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Norwegian Black Metal TV Special (1992) - Satanism in Stavanger

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Satanists - Do they exist in Stavanger?
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Can I get the remote?
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I'm coming
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Tor Erling is our video journalist
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Fantoft stave church Bergen June 6th
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The fire ignited
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Ullandhaug prayer house Stavanger July 22nd
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The fire ignited
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Revheim church Stavanger August 1st
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The fire ignited
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This is Revheim Church in Madla outside of Stavanger
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For 127 years this church has been a white-painted symbol for the strong and tradition-bound christian belief of this district
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Of course there are other churches, but they have far from the same status as this
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Now, only the white paint remains, because inside, the church is completely destroyed by a fire caused by three teenagers from the district
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Revheim is the third church in the western part of this country that has been lit on fire this summer.
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Church in Stavanger ruined by flames
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Satan worshippers hunted
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This is the work of satanist
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Potential satanism
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The fire in Revheim church: Three boys have confessed
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Tell what happened before the fire in Ullandhaug prayer house
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I was sitting at home one night and some people came over
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and they wanted me to go outside with them. When we were walking down towards Ullanhaug,
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and on the way we were talking about
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how we were going to walk there and where the prayer house was located from the main road up there
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We arrived, one of the guys broke the glass and went in through the basement and opened a window
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and us others crawled in
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one guy ran up and collected curtains and anything flammable
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the third guy destroyed a lot of things at lectern
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then I came and ripped up a couple of posters
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and we made a fire by the lectern and we left the premises
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The fire destroyed parts of the floor, roof, and walls and completely destroyed a piano
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How did you react when you heard the church was burnt down?
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I thought "Oh my god, what are people doing here in Madla?" so, I just left
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I thought it was sad and I don't understand how anyone could do something like that
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because it belongs to everyone in Madla, and even though not everyone visits that often, it still belongs to us
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I didn't believe it at first because my father told me when I woke up in the morning
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I was shocked because he told me it was lit on fire by somebody
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It was my mother who told me first, so I instantly thought "Oh it's probably those who did it"
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because I had heard someone mention there were going to be some church arsons
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We read that the stave church (Fantoft) had burned down, so I thought it was that group of people when I heard it
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This cave was built and used by the Germans during World War 2
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Now it's used by the teenagers who was behind the church burning
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Inside the cave are the walls covered in satanic symbols,
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so is this a satanic church or shelter from the rain for teenagers who doesn't want to be in the boy scouts?
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Certain newspaper has said that you preform rituals up there
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No rituals have been preformed
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Have none of you ever preformed a ritual?
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No
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Why haven't you done any yet?
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That's my own problem.
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Let that be up to myself
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What is satanism?
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Worship of our lord and our own ego
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Who is Satan?
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Satan is a natural power
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What powers?
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It can be anything. It's what rules everything
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How does one get in contact with Satan?
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I'd say through thoughts
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Is it the same as when christians pray to God?
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I will not compare anything that has to do with satanic worship. I don't want to compare satanic worship with christianity
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I don't want to put those two things against each other at all
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Personally I don't think they are satanists because I have spent a lot of time with them and they are great people.
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I have been with them a lot and they are good people.
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They have started playing with satanism and it has turned serious, because they haven't exaclty been mother's best children.
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I know who they are, you know. I've attended the same school as them and been in their parallel class
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They have been nice to me so it hasn't hurt me, but it's stupid what they are doing
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I like to think that they are doing this just to look tough, if you ask me. I don't think they are real satanists
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I think they do it because they think it's cool, but I think it's stupid
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Weird things have been happening. It's nothing you should play with
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It's satan, you know, to put it that way
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16 graves have been desecrated in the Revheim graveyard
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Do you think it's unnecessary?
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Yes it's unnecessary. I want to make it clear that it wasn't us who did that
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It's none of our intentions to do that. It's not the dead or their families that we're after.
