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I wasn't trying to present an empirical study. I just think that the thought process of religious people (much as it baffles me sometimes) does allow them to make a distinction between satire and devil worship. It's not a matter of being more or less religious. I'm sure even the pope is perfectly capable of telling those two things apart (nowadays).

That hotel guest probably just wanted to make a political point (unless she was clinically insane).



> I just think that the thought process of religious people does allow them to make a distinction between satire and devil worship.

You'd be surprised. Things many American evangelicals (of the TV-vangelist loving variety) believe:

1. Disney's Aladdin tells teenagers to take off their clothes: http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/aladdin.asp

2. The letter K or the letter U on a grocery product means the maker paid off the Jews: http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/kosher.asp

3. Proctor & Gamble's "man in the moon" logo proves they are Satanists supporting the Church of Satan: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp

If you believe those, yet aren't clinically insane, then concern about a devil icon on an in-room pay-per-view machine (purveyor of filth!) seems positively normal.




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