I'm not really offended I just don't understand people having the innability to simply let others live their lives. Every group of every kind has their bad apples, people just need to realize this and be able to live with it. Hell... I don't like some Christians but I also don't like some Atheists, Buddhists, Mormans, etc...

There is only ONE true religion.






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Hail BEER!

every belief system in the world would probably just fine if not for the people who follow them. they all basically say the same things (with the exception of the fringe weirdo shit)
Problem is - it's human nature to twist and bend these things to suit their own purposes .. fueled by greed or some other misguided notion. when it's a religious leader - and it usually is - that is the one doing the major bending and twisting .. thats when the shit hits the fan and once again some belief structure is made to look worse than the others ... but each and every single one has had it's unpleasant day.... thanks to it's members.

Most modern Satanists are atheistic. They do not believe in or worship any specific deity, Satan or otherwise. Instead, they honor what they consider the spirit of Satan. Modern Satanists tend to follow what they believe are the ideals of Satan, and present him as an ideal whose traits are to be emulated. Satan is often represented as a symbol of resistance to dominant religious traditions (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu). Some examples of organizations that follow this practice are the Church of Satan, the First Church of Satan, and the Temple of Set. This form of Satanism is generally referred to as “philosophical Satanism.”

While they are in the minority, some modern Satanists are theistic. They believe in Satan as a real entity. The Order of Nine Angels, for example, believes that Satan, as well as other “dark forces,” are individual entities beyond human control. Members of this group strive to become “one” with these sinister beings, and seek “to create new, more highly evolved individuals” through the practice of what they call “traditional Satanism” (Long 1994). This form of Satanism is generally referred to as “religious Satanism.”

Not my words but a pretty good definiton of such.

Religion is your own and noones business.

to each his own. If it doesn't affect me, why should I care?

I love myth in all its forms. As an ex-Catholic I have an especially tawdry attraction to the idea of Satanism.

But mostly it makes me giggle.

Someone missed something in their Satanic studies....Tsk tsk... LeVey used to head the "church" with a cat named Michael Aquino (no not the army dude- I don't think). They split, because Aquino wanted to go further than LeVey, and he did.

Michael Aquino formed The Temple of Set, which is "Satanic" in the sense that Pagan is pagan (Pagan=anything that isn't Christian... although that's not the technical definition). It's Satanic because it's bad. It takes the philosophy of devoloping personal power and ambition. It also teaches a sort of dark form of Hermetic sorcerey. They devote themselves not so much to the God Set, but to the idea of Set, who in the ancient Egyptian panthean, was the god of the desert, destruction, and things like that. He also, as you know, murdered and dismembered his brother Osirus.

They try to attain this state (?) ideaology(?) of xepher (kepher) which means "coming into being" or "I have come into being." (If any of these folks would have read Kant, they might have the true notion of transcendentalism and realized that someone had already cornered the market there).

@Skoof- Pantheism rules! Ah, but there are two definitions for pantheism 1.The Goddess is in everything (Thus making Her everything, thus Nature) and 2. There's always room for everyone's beliefs, provided they don't try to push them on me and that includes atheism.

Organized religion sucks ass, thus I quit training to become a High Priestess, and am not in a coven.

Believe me, I love to debate religion. I do. However, take it's totally and completely useless whether you're debating with a devout Catholic or a devout Atheist. It's totally useless. Furthermore... look at what's going on right now.

Lets take a lesson from little Witch Heather, let's take our own little beliefs and keep them in our little hearts, and talk about them ONLY among friends (we seem to be doing well here. No one's pulled out an uzi), and when holidays come we keep our little beliefs in the privacy of our own little homes so no one is offended, thus ending religious tension.

Because... Ultimately, it's between the individual and in Whomever or not they believe. For those that don't believe, what did Polonius say to Laertes (pretty sure it was Polonius to Laertes in Hamlet)? "To thine own self be true."




...I'm pretty damn sure P said that to L.... almost positive... doesn't matter, still holds... "To thine own self be true.

There every one is happy. We each have a positive.

I dont have anything to add, I just wanted to mention something:

I took a break from homework to hang around here for awhile, a decided to read this thread. I can say, beyind the shadow of a doubt, that I've learned more in these for pages than I ever could from an essay on Galileo Galilei:rolleyes:

Thank you:)