It may be 2013, but that doesn’t mean that Satan has updated his methods of corrupting America’s youth, as John Hagee explained in his Sunday sermon this week in which he warned his congregation, yet again, that if they read Harry Potter books they are “opening the gates of your mind to the Prince of Darkness and he will invade, and once he’s invited in, he doesn’t go out until he is cast out.”

Even more dangerous, Hagee warned, is that infernal rock and roll music, which “is nothing more than Satanic cyanide” that needs to be taken outside of the home and burned: