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Satan, Satanism and Christianity

amorphous_constellation

amorphous_constellation

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Hay85 said:
There are lots of Satanists in this forum. This is a great opportunity to discuss about what I really think about Satanism, LHP to be more precise.
well...what I am sure about is that LHP Satanists are mostly peaceful, educated and good people.
That's because they worship a positivist deity, which is for individualistic freedom, intellectual autonomy, spirit of criticism etc

but that deity is not Satan. I'm sorry, LHP people: you don't worship the real Satan, I mean the Satan described in the Bible

Satan is the negation of intelligence, progress and culture. Satan is the emblem of the most animalistic part of man. A part made of selfishness, greed, meaninglessness, rootlessness.
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Individualistic freedom negated in exodus 20:4-5 and many others, Intellectual autonomy in 1 corinthians 1:19 (Paul was not a fan of intellect or human philosophy as shown in many other verses as well) and criticism in lets say Romans 9:20 for example. Overall the point is that the Bible does project a great need to want to control all those things and probably declaim them as being adversarial or antithetical to its message.

Now as for Satan doing all those negative things, well I'm still trying to understand how the modern dichotomous idea of Satan vs. God got to this modern age. It is kind of a curious thing. I don't know if the original horned god, the pan figure, was quite like he is portrayed now by the post-modernists. Now Pan did represent freedom and fun and something 'rootless', but I suspect the original European horned god was heavily tied into nature, and it probably used that to reflect morality as well.

Probably what it was, was just the native shaman dancing around a fire with a pair of aurochs horns. (a kind of giant cattle indigenous to europe that went extinct in the early 17th century) The first Christian missionaries who headed north probably saw that going down and the first thing they thought of was something sinister, when all it was was just the way the shaman would act.
 
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