| TheEvilBanana said: Warning: This is the truth and as I believe it, do not participate in this thread if you're easily offended or closed minded. The exchange of contradictory ideas is what keeps this thing called the search for knowledge going. This thread is for people who are open minded, logical, and don't deny facts. If you are christian, you can try to post in this thread, but if you are too offended and are just going to insult and blasheme my God and creator Satan, just please go away now. |
Oh boy here we go...I say this with no disrespect, but you don't have the slightest clue what your talking about in relation to LeVayan Satanism. First of all, Anton wrote a book, one that embraced the carnal nature of human beings. To some of us, that book made perfect sense, because it resonated with something that we knew to be true all along, that human beings should not live in abstinence of their own desires and as a matter of fact are at their best when they are allowed to indudge their desires.
That being said Satanism is not thought of as a relgion, or organization of like minded people (you can look up videos of Peter Gilmore for proof of that), as a matter of fact we regularly disagree with each other and in some cases don't even like each other. Satanism is a tool by which we achieve excellence through induldging our inner desires and embracing the individual liberty of all people, not just those of us who are like minded.
I've seen the argument before that Lavey was a theist; however, I can offer that Satantists also consider themselves to be great actors as well (and we're the only group that will ever admit to it)...so perhaps what you and others have read into things is not quite what they are. Afterall, a Satanist tenet is that we never fall into the realm of self diliuson. Of course I have also seen arguments claiming they can prove that Jesus was a Satanist and if you treat the word Satan in the most literal term (i.e. the Latin definition of the word meaning simply challenger or adversary) Jesus' beliefs directly challenged the status quo of society at that time. Does that make Jesus a Santanist though? Perhaps not, when closer scruitiny is applied.
With that being said, you have a long path of self discovery ahead of you before you can claim to understand the fallacies of any religion. It's apparent to me that, while you you claim to want to have a "rational discussion" about this topic, you are very quick to dismiss anything that disagrees with you. Reading over the small number of comments that I have seen by you, I can see that you are the least tolerant of anyone in this thread at the time. Point being, if you are going to be the point of controversy, then be able to defend your points rationally...
Lastly, things you claim are true in Theistic Satatanism, present a bit of a pickle when you think about it. How can you be informed by Satan as a living being that speaks to you and deny the possiblity of God and call anyone that believes such dillusional? This kind of logic is the reason why LeVayan's claim that any other form of Satanism is simply Inverse Christianity. It defies the tenet of being rational and to strive for self awareness...
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