Xelasnave.1947
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Why not worship tits?Why not worship Satan? People worship serial killers, football players, pop stars, all of who tend to be tits.
I expect many do.
Alex
Why not worship tits?Why not worship Satan? People worship serial killers, football players, pop stars, all of who tend to be tits.
Arrrrh - tongue hanging out pantingWhy not worship tits?
I expect many do.
Alex
Your question is a non-sequitur. Satanism, in any of its forms, don't worship "evil" either as an abstract concept or as a concrete figure. Most modern Satanists are LaVeyan Satanists, or otherwise an offshoot of LaVey's ideas or organization. The Church of Satan, as founded Anton LaVey in 1966, uses the imagery and iconography of Satan, combined with the spectacle and theatre of high religious ceremony, as both a path of spiritual fulfillment and as a philosophical grandstanding. LaVeyan Satanists aren't theistic, they generally don't believe in any gods, let alone the Christian god or Satan, as literal beings, though they often do integrate elements of the Western Occult tradition and Ceremonial Magic into their rituals. LaVey was also rather interested in Ayn Rand Objectivism, Social Darwinism, and a host of might-makes-right ideas; LaVeyans have distanced themselves from those extremes since his death, but LaVeyan Satanism nevertheless emphasizes personal liberty, self-actualization, autonomy, and personal will. Satanists of that stripe, while not worshiping Satan as a deity, effectively worship the concepts that the literary Satan stood for: the apotheosis of the Self.To be honest I know very little about it, yet it seems counter intuitive. What is there to be gained by worshiping evil?
...which is evil.LaVey was also rather interested in Ayn Rand Objectivism, Social Darwinism, and a host of might-makes-right ideas; LaVeyans have distanced themselves from those extremes since his death, but LaVeyan Satanism nevertheless emphasizes personal liberty, self-actualization, autonomy, and personal will. Satanists of that stripe, while not worshiping Satan as a deity, effectively worship the concepts that the literary Satan stood for: the apotheosis of the Self.
Not in their viewpoint. You have to consider things from others' point of view, at the very least to understand where they're coming from or why they're doing what they're doing. But this isn't like some kind of extremist political ideology. Self-actualization and self-love are very positive, powerful things....which is evil.