад

    HERKEZ HERGÜN EN AZ 2000 BİSMİLLAH OKUSUN İLERDE MELEKLERLE İRTİBAT OLUR ALLAHIN RAHMETİNİ KAZANIR İYİ KUL OLUR ÖTEKİ DÜNYAYA GİDER GELİR

  • @Personallibraryofwisdom
    @Personallibraryofwisdom 2 месяца назад

    lol

  • @niceflowers9441
    @niceflowers9441 2 месяца назад +2

    Hail satan.

    • @JudoMateo
      @JudoMateo 2 месяца назад +4

      Are you proud of parroting the night stalker?! Sad.

    • @marcokite
      @marcokite 2 месяца назад +12

      Hope one day you open your heart and your mind to Christ - the Eternal King.
      Christ is Ascended!

    • @kirerunte1046
      @kirerunte1046 2 месяца назад

      Demons are monsters and most people's worldview is demonic