Royal Navy technician Chris Cranmer has been given permission to perform rituals on board ship wearing black robes in front of a makeshift altar. If he is killed in action, he will be given a Church of Satan funeral. Tory MP Ann Widdecombe says it is "utterly shocking". The Royal Navy says that as an equal opportunities employer, it is right to respect religious beliefs. Who do young people agree with?
Cranmer began his interest in the occult when he was 15 and stumbled across the Satanic Bible. Talk about the fascination of such ideas to many teenagers. What is attractive - is it the rituals, or the idea of spells and magic? Or do young people just like being outrageous?
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