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Before the church burnings, some christian teenagers painted over the satanic symbols in the cave
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The police do not rule out that it was an act of revenge
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We were haging with a friend, listening to music and talking
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Then one of them came with the idea of doing this
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Was the church burning an order from Satan?
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No, it was free will
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Two of the boys went inside the chuch while one was standing guard outside
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They melted together some candles to delay the fire
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Psalm books and altar pictures were used for the ignition
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Only a couple hours passed from when the fire was extinguished until the boys were picked up by the police to give a confession
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At one of their home's there were found and seized literature
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The police found these three books inside one of the boys' home, "The Black Book", "Brutal Stories", and "Questionable Texts"
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The books were bought through mail order from stores located in Oslo and Bergen
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and the author behind these books is none other than Tor Åge Bringsværd
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So, Tor Åge, are you the reason why these boys have commited church arson?
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Well, I have to say that I got very scared this summer when I saw these books in the news
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Satanism in Norway: The Police's raid in the homes of the arosnists; Satanic symbols galore
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"The Black Book" is a collection of old Norwegian folklore, based on the writings of the Norwegian Folklore Society
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and the two others are common horror anthologies, like Hitchcock, Roald Dahl and Ray Bradbury and so on
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Are there people who shouldn't read this book?
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No, no, no, people should have the right to misunderstand things
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and people should have the right to get a bit lost, but they need to face the consequences if they do so
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Bishop wants to map out satanic cults
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First and foremost, we need to avoid a crazy exaggeration of what this actually is
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and when the priesthood, who are also internally disputed,
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goes around saying that we need exorcists in every single town, or every village
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then I can feel a shiver going down my spine. The best advertisement this stuff could get is exactly this
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Society is built upon a christian moral, and I think the christians should enjoy that instead of going in on what everyone else is doing
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They are going too far
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Do you think society is hypocritical?
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Yes
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In what way is society hypocritical?
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In every way. If a man or a woman could become a priest,
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but not actually believe it, and that they can lead people into a belief they don't even believe in themselves
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That is a strong example of what is hypocritical
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Are there many people walking around in satanic t-shirts and patches here in the area?
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Yes, there's more and more
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Why do you think people do that?
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I think they think it's cool
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the community has just been tougher and tougher here in Sunde
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There's not a big group of satanists here in Madle
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How many are they?
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They are maybe a group of like 15, I don't know, but there are a few. Not everyone though
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When teenagers need to indentify with something, something that's a bit more abstract that's more of a ideological uniforming
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then it's arbitrary if they choose to be satanists, or environmental protectors, no that's a bit pointedly formulated,
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but, it's very arbitrary what they choose, but they benefit from belonging to something in their everyday life
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so they are confirming themselves as teenagers in in the adult-established society, and giving themselves a status within their own commmunity
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What is actually satanism?
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It's more of a serious thing, because satanism as I understand it, becomes a religion
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and then they decide to worship what's evil, and that is very serious
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I also don't think these boys have thought it through very much, so they are playing with fire
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Most people would say that these are 15-17 year olds
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who have had bad childhoods, bad school experience, doesn't have a job, and need something to belong to, so they call themselves satanists
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What do you have to say to that?
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Bullshit
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How come?
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I've had a good childhood with supportive parents,
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and very little adversity to my interests and what I do
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What sentence could these boys be facing?
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What I've been saying is that the court decides that, but they could be looking up to 4 years in prison
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but we have hope, that to my understanding, is that we could end up with community service
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Is that enough?
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To my understanding, clearly yes, because these teenagers have in many ways recieved their punishment in the local community
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and they are set to work against this movement if you could call it that, and they are set to take responsibility
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What happened when you went to bed after setting the church on fire?
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I had thought about it a little, then I fell asleep
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Then the next morning I woke up and realized I didn't want to wake up
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Why not?
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Well because I thought I had done so much that I don't know what I do in this world anymore
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I was going to be stuck with this for the rest of my life
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The trial against the boys will come up Shortly before stavanger city court