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Post by Thomas Eversole on Aug 23, 2016 11:41:51 GMT -6
↓This www.rt.com/usa/355799-satanic-temple-alaska-assembly/You know, I've been seeing more and more of this type of stuff lately. Like, a city council allowing local satanists to do their opening prayer: boingboing.net/2016/02/05/in-a-bow-to-satan-phoenix-cit.htmlThere's even some youtube videos on this stuff too. I really don't remember this type of stuff happening even like a year ago. Anyone else? Any thoughts on this topic? My understanding is that modern satanism is more or less like a trolling atheism. They don't believe in a higher power, but align themselves with the higher power that major faiths are completely against. ...and then act like their gracious and peaceful people. Dunno why they want to interject their prayers though. Just to show off, or boast that they can get away with it?
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Aug 23, 2016 15:19:10 GMT -6
It's a sore subject with me - every single "Satanist" I've ever encountered was a troll who refused to have a logical, reasonable conversation about anything and instead, just tried to be as annoying as possible. Then again, remember that modern "Satanism" is 100% literally a protest of religious doctrine and an alleged desire to be "free" of it, by adding religious doctrine to one's "philosophies". It's a self-defeating idea, so there's really no reason to be a "Satanist", other than to look edgy. Like the internet trolls who try to disprove legitimate historical facts by throwing insults in comment sections, these people probably don't care about evangelizing to outsiders, but rather are probably just exploiting the "freedom of religion" thing to say they can. (It's one of many reasons I don't agree with democracy, but that's for another thread, I guess.) I think back to some (pseudo-)"Satanic" organization a couple years ago that wanted to hand out (pseudo-)"Satanic" activity books to school kids. As I recall, all of the page numbers had inverted pentagrams around them (lolol) and one of the pages was about Cerberus, a Greek mythological creature which doesn't exist in atheistic philosophy - thus, it contradicts the teachings of the people handing it out.
It's all glorified edginess.
I guess the "Satanic Temple" claims to have a better idea of what Satan "represents" than the group I know more about, the "Church of Satan". So, two different groups, disagreeing on the teachings of a being they don't even believe in. If God didn't exist or teach an objective moral code, how could one group be more representative of anything than the other group? If moral relativism were truth, why would someone adhere to another human being's moral code in the name of something that didn't exist?
... All those blatant contradictions and logical fallacies in the name of, in their own words, "rational inquiry" and "knowledge"!
But, at the end of the day, it scares the soccer moms, I suppose. Or if it doesn't scare them, it at least makes them unhappy. But wait - that's not their goal, is it? Again, I see no reason to even call it "Satanism" if their goal is to make the world better. Why not give it some humanitarian-sounding name, if their goal isn't to troll or cause trouble? I know I probably sound.. angrier? than I usually do, but the whole thing just annoys me after awhile. ... They're not proving anything! Or being "dark" or "edgy"! This is a group of people whose philosophies are based on self-contradicting ideas that they don't even support, that took the inverted cross, the cross of the apostle Peter (a symbol of humility towards Jesus) and tried to pass it off as some kind of anti-Christian symbol.
In short, this is what I think about all the new "Satanic" things popping up in the USA:
-l- Ave Pentagrammaton! -l-
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