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Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] by lostgame on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:20PM (#20816547)
But...Satanists don't worship Satan.

The Church of Satan doesn’t believe in the devil. It doesn’t even recognise ‘Satan’ as a physical or spiritual being. As far as the Church is concerned, there is no such thing as heaven or hell.

And human sacrifice? Like, that kind of thing might happen in the Highest Orders of the Left-Hand Path, the Skull and Bones-type societies George W. Bush was a part of - so conspirators claim - like, I want to be expressly clear that suggesting Satanists make human sacrifices is akin to saying all Muslims are terrorists. Seriously. You're just discrediting a group of people who have enough troubles being recognized as valid to start.

I assure you, I have visited branches of the Church of Satan, and they are actually filled generally with very good people, whose philosophy is mostly that of self-love and not taking any bullshit, combined with the dogmatic practice of Ceremonial Magick.

It just wasn't my cup of tea. I have enjoyed more of what I've seen from Thelemic orders, which do not identify as Satanic.

Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] by ralusek on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:08AM (#20817569)
I know that HackerNews isn't reddit, but I couldn't resist.

https://i.imgflip.com/392ehi.jpg

Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] by inflatableDodo on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:48PM (#20816625)
The Church of Satan is just a way of selling libertarian humanism to the dissaffected children of middle class Christians, by inverting some biblical tropes and going woo a lot though. I tend to think of actual Satanists to be more like the mental ones found in European royalty during the medieval period.
Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] by lostgame on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:04AM (#20816688)
Hey - not my cup of tea, either, as I said - but I am saying lumping Satanists and human sacrifice together is like lumping Muslims and terrorism together.

Sure, it might happen, in only the most extreme cases, but it's certainly not the norm, and it makes people who try to take their faith seriously - even if, yes, LaVeyan Satanism is simply libertarian humanism combined with, quite honestly, a fairly weak system of Ceremonial Magick, if it makes them happy, let them do it.

I don't agree with Catholicism, either, but I'm not running around saying all priests rape little boys, even though there is far more evidence of that, than actual human sacrifice in Satanism.

Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] by inflatableDodo on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:47AM (#20816863)
I think the clearest distinguishing line that can be broadly drawn, is between followers of theistic and non-theistic Satanism.

The latter do tend towards being the awfully nice people you've been describing, who are always making sure that everyone is fine in the mosh pit.

The former, however, can conversely tend towards the type of person who is far too enthusiastic about the technical details of the blood gutters in their unnervingly large collection of ceremonial knives.

Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video] by lostgame on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:26AM (#20820082)
In my years of practicing Ceremonial Magick, in and out of various Orders, and my studies of Satanism, I have never met such people, would consider them an extreme rarity, and again, would draw the Musilms are terrorists parallel.

There are plenty of theistic Satanists I know who are also great people.