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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 
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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 
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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