I noticed that the majority of topics in the religion forum center around Christianity and its God. God gets either praised or bashed, and Jesus gets either idolized or made fun of.
Well what about SATAN ?
Why are thier SO FEW THREADS dedicated to him ?
This is the OFFICIAL SATAN THREAD !
Please feel free to worship, praise, bless, insult, curse, or critisize SATAN in any way you choose !
I think there needs to be a BALANCE. We have lots of Christians promoting God's word....we have lots of Athiests and Agnostics ignoring God's word, but we dont have ANYBODY speaking on behalf of the good ol' devil.
If I am going to believe in Satan, then I might as well believe in the Bogeyman living in my closet, the Easter Bunny bringing me colored eggs and the Tooth Fairy leaving me a dollar under my fluffy pillow.
Im gonna be mature with this thread and say, I disagree with Satan and his moronic, sinful, bad deed, religion. It makes the most chaos and as much destruction as Atheist do.
__________________ (MEMBER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
The more you question it, the less you will understand.
Atheist cause chaos? Last time I checked people weren't killed over different views of atheism, wars weren't fought over atheism, people weren't persecuted over opposing atheistic beliefs... Religion/Belief in God(s) is a major cause of chaos and atrophy as much as it is order and restoration.
This is the kind of ignorance I was hoping someone would display sooner or later...actually more people have been killed and tortured in the NAME OF GOD throughout History than in the name of Satan.
Kind of IRONIC no ?
BTW, religion causes more disunity, conflict, and bigotry than Athiesm ever can
Or the other way around; more people have died for God. Either way you look at it, there will always be those extremist who call for blood to equate with faith.
IIRC satan, by its etymology, simply means "adversary", a concept rather than an individual.
If you're referring to Lucifer. The story really puts god in a bad light rather than Lucifer. It's basically an allegory conveying that to defy authority or to strive for more than you are is bad. And IMO defiance of authority isn't always bad, and to strive to better oneself isn't either. If one even looks at the name Lucifer, it basically means "bearer of light", why name someone who's to be the embodiment of all things bad so contradictorily.
Salem Witch Trials, Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, and near Native American extermination are examples of atrocities where innocent people were tortured and slaughtered in the name of God. And that's only from the Christian side...i didnt even mention the amounts of innocents that have been slaughtered in the name of Allah and Yahweh from Judaism (all supposed to be the same God)
The amounts of people that have been killed in the name of Satan is farr less than those who have been tortured and killed in the name of God.
And yet the millions (if not thousands) killed during the time of Roman Persecution should not simply be allowed to go over looked. And besides (since you choose Catholicism) your only picking out the few areas of fault compared to the large areas of contribution. And for the sake of argument, Native American (unless you specifically are targeting South America) "extermination" did not occur in the North well enough to consider it amongst the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition. Secondly, still considering numