His voice dispassionate and unrepentent and grotesque and barbarous, Dennis Rader recounted his savage murderous escapades in a tone that mocked all that is civil and good and moral. It wasn't the voice of Rader, it was the voice of Satan/Lucifer. It wasn't Anthony Hopkins playing the pornagraphic and fictional in Silence of the Lambs, it was a life imitiating art embodiement of evil.
Rader was an upstanding member of his church. This makes sense. Lucifer, the fallen archangel, is the great ridculer of all that religion represents. Lucifer infiltrating an organized religious congregation is pure satanic burlesque. The fact that this tiny religious community couldn't detect pure evil in its midst is a damning indictment of modern religious practice.
Too often modern religion takes the normative and makes it descriptive. Social norms dictate how we treat each other; for centuries civilizations have used folktales to illustrate normative conditions and to desribe the penances that were enacted for breaking the norms. Religious fundamentalists have eschewed the lessons of morality and wisdom represented by the normative and mistakenly use them as absolute governers off all things related to their existence. They mortgage their eartlhy existence by accepting the normative as an absolute, fundamental set of truths.
Since no one is paying attention to what is and what has always been, Lucifer finds ample opportunity to remind us that he's never really gone away.
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