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Well thankyou sweetheart. Let me see, not christian, don't believe in god, don't care much for sins, aftelife is what I wake up to in the mornin', woops I almost forgot the clowns that don't exist. I guess satan would fall into that category, well he does for me.
I don't care if it IS intended to be taken metaphorically, any way you spin it - twas downright 'evil' (i dont believe in evil), how is telling your followers to go commit genocide against a people for someone done hundreds of years earlier supposed to impart some allegorical truth other than people are stupid and the one giving orders is vile.
There are a million questions here... but, they're all easy...
1) Satanists do not worship anything like Christians do, nor do they believe anything in the bible. Most are completely Atheist -- Satan is symbolic, etc. Some believe in Satan as a God, and some don't. Neither worship! Any worshiping puts you in the Christianity line even if it is reverse worship. (You need to believe in the Hebrew God to offend him.) If they believe in Satan generally they have a direct experience of that fact due to the mystical practices they subject themselves to -- it is not belief oriented like a traditional religion and most of the theistic Satanists whom believe in Satan were Atheists at some point. In either case, Satan's name is used because it is the colloquial term that the normal every day person may recognize. Most religions have been named by their enemies -- funny enough... Beyond that we're focused on self-expression, rational thinking, hedonism (humans natural state), and individuality. Sounds like a horrible religion in in either case doesn't it?
2) The bible took a Sumerian God Enki, who was also the Babylonian god EA and decided to make THAT God their enemy with a new title. Makes sense considering the Hebrews were getting their teeth kicked in for hundreds of years by their neighbors. (Hebrews were their neighbors pets for quite some time aka slaves.) The Egyptian God Set seems to be the same guy as well -- all of these existed long before the bible even existed. A lot of demons recognized by Christians and others are simply Gods of other cultures or from way back in history. Technically, Satan existed first...
3) _The Satanic Bible_ is hardly definitive and factually it's about 50% plagiarized from other works. LaVey at least admitted that his magic system was more symbolic and psycho-dramatic than real. (Nietzsche, John Dee, Ayn Rand, Ragnar Redbeard, and others) It delineates most of the Atheist perspective of Satanism, but only half of Satanists are Atheists. There really aren't any books by the "Devil Believing" folks mostly because of the misconceptions of the public and media. Its a much more internal religion and really doesn't need to be public anyway.
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Lucifer doesn't exist in the Bible.
