You say that you ran from Christianity for over 20 years, but I am curious how heavily Christian your area is. Peer pressure is a very strong force, I wouldn't be surprised that you eventually gave into the social dynamics of your culture. Satanism is something that aims to make the person individualistic and avoid such social dynamics from affecting the person, and to truly due their own things without others ruling all of their life and decisions, to escape the hive mind dynamics of society.
What if most of the world won't sign your contract? What if you see other countries who have rejected your contract and are killing people? What over arching contract allows evil to be stopped in other societies? You have said what people might choose as morals, you have not said anything about what right and wrong actually are? You have actually made morality a matter of popular opinion. That would have resulted in Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr, and Rosa Parks in Jail. Great system.
I don't want to argue with poes (as per the bolded part). If people reject morality en masse, it fails then to be what is moral. Simple as that; morality is a human invention.
you have not said anything about what right and wrong actually are
Right is what you like, wrong is what you don't like. Simple as that, "right" is the desirable state or behavior, wrong is the undesirable state or behavior. What people desire or not desire in the behavior of others can be based on their own emotions, as it is with some people, or it can be based on what is the most beneficial for the most amount of people.
There is no value in mere assertion
This isn't my "mere assertion", this is ethics theory. It's called moral relativism, however I strongly lean to amoralism more and more every single day. Ave Satanas.
Is the self sacrifice of a man who saves another and gives his life, in his well being? When real problems exist and it will mean a million wives will loose their husband there is no reason in your system by which they should loose their husbands and sons to stop another society from destroying yet another one.
When things get tough it is God not social contracts that are appealed to.
Because the sheep of the Right Hand Path are too weak to be motivated by anything but sadistic torture and brute force of their gods.
When society requires justification for the rights of men it is God not social contracts that are used. When meaning, purpose, origin, destination are desired as well as almost every other profound idea is examined social contracts and even science are impotent but as usuall God is perfectly applicable.
Nonsense, I don't need divine justification to agree with people that rape is against it, I just need a written or verbal agreement. We call this agreement the law of the land; where I live it's called the Federal, State, and local laws. And it's enforced with the understanding of being in the interests of the people, with balances, checks, elections, ect ect.
I do not care if semantics makes you call morality subjective, objective, or supernumerary morals, if God exists it is universal and absolute. It is also objective as our opinion has no input.
It's not semantics; everything works through the laws of function. The only objective laws that objectively exist are those of physics, which governs everything that happens. There is no "immoral" in this system because the "wrong" can't happen. The fact that "wrong" things can happen in the "moral law" proves that it's not absolute, because if it was, the "wrong" would be impossible to happen.
God exists, but he doesn't dictate morality. Satan is God, and Satan tests us, but Satan doesn't but down petty and personal laws with no objectivity. You assert that morality is objective and from God. Prove it; tell me why this is so. What makes morality from "God" [Yahweh] objective in any way?
That is pure opinion and everyone including you acts as if objective standards exist everyday.
It is virtually instinctual. Your moral system is completely insuffecient for the needs of society.
I have no morality other than to not hurt people who haven't wronged me or who I can make an ally.
As for what I described, it seems to have worked for thousands of years. It doesn't mind if you think it's divine or not, that's how it works. That, or with more threats of violence. Violence, even imaginary hellfire, is a really good motivator for good behavior when one is too weak to act responsibly on their own.
That is why Satanism is not for the masses, why too many are too weak or incompetent to walk the path, they do not have the power, self-control, discipline, or willpower to control their actions without paralyzing fear. If you need either eternal pain or eternal pleasure to motivate your actions in life, you are of weak will. Satanism moves beyond this, and says that one should take responsibility for their actions and be internally motivated by themselves to do good or harm, not by an external source such as "God" to do either good or harm.
Hell is almost never included in a sermon. I do not even think it is possible to believe based on fear alone. This is simply not true.
This is a blatantly untrue, I've heard it quite often, and the implications are always there when they talk about "salvation".
I came to be a Christian the same way every single other one I know did. I discovered it to be true. I was reading about Christ not Hell when I was saved. It is not faith in something you wish to avoid that results in salvation.
Accepting Jesus to taste eternal pleasure is just as bad as not "sinning" to avoid eternal pain. It's all based on desirable or undesirable physical stimuli.
It is faith in who Christ is andwhat he did that matters.
Blind faith is known to blind. Luckily I've never put blind faith in anything, and only ever believed in what I have seen. Ave Satanas.
However to never fear that which is likely a reality is as stupid as it gets.
Hell is extremely unlikely to exist, I can't say that there is even a remote possibility that it does. There is much evidence of the development of the idea of Hell, where it started, and how the idea changed. I can indulge you if you want.
I hardly ever even mention Hell in my Christian life. I only wind up discussing it because critics are obsessed with it or rather what they think it is.
The fact that a god claims (or so Xtians say) it exists, shows he is cruel and sadistic. If he is really all-powerful, he could easily make it so that everyone goes to Heaven. It's simply comforting beliefs either way.
