A group of Christians plans to attend SatanCon in Boston this week to pray for the attendees of what is being described as “the largest satanic gathering in history.”
“I initially went to prayer with a preconceived idea that God would want this to be prayed away,” Intercessors for America regional leader Suzie MacAskill told the Christian Post. “It was following this assumption that I was awakened through the night with a clear sense of ‘This is [God’s] harvest field.'”
According to Fox News, SatanCon 2023, which is scheduled to take place April 28-30 in Boston, marks the 10-year anniversary of The Satanic Temple, according to its website. The theme of the gathering is “Hexennacht in Boston,” translated from German for “Witches’ Night,” which marks the ancient pagan holiday of May Eve.
The Temple claims to be a nontheistic religious organization that does not worship or believe in a personal Satan, but rather aims to “encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits.”
SatanCon, which will include discussion panels, entertainment, satanic rituals such as “unbaptisms,” a satanic wedding chapel and a “satanic marketplace,” was dedicated to Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu after the Temple was not allowed to deliver an invocation at Boston City Hall.
The group held a similar gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona, last year, which they dedicated to former Republican Mayor Jim Lane and former Republican Councilor Suzanne Klapp, who also denied a request to invoke the devil at a City Council meeting.
Sisters Suzie and Lynn MacAskill, who serve as regional leaders in Boston for the Washington, D.C.-based Intercessors for America, told the Christian Post that hundreds of Christians intend to show up at SatanCon to pray and conduct worship services.
“Since truly seeking God’s will for this event, and not coming with my own ideas, I believe I’ve been able to more clearly hear of His love for those who are lost and His strategy for praying for this event,” Suzie MacAskill said, explaining that while she initially prayed for the event to fail, she shifted instead to praying for the souls of the attendees.
“God is showing me that I need to repent of this and try instead to look at each individual and see them as lost, broken, wounded, seeking and be the person who stands in the gap to cry out for their salvation,” she said.
