The influence of music and movies on the human brain shouldn’t be underestimated.

AP:

Dozens of Orthodox Christian faithful held up wooden crosses and sang Church hymns outside of Cyprus’ state broadcaster on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of the country’s controversial entry for the Eurovision song contest — titled “El Diablo” — that they say promotes satanic worship.

Some of the protesters, including families, held up placards reading in Greek, “We’re protesting peacefully, no to El Diablo,” “Repent and return to Christ” and “Christ saves, Diablo kills.”

The broadcaster and the singer of the song insist it has been misinterprested and the song is actually about an abusive relationship between two lovers.

The protest came several days after the powerful Orthodox Church called for the withdrawal of the song that it said mocked the country’s moral foundations by advocating “our surrender to the devil and promoting his worship.”

The Holy Synod, the Church’s highest decision-making body, said in a statement that the song “essentially praises the fatalistic submission of humans to the devil’s authority” and urged the state broadcaster to replace it with one that “expresses our history, culture, traditions and our claims.”

Last week, police charged a man with uttering threats and causing a disturbance when he barged onto the grounds of the public broadcaster to protest what he condemned as a “blasphemous” song that was an affront to Christianity.

The state broadcaster insisted that the entry won’t be withdrawn, but its board chairman, Andreas Frangos, conceded that organizers should have done a better job explaining the core message of the song, whose lyrics include, “I gave my heart to el diablo…because he tells me I’m his angel.”

Even the Cypriot government waded into the controversy, with Presidential spokesman Viktoras Papadopoulos saying that although the views of dissenters are respected, the government cannot quash freedom of expression.

“The Government fully respects creative intellectual and artistic freedom that cannot be misinterpreted or limited because of a song’s title, and unnecessary dimensions should not be attributed,” Papadopoulos said in a written statement.

If the singer says the song is about an abusive relationship between two lovers, it could still be about Satan and her.

Let’s give her the benefit of the doubt though, maybe the song is harmless.

It looks pretty demonic.

But maybe the lyrics are okay.

Lyrics:

(Intro)
I fell in love, I fell in love
I gave my heart to el diablo, el diablo
I gave it up, I gave it up
Because he tells me I’m his angel, I’m his angel

(Verse 1)
Tonight we gonna burn in a party
We wild as fire that’s on the loose
Hotter than siracha on our bodies
Ta-Taco tamale, yeah, that’s my mood
All this spicy melts my icy edges
Baby, it’s true
Tonight we gonna burn in a party
It’s Heaven in Hell with you

(Pre-Chorus)
Mama-mamacita, tell me what to do
Lo-la-lo-la-loca, I’m breaking the rules

(Chorus)
I fell in love, I fell in lovе
I gave my heart to el diablo, еl diablo
I gave it up, I gave it up
Because he tells me I’m his angel, I’m his angel
Oh-oh-oh, el diablo, el diablo
I fell in love, I fell in love
I gave my heart to el diablo, el diablo

(Verse 2)
Tonight we gonna dance in the moonlight
Droppin’ our lashes on the floor
Hair flip-flip, made you look twice
Touch me, touch me, mi amor
All this spicy melts my icy edges
Baby, for sure
Tonight we gonna dance in the moonlight
And then we gonna do it some more

(Bridge)
I love el diablo
I love el diablo
I love el diablo

(Outro)
I love el diablo
El diablo

Whoa, okay, yes. I see what the protesters mean.

It doesn’t matter what they say the song is about, what matters is what they are literally pronouncing when singing it, and they are pronouncing their love for the devil.

But I guess there just weren’t any other songs to choose from, so they had to use this one for Eurovision.

A 17-year-old Mestizo boy, and an unnamed 16-year-old boy, who we can pretty safely assume is also a Mestizo, stand accused of kidnapping, raping, torturing, mutilating and killing a 15-year-old girl, as part of a pact with the devil, prosecutors said Tuesday.

From the Houston Chronicle:

“It’s horrific what happened to my niece,” the victim’s aunt Catera Cervantes said Tuesday. “I didn’t even know the full details of it until I saw it on the news, and we’re all trying to cope with it the best way we can.”

Her niece, Corriann Cervantes, was found about 4:10 a.m. Feb. 8 in a vacant apartment in a Clear Lake complex in the 16400 block of El Camino Real, between El Dorado Boulevard and Bay Area Boulevard.

Jose E. Reyes, 17, was arrested Sunday in the NASA-area slaying and a 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday.

Before the killing, Reyes had said he had sold his soul to the devil, and the juvenile asked if he could do it too, Assistant Harris County District Attorney John Jordan said.

“They discussed the fact that Mr. Reyes had sold his soul to the devil,” Jordan said. “And if they ended up killing this teenager, it would also allow the 16-year-old to also sell his soul to the devil.”

Jordan said the girl was stabbed, beaten and sexually assaulted.

“There were puncture wounds to her face, which is consistent to a screwdriver,” Jordan said. He said the victim was found with an upside down crucifix carved into her stomach.

Both teens were charged with capital murder in the Feb. 5 death of the girl. Cervantes’ partially clothed body was found in a vacant apartment after a resident saw a door ajar.

“During the course of events, this teenager screamed, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ and attempted to run from the apartment,” Jordan said. “They stopped her and this became a kidnapping and eventually she was killed.”

Reyes is in the Harris County jail with no bail. The 16-year-old, who has not been identified because of his age, is behind bars in the Harris County Juvenile courthouse.

We should remember that the Mexicans built an entire civilization on the idea of Satanic ritual sacrifice, and thus it should not surprise us that they often return to this type of behavior.  Human behavior, like the behavior of all other living things, is rooted in the genetic make-up.

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