Cosmopolitan is a publication where junk and trashy topics seem to be the modus operandi. Its meant-to-shock titles for articles and other content have generally been a reflection of the worst parts of American culture for years. Interestingly enough, one of its pieces, published in mid-November, got attention by a larger public audience than it usually enjoys.

This is because of two central aspects that the article deals with — namely, The Satanic Temple’s newer abortion clinic in New Mexico named Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic (a disgusting and evil-minded name), and abortion being an overt Satanic ritual.

The article is explicit and unapologetic in its approach. With regard to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s mother, it gleefully explains that she and her contemporaries only had access to illegal abortions, insinuating that if they had the abortion amenities and freedoms women have today, then perhaps Roe v. Wade wouldn’t have been overturned.

In other words, this lovely article starts off by wishing that Justice Alito’s mother had killed him in the womb — all because he wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs. This bile is from an obvious member of The Party of Tolerance and Love™. Justice Alito has made the correct enemies.

This gross insinuation quickly gets buried by the larger content of the piece discussing the Satanic abortion clinic’s approach to abortions.

Satanists, the article assures us, don’t actually worship Satan; they are just a symbol for a defiance of cultural norms and accepted religious practices. The article seeks to brand The Satanic Temple as the logical and reasonable activist class of the religious community. After all, Satan was the first to rebel against God. Ergo, it is appropriate for him to become the symbol of rebellious activism. Except that worship of Self — which is intrinsic to Satanists — is ultimately Satan worship.

The article then goes on to explain the Satanic abortion ritual that turns Christian words and prayers on their head. The ritual involves a mirror and narrowing down your thoughts to “your intent, your responsibility to you.” The following exercise once you’ve made yourself the center of what is about to happen next is to proclaim that your will be done (a bastardization of the Lord’s Prayer). Then, after the pills are administered to kill the baby, the ritual ends with, “By my body, my blood; by my will, it is done” — a mockery of Jesus’s final words on the cross: “It is finished.”

Not every abortion clinic is as explicit in its display of self-worship and the child as an obvious sacrifice to that self. However, Satanists are saying the quiet part out loud, and Cosmopolitan is amplifying their message: Kill your unborn baby as a ritual to empower yourself, then you will be free. Apply that same undertone to every pro-abortion message, and the veneer of “compassion” and being “loving” toward women and families quickly falls off.

It should be a wake-up call to Christians who have bought into the pro-abortion lies. You are literally on the same side as self-proclaimed Satanists. Perhaps “good Catholics” like President Joe Biden and Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should reexamine their position in light of this.

In this season of Advent in the Christian liturgical calendar, it is interesting to reflect once again on the promises of the Bible. In the beginning, when Adam and Eve sinned against God and cursed all of creation, God did not leave them without hope. God promised Eve that her “seed” would crush Satan’s head and conquer and restore all that was lost because of the original sin of Adam and Eve.

Mary and her son Jesus — the “seed” of Eve predicted in Genesis 3:15 — was that promised redeemer.

Satan hates mothers, children, and families because they are a reminder, an allegory, to the fact that he has already lost and that his self-worship will not prevail.