Son of Church of Satan Founder Preaches Jesus Christ

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Jess LaVey speaks at churches on the dangers of dabbling in the occult.

By Ed Donnally

The son of a man who led many to Satan is now leading people to Jesus Christ. But it has been a long and violent road for Anthony LaVey, who has since changed his name to Jess LaVey to escape comparison to his late father, Anton LaVey, founder of the worldwide Church of Satan.

At 15, Anthony LaVey was putting his clothes into his truck and moving out of the house owned by his infamous father. "[He] grabbed me and threw me on the ground, yelling at me while he beat me with a whip," the younger LaVey recalled. "All of a sudden his gun fell out of his pocket.

"I rolled over and picked it up and began shooting the tires out of his truck. I got up and ran to my truck and drove away leaving him yelling. I was covered in whip marks. My clothes were ripped, and I had blood all over me."

The event was typical of LaVey's chaotic, tortured and highly fragmented youth. Today at 33, he is the Rev. Jess LaVey of Yucaipa, Calif., where he does as much ministry as his health allows.

Though he said the Holy Spirit has brought amazing victory into his life, he added that he still bears the emotional and physical scars of prolonged ritualistic abuse while in his father's care. He claims that when he was 11 or 12, his father beat him with a crowbar and then castrated him.

"He was real angry because he couldn't get me to do what he wanted," LaVey said. His father wanted him eventually to lead the Church of Satan. A pop icon of the 1960s and 1970s, Anton LaVey had churches in San Francisco and Hollywood, Calif., with membership reported at 50,000.

On Black Sabbath, April 30, 1966, he declared the arrival of the Age of Satan. Two years later on Christmas Eve, inside the satanists' mother church in Easter Berlin, Jess was born.

Though he spent much of his early life in boarding schools, LaVey said his father insisted in picking him up and bringing him home for visits. There, his father repeatedly raped him and forced him to attend rituals. "[He] was a bizarre, sick man," he said.

Rebelling at 10, he sent away for a Bible correspondence course. He once used a glow pen to write "Jesus Saves" on the walls of a room reserved for rituals. At 14, he made contact with a Vineyard church in Oceanside, Calif., where he received deliverance from demonic forces. "I felt like a big mountain had been lifted off me, and I was totally drained," he said. "But there was peace."

LaVey later graduated from a small Indian Bible college in rural Hemet, Calif., and founded Sword of the Spirit Ministries. He has been a frequent guest on Christian radio shows and in churches, speaking on the dangers of dabbling in the occult. He refused to attend his father's funeral in 1997. Today he keeps photos of his father in a shed behind his mobile home because he doesn't want demonic influences in his house.

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Though he said the Holy Spirit has brought amazing victory into his life, he added that he still bears the emotional and physical scars of prolonged ritualistic abuse while in his father's care. He claims that when he was 11 or 12, his father beat him with a crowbar and then castrated him.

Though he spent much of his early life in boarding schools, LaVey said his father insisted in picking him up and bringing him home for visits. There, his father repeatedly raped him and forced him to attend rituals. "[He] was a bizarre, sick man," he said.

How does an individual who has suffered this much abuse at the hands of a parent learn to obey the commandment "Honor thy Father and thy Mother."?

Only through Jesus, I guess. But still, how tough would that be?

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Very very sad story. Mans inhumanity to man, unbelievable.

This man is so blessed to have found Jesus, only Jesus could give this poor man any peace or comfort, after surviving such a horrendous childhood.

Honor thy father? That's a tuff one. This may be a stretch, but: If I honor a check, that means I accept it. If I honor the terms of an agreement, that means I accept the terms. So maybe to "honor" this kind of father, one would accept him as he is. To accept him as he is does not imply approval, only acceptance.
 
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You guys are making me blush:D

Actually, my own dad was not easy to honor, so I had to figure a way to honor him. After years of trying to change him, years of verbally rejecting him and judging him, I finally figured I needed to honor him, by accepting him for who he was. I used to get very angry at my dad when I would hear about some awful thing he had done. But once I learned to honor him thru acceptance, that FREED ME from bitterness, anger and resentment toward my dad!:clap:

And then, wonder of wonders, many years later, my dad came back to faith in Jesus!:clap: The last year of his life, he would call me on the phone and quote scriptures to me.:) Thank you Jesus!:bow:

I think when I got out of God's way, He was able to work a mighty change in my dad, a change that I could never accomplish.
 
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Great story!

The great atheist debater responsible for taking prayer out of public schools (Madeline Murray O'Hare) also lived to see her son be born in again in the grace of Christ Jesus.

Shows how mighty Jesus is, that you don't have to be brought up in Him to be saved.

What a gift!!
 
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Auntie said:
Very very sad story. Mans inhumanity to man, unbelievable.

This man is so blessed to have found Jesus, only Jesus could give this poor man any peace or comfort, after surviving such a horrendous childhood.

Honor thy father? That's a tuff one. This may be a stretch, but: If I honor a check, that means I accept it. If I honor the terms of an agreement, that means I accept the terms. So maybe to "honor" this kind of father, one would accept him as he is. To accept him as he is does not imply approval, only acceptance.

One has to be a father to deserve honor, producing a child biologically does not make one a father.
 
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Wolseley said:
Jess LaVey speaks at churches on the dangers of dabbling in the occult.
From Religioustolerance.org:

[font=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]2002-JUN-11: SRA controversy about Jess LaVey: Jess LaVey tells a familiar story: suffering from extreme abuse during childhood, being groomed to become a very senior leader in a Satanic organization, escaping from the group, converting to Evangelical Christianity, and either writing books or going on the lecture circuit of conservative Christian churches. The story has been repeated often. One wonders why no POM's (Plain Ordinary Members) of Satanic organizations never seem to leave and expose the group. Also, one wonders why none of these people ever become liberal Christians, mainline Christians, New Agers or Neopagans.

Jess LaVey claims to be the son of Antol LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. According to Charisma News Service, his "testimony, which he has told in churches, interviews and posted on the Internet, includes accounts of how he suffered years of abuse by his infamous father, who he said wanted him to become the satanists' leader, before breaking free from the world of the occult and becoming a [conservative] Christian." John W. Morehead of the counter-cult group Watchman Fellowship investigated LaVey and allegedly was unable to corroborate any of LaVey's claims. Charisma News Service had published a story about LaVey, but later retracted it. Charisma News editor Andy Butcher wrote: "Our initial inquiries weren't as thorough as they should have been. In the light of the unanswered questions, we regret having given the story further exposure."
Uh oh, all you need is faith...
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Wolseley said:
Jess LaVey speaks at churches on the dangers of dabbling in the occult.
Here's the Charisma News followup article:

[font=Verdana,Arial] The dramatic testimony of a minister claiming to be the son of Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, has been called into question. Critics say that Jess LaVey's story does not add up -- and he has refused to provide information that could confirm his identity.[/font] [font=Verdana,Arial]LaVey's testimony, which he has told in churches, interviews and posted on the Internet, includes accounts of how he suffered years of abuse by his infamous father, who he said wanted him to become the satanists' leader, before breaking free from the world of the occult and becoming a Christian.[/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]After LaVey's story was reported by Charisma News Service in April, John W. Morehead of the cult-watching group Watchman Fellowship said that he had not been able to corroborate LaVey's claims and that LaVey's descriptions of LaVeyian satanism "have no basis in fact."[/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]LaVey, who is based in Yucaipa, Calif., sent Charisma News copies of personal documents to confirm his identity, but the Social Security number was discovered to have been issued to someone of another name, and some of the papers were found by an identities investigator to have been doctored in places. LaVey then declined to provide an original copy of his birth certificate.[/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]"Our initial inquiries weren't as thorough as they should have been," said Charisma News editor Andy Butcher. "In the light of the unanswered questions, we regret having given the story further exposure."
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Miss Shelby said:
Though he said the Holy Spirit has brought amazing victory into his life, he added that he still bears the emotional and physical scars of prolonged ritualistic abuse while in his father's care. He claims that when he was 11 or 12, his father beat him with a crowbar and then castrated him.

Though he spent much of his early life in boarding schools, LaVey said his father insisted in picking him up and bringing him home for visits. There, his father repeatedly raped him and forced him to attend rituals. "[He] was a bizarre, sick man," he said.

How does an individual who has suffered this much abuse at the hands of a parent learn to obey the commandment "Honor thy Father and thy Mother."?

Only through Jesus, I guess. But still, how tough would that be?

Michelle

From reading this, I love this man and proud to call him my fellow brother. But you are right. A very good lesson.
 
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Yea, according to everything I've read, Anton LaVey had 3 kids, 2 daughters and a son, Xerxes who was born in 1993...no mention of any son named Anthony. And I even double checked wikepedia (spelling??) and they only mentioned Xerxes and the two daughters.
 
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