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[S]Realize that she mainly thinks that this is a funny joke.[/S] As if this is funny in any retrospect.
It's
hilarious. I nearly fall out of my chair laughing at how serious some of you guys get. I mean, someone has even sent me a PM telling me that they don't like me anymore.
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But! Just a piece of trivia for you nice folks out there:
The original Hebrew term, satan, is a noun from a verb meaning primarily to, “obstruct, oppose,†as it is found in Numbers 22:22, 1 Samuel 29:4, Psalms 109:6. Ha-Satan is traditionally translated as “The accuser,†or “The adversary.â€
The suffix -ism means "the belief of".
I think it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together ...
Satan wasn't his name. Satan is the demonized title that was given to him.
Lucifer (Latin:
lucem ferre - light-bearer) actually stems from Vulgate, which is just the name of the planet Venus. And well, it's the morning star because... well, that's what Venus is.
And what did Lucifer do? He questioned his own enslavement. He questioned having to bow to humans, to which he felt he was better than, and he questioned God. Why should God be better or more superior than anyone else? Why should we have to bow before others?
He was tired of bowing. He was tired of being repressed. I can't say I blame him. After all, if I were a Seraphim I would get tired
real ****ing fast of flying around all day chanting "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts;" wouldn't you?
It may not sound bad if you distance yourself from it, but put yourself in their shoes. They are forced to do this all day every day, and not only this, but they, beings who could easily single-handedly best over 100,000 men, the first of gods creations, are told to bow down before men. And why? Only because God says so.
If God were a political leader today, we would all be appalled.
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Satanism can say all it wants about freedom and crap like that, but realize the name is modeled after a evil-demonic entity that has damned humanity and made this world the horrible place it is. If you want to worship "freedom" modeling your deity or central figure after someone who wants nothing more than the destruction of humanity is ... interesting.
Makes you wonder it's true intentions.
Actually, Satan tried to give people knowledge. That tends to say that he was trying to help us. But God didn't want us to have knowledge, no, it's hard to control an intelligent population. It's better to subjugate the ignorant that will blindly follow without question.
And if you follow some earlier slightly different texts, the whole tempting business was God's doing. Not only that, but he worked for God as one of his Angels, tempting men.
Anyways, as I mentioned multiple times, only Occultism and Demonology worship Satan. The others are non-theistic belief systems. Is that really so hard to comprehend?
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Also, since you talked bad about prayers ... Where does this ceremonial non-purposeful magic (Which makes no logical sense if you think about it. If it doesn't have any purpose, why does the organization practice/believe it to begin with?) get it's power from?
I don't want to make this into a religious debate, because I recognize that some people might actually follow some of these points. But alas, like TA, I'm merely presenting the other side.
Nah, I already stated I think all of the magic hoo ha is retarded. Most of Satanism has nothing to do with religion anyways, it's a non-religious belief system.
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BTW, If you can't tell, I'm a Christian.
Really? *gasp*!
I had no idea!
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Also, Baphomet and inverse pentagrams scare me. They have a very strong and powerful symbolic meaning. Very different than any "wisdom" that you speak of.
Indoctrination?
Success!
Read into it what you want. That's what they mean. Religion fears knowledge. It's evident in the text itself that people should not be allowed to have knowledge. They should just worship, and not just worship, but with their own free will because then not only do we force them to do it, but we get the satisfaction of knowing that they chose to do it.
It's some real sadistic sick bull**** if you ask me. God's one sick twisted little ****.