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The whole concept of it is stupid, it is literally a way to make people fear some stupid being so they'll do as they're told.
I don't see the point in arguing over it.
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Sure, one could argue that religion was a method of controlling communities and what not, but most religions promote peace, forgiveness, and goodness (can't think of better word). They provide meaning and purpose as well.
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So you're entitled, self-indulged, and selfish?
Your church's words, not mine.
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to clarify: this is talking about the Church of Satan (the biggest of the satanistic religions)
Where does it say that? With due respect, this is not what satanism is about. The nine cardinal sins of satanism are:
Stupidity
Pretentiousness
Solipsism
Self-deceit
Herd Conformity
Lack of Perspective
Forgetfulness of Past Orthodoxies
Counterproductive Pride
Lack of Aesthetics
In fact, Satanism is not related to the worship of Satan at all, it's dedicated to the wellbeing of the human body and material world.
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To us, Satan is the symbol that best suits the nature of we who are carnal by birth—people who feel no battles raging between our thoughts and feelings, we who do not embrace the concept of a soul imprisoned in a body. He represents pride, liberty, and individualism—qualities often defined as Evil by those who worship external deities
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Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling. Worshipping any God is thus worshipping by proxy those who invented that God. Since the Satanist understands that all Gods are fiction, instead of bending a knee in worship to—or seeking friendship or unity with—such mythical entities, he places himself at the center of his own subjective universe as his own highest value.
We Satanists are thus our own “Gods,” and as beneficent “deities” we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm.
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One could even argue that under these principles, all Atheists are Satanists. Even this Satanic Temple argues the same.
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Both atheistic and humanistic, their stated mission is "to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people".
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