How to Sell the Satanic Inversion of Values

Of course, it depends on the sort of person you want to damn. If he is the romantic type, then the approach is to portray betrayal and dishonor as a noble sacrifice for Love. Pop songs are *hugely* helpful in doing the cultural spade work:

The trick is to always portray the choice do evil as a noble and self-sacrificial gesture. “If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right”. Of course, this *can* be understood to be a revolt against stuffy societal conventions that have nothing to do with actual sin. But it can also be construed to mean that anything that stands in the way of the heart wanting what it wants is to be defeated at all costs.

Precisely the same trick obtains when you are selling the satanic inversion of evil to people of different passions, such as the passion for fighting evil.

Show the hero as willing to damn his soul to hell in order to save innocent women and children from brutes. This can be construed, of course, like Paul’s cry that he could wish himself cut off from Christ for the sake of his fellow Jews. But Paul does not then propose to go out murdering and raping people in order to bring about his damnation on behalf of his Jewish brethren. (Of course, neither does Solomon Kane, who only fights monsters and evil overlords). But the thing to remember is the slogan about going to hell defending innocents. It expresses the deep belief of our culture that, as long as you are doing some good thing, then you have moral liberty to be monstrous in pursuit of that end.

That’s the difference between a saint and those seriously espousing the satanic inversion of values: the sort of people who say, “Suppose I go to hell for torturing in defense of my country. So be it!” These people are basically saying “If killing you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.” A Catholic rejects sentimentality in defense of both fornication *and* torture.

That said, I agree with John C. Wright: Solomon Kane for President!