ABC Spotlights Sex Offender Past of Satanic Ritual Organizer

Matthew Balan | October 23, 2014
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the late 21 October 2014/early 22 October 2014 edition of Nightline, ABC's Byron Pitts zeroed in on how the organizer of a Satanic ritual in Oklahoma City in September 2014 has a criminal record of sexual assault. Pitts underlined that how the felon, Adam Daniels, claims to be a "religious leader," and is yet a "convicted sex offender." The correspondent bluntly turned to Daniels and said, "You get how, for most people, those two things don't line up."

Pitts also pointed out another controversy that the Satanic leader is involved in: his plan to build an altar to Satan that incorporates debris from the Oklahoma City bombing. The ABC journalist confronted Daniels about this move:

BYRON PITTS: For many that support Daniels' right to religious expression, he crossed a different line with his plan to build an altar to Satan....His building material of choice? Debris from one of the deadliest domestic terrorist attacks in U.S. history.

DANIELS: Rubble from the Oklahoma City bombing.

PITTS (on-camera): What?

DANIELS: Sure.

PITTS: Why?

ADAM DANIELS, CO-FOUNDER & PASTOR, DAKHMA OF ANGRA MAINYU: Because it would have one of the most highly negative charges that you could have on – energy-wise.

PITTS: A hundred and sixty-eight men, women, and children were killed in that building.

DANIELS: Yes, sir!

PITTS: That is a painful moment for this nation – certainly, for this community – and you want to make an altar out of that?

DANIELS: Yeah – creation through destruction.

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