All this O9A talk and crying about the DIR not being dark and shocking enough got me thinking about a couple of topics. First is human sacrifice.
There's been plenty of debate in history as to if Satanism should condone human sacrifice. While I agree that groups like CoS and ToS only speak against it to keep the public happy an their ratings up, I disagree with the O9A that it is adversarial or any such thing. I understand the philosophy of practicing illegal activities and adversarial energy, but human sacrifice is not adversarial. The energies forming our current world revolve around human and self sacrifice. If a "mundane" were sacrificed by a Satanic order then you've essentially martyred them and strengthen the mainstream cause. Which is more important - illegal acts or adversarial ones?
It's interesting that both sides create contradictions about this. ToS - for example - cares about the image. There's no coddling of those without the black flame, they worship a Prince of Darkness archetype. Start condoning human sacrifice and congregation size - aka income - will drop. Meanwhile the O9A strengthens the christian cause by martyring people in the name of Satan.
Interesting to me.
There's been plenty of debate in history as to if Satanism should condone human sacrifice. While I agree that groups like CoS and ToS only speak against it to keep the public happy an their ratings up, I disagree with the O9A that it is adversarial or any such thing. I understand the philosophy of practicing illegal activities and adversarial energy, but human sacrifice is not adversarial. The energies forming our current world revolve around human and self sacrifice. If a "mundane" were sacrificed by a Satanic order then you've essentially martyred them and strengthen the mainstream cause. Which is more important - illegal acts or adversarial ones?
It's interesting that both sides create contradictions about this. ToS - for example - cares about the image. There's no coddling of those without the black flame, they worship a Prince of Darkness archetype. Start condoning human sacrifice and congregation size - aka income - will drop. Meanwhile the O9A strengthens the christian cause by martyring people in the name of Satan.
Interesting to me.