Evil is not an abstraction. It is not a metaphor. Evil is real, personal, and prowling like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). In America today, that prowling lion has taken the form of radical, satanic cults that have infiltrated our children’s phones, seduced their minds, and in some cases driven them to kill.
These groups—764, COM, No Lives Matter, and the Order of Nine Angles—are not harmless internet curiosities. They are not simply “dark memes” or teenage rebellion. They are deliberately satanic, deliberately nihilistic, and deliberately aimed at corrupting the most vulnerable: our youth. When Satan was cast out of Heaven, he did not fall alone. Revelation 12:4 tells us a third of the angels fell with him. And those fallen spirits are still at work today, whispering destruction into the ears of our children through these vile organizations.
764: Grooming Children for Death
The cult calling itself 764 is perhaps the most grotesque of them all. Prosecutors and journalists have exposed it as a predator network thriving on platforms like Discord and Telegram. They target kids as young as eight. They manipulate them into carving satanic symbols into their own skin, abusing animals, even broadcasting their own suicides for the group’s perverse entertainment.
These predators are not strangers lurking in a dark alley—they are inside the smartphones that parents have placed in their children’s hands. The Department of Justice has already arrested ringleaders connected to “764 Inferno,” charging them with conspiring to destroy civilized society. Yet hundreds of cases remain open. Hundreds of children remain at risk tonight.
We must remember the words of Christ: “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in Me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6). By that standard, the judgment on these 764 predators will be terrifying.
COM: The Hydra of Corruption
If 764 is one serpent head, COM is the hydra. Not a single group but a sprawling network, COM thrives on encrypted channels, creating interlocking communities of predators and extremists. They share images, extort children, glorify violence, and bait kids into embracing a world without God, without love, and without life.
Platforms like Discord boast of shutting down tens of thousands of accounts—but COM reemerges, more venomous than before, like a weed whose roots go deep into the soil of digital culture. It is Satan’s playground, filled with lies that twist the minds of teens desperate for meaning. And when the Devil finds an empty heart, he fills it with despair.
No Lives Matter: Propaganda of Death
As if mocking the sacred truth that every human life is made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), the cult No Lives Matter spreads the message that nothing matters—not morality, not life, not family, not God. Their slogan is nihilism; their mission is bloodshed.
They push manuals for murder, “kill guides,” and blueprints for attacks. They want chaos in the streets. They want your child to believe that stabbing a stranger or shooting a neighbor is the ultimate rebellion. They call it liberation. In truth, it is slavery to sin, and as St. Paul warned, “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
No Lives Matter is the logical endpoint of a culture that has abandoned God. If nothing is sacred, then nothing is safe. Not even your child.
Order of Nine Angles: The Ideology of Satanic Terror
Older than these digital cults, but no less deadly, the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) has long been the ideological spine of satanic extremism. Founded in the UK, O9A fuses neo-Nazism with Satanism and openly preaches “culling”—ritual murder—as a spiritual duty.
O9A literature has inspired real-world plots, including an American soldier who conspired to ambush his own unit for Satan. They encourage followers to infiltrate the military, police, and government—proof that this is no fringe game. This is a long war, waged by men who serve the Father of Lies.
Christ Himself said of the devil: “He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). The Order of Nine Angles and its spinoffs speak in that same language: deception, blood, and blasphemy.
Parents, Wake Up
These groups thrive because too many parents are asleep. Phones are given to children without limits. Bedrooms are turned into digital gateways to Hell. And when kids stumble into these traps, they rarely tell the truth—out of shame, fear, or manipulation.
The Catholic Church has always warned of Satan’s snares. St. Paul urged us to “put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes” (Ephesians 6:11). That armor begins in the home: vigilance, prayer, love, and discipline.
We cannot afford to shrug and say, “It’s just kids being kids online.” These predators are not playing games. They are playing for souls. For your child’s soul. For the soul of this nation.
Evil Is Real
Some people want to believe evil is a misunderstanding, a psychological disorder, or a cultural quirk. But the Catholic faith teaches otherwise. Evil is personal. Evil is demonic. Evil is real. When Lucifer fell, he took his angels with him. And today, through groups like 764, COM, No Lives Matter, and O9A, those fallen angels are still at work.
We are not helpless. Christ has already won the victory. But He calls us to vigilance, courage, and action. Parents must guard their children. Communities must stand against predators. And the Church must name this evil for what it is: Satan’s attempt to destroy souls before they can know salvation.
The war is real. The casualties are our children. The time to wake up is now.
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