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Recent content by Topaz27

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    Atheists and agnotics, do you hope God exist?

    Definitely not the god of the Bible. I would be so dissapointed if the omnibenevolent omnipotent creator of the world really was ok with things like slavery and killing gay people for being gay.
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Yeah! So if by figure head, you mean symbolically then yes. We do not believe/worship in a literal satan. The denomination question is a interesting one though. It's not like christian denominations where catholics, methodists, lutherans etc. All basically believe the same thing with slight...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Yeah I definitely agree with the first paragraph. Funny enough satanists are both religious and humanists. And by the variation thing I just meant that if you were to go into a church every member of the congregation is going to have slightly different views. The same thing goes for satanists...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Yeah that's one of the benefits of being in a religion, compared to just being an atheist. As I'm sure you know atheism is just about one belief, but satanism is about several. It includes skepticism, pro-choice, religious pluralism, atheism, etc. So in that way I find it more useful. Of course...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    I think the wanting for ritual is partially in the community aspect. Also it just kinda seems to be something that humans like. It's shared across basically all cultures all over the world, and not just for religious/spiritual reasons. Congrats leaving the quakers though, it must not have been...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Yeah I would honestly have to agree. We do have 7 fundamental tenets. But they are intentionally vague
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    A Satanic Introduction

    It definitely is at first glance. But we don't believe in an actual satan, or any god. So we're atheists
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Here's are 7 tenets. All really great, and honestly better then the 10 commandments imo Link:THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS And then the ancient word satan, just meant an opposing force in general. It was eventually adopted by ancient jews to specifically mean opposing their god/religion...
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    Comparing Fascinating Islamist and Biblical Verses

    I mean there's plenty of reason to Bible/Quran bash. They're horribly immoral books.
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    A Satanic Introduction

    So we removed the androgynous features in fear of the statue being taken down, just because it had female breasts. So we solved the issue by adding a young boy and girl at each side of the seated baphomet. Did we want to do it? No. But there's a good chance it would've been declined if we hadn't...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Haha yeah, if you look up baphomet statue, and you'll probably find it pretty quickly. But that's actually the exact picture the sculptor used to create the statue. We used Baphomet because that's how modern media portrays satan. One goaty boy
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    A Satanic Introduction

    We're definitely not undercover. We identify as an atheistic religion after all. If you watch our "leader" Lucian Greaves talk, he almost always mentions that we're atheists. And we're definitely not just "having fun with imagery" it's a core part of our belief system, and influences many of our...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    I can 100% why you think that, because we definitely do troll extremely bigoted conservative christians. But we do more then that. We have after school clubs, fundraiser, a sense of community. I would say we definitely focused on keeping christians in check, and while that's definitely still one...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    Yeah so I'm only gonna speak about the satanic temple, because that's the religion that I'm in. There are many different kinds of satanism. We have seven fundamental tenets. About Us These pretty accurately describe out religion. But we also believe in religious pluralism. So basically if...
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    A Satanic Introduction

    So I, and the satanic temple, use the term satan as more symbolic then literal. Most of us have christian backgrounds, which is why we use a christian demon. I definitely wouldn't call us pagan, but there are some similarities. For example we celebrate some of the same holidays, and some of our...
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