So, of course, you can show an example of an atheist getting possesed.
If you believe in Satans and demons and possessions, you believe in supernatural woo. You can't change language just to suit yourself or your beliefs.
As I said, you choose to believe in supernatural woo.
So are you saying that English encapsulates all types of beliefs, even those that originate in much more precise and ancient langues such as Sanskrit?
I don't believe in the supernatural. The actual term for what I believe is
probably closer to "
preternatural" as I see no reason why any phenomena would be in direct violation with natural laws. In fact you can't accurately call me an atheist or theist, since likewise those are also two inadequate categories.
Pantheist maybe, or transthiest. But
not theist or supernaturalist.
Even historically there wasn't just the concept of natural and supernatural, and the term preternatural was kind of a halfway word for something that didn't override / contradict nature.
That aside, there isn't a proper English word for my position on the matter.
Those two positions are not in conflict with either Hinduism or Satanism. There is a long history of Hinduism having atheistic and realism sects and everything in between that and hard theism and idealism, and Satanism has it's own atheistic and symbolic sects that incorporate magic as at the very least psychodrama if not something suggested to influence events in a natural way yet beyond our current understanding.
So no, you're trying to paint my beliefs to suit your language, when my beliefs are not rooted in the culture of the language we are using.
In the case of possession, we could say that many cases (such as an atheist being possessed) is a case of obsession or being taken over by part of their own psyche. I mentioned thoughtforms... this is something that exists because the mind supports it's existence. It doesn't exist on it's own but by the belief in it. A person may not realize it's semi-autonomous state but the weird thing about the brain is that it's not some discrete, clean cut machine. It's messy and complicated, and part of someone's impulses or personality can over take a person's life.
An example is the Jungian Shadow. We could also think of the term "someone's bad side" to give examples of parts of our personality or psyche. When one slice of our personality or psyche dominates our mind or life, we can say we are possessed by it as it's grown to act as if it is something entirely onto it's own.
That's an example of one type of possession and describes what many people falsely attribute to spirits entering the body. I think spirits can enter the body, but it's not nearly as easy or common as people tend to think it is and it usually doesn't happen without trying to make it happen.