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Originally posted by Lovisa:
Please tell me what u think of satanism and satanists.
My opinion is that they have the same right as we other ppl do just because they have satan as good and god as bad they're not evil they are as normal as we are.
A satanist doesn't worship satan nor do they think of him as a god they only think him as one in god's place not a god itself. Some satanists do overdo their "satanistic role" with black magic and all that but most of 'em only think that the rules and commandment is better that the other religions.
I don't think we should look down at 'em we should let 'em have a part in our society as everyone else do.
I bet many of u disagree with what I have said here so tell me what u think and correct me if I'm wrong anywhere, I bet I am... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Alrighty, Satanism if you are really talking about the offshoot of Judeaic christianity is naturally the worship of satan, this should not be confused with Wicca or paganism which is simply the worship of natural spirits, It was demonized by the church as satan worship because of the commandment "I am a jealous God, you shall have no other gods before me."
Satanists DO worship Satan though they might not refer to him by that name. There is an official church of satan, there is a real black mass. Whether they believe God himself is evil or simply would rather not bother with God at all thats their choice. Now the Church of Satan has gone through reform, it used to require all sorts of now illegal things which were removed as time moved on.
As for not looking down on them, you can't help but have some people, mainly people of the complete opposite faith, look down on him, its like being a Jew and your next door neighbhor worships Hitler. I don't need to know that you worship satan or god for that matter anyhow. If you held close to the Christian faith you would probably be offended by satanists, in fact the name Satan in Hebrew means Enemy, or opposer, the name satan stands for the enemy of man or god. If you want to go deeper, satan is later named Lucifer in Miltons Paradise lost I believe, lucifer being his angelic name before the fall meaning Light Bearer Luci=light, fer=to hold or carry, then you can go even farther into the old testament demonolgy where satan goes under so many names. The dragon, Baal(meaning lord, it was used by babylonians which deified their emperors), baalzebub(a combination of both persian I believe as well as babylonian Baal), behemoth (From sumerian mythos I believe), asmodaeus(origninally asmodaeus meant evil spirit but eventually became used as chief evil spirit), the devil, the fiend, ect, there are possibly more names for satan than for god, aw gehenna, im going off on random tangents here, anyhow, don't ask, don't tell, that goes for all religions. You tell and your asking for it either way.