why do you think quoting the bible is sin?
He didn't say it was. He said quote mining is a sin, by which I presume he means that cherry picking scriptures to present a false impression of what the ENTIRE Bible says is dishonest.
If Satan is just symbol or metaphor then there is no subject or worship and thus this confirms Satanism isn't religion.
It's not a religion to me, either, since it has no gods or supernaturalism. I realize that some people consider atheistic worldviews like atheistic Buddhism religions, but I classify them separately. This atheistic form of Satanism functions more as an advocate for secularism, or keeping religion out of government, and makes a nice adjunct to the organizations litigating for secularism such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Telling someone to jump off the roof is good?
He asked if someone had read the Bible, by which I presume he meant the whole Bible. Satan is the more sympathetic character, not Yahweh. Of course, Satan is depicted as evil because he was rebellious, and was then tarred with the role of sadist. But if one looks at the whole Bible, its deity is the sadist, who drowned nearly the whole world in a fit of pique, and who tormented Job and killed his children on a lark.
Remove the sadism, and Satan is a good symbol for enlightenment values - reason over faith, the empowerment of man, education over indoctrination, citizen over subject, etc.. You saw the tenets of Satanism posted by
@Subduction Zone . They could come out of the Affirmations of Humanism.
Twain pithily quipped, "Heaven for the weather, hell for the company." And Billy Joel captures that same spirit here. He's rejecting heaven and Yahweh just like Satan:
And they say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better, but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun
It's obvious that trolling continues don't you think so?
You can call it trolling, but its secularists forcefully pushing back at the incursions of the church into their lives in a secular state. I realize that many if not most Christians see the church as good and its critics evil, but those critics see it the other way around. They see themselves as holding the moral high ground and the church as behaving immorally - something new for the church. One of their favorite tactics is highlighting the Christian sense of entitlement and exceptionalism by using their own rules against them and watching them take down their religious displays rather than allow religious freedom and diversity. The Christians put up a cross and consider it wholesome and holy, the Satanists erect the image of Baphomet, and the Christians object and take their displays down rather that permit any alternative opinion to be expressed if they can prevent it.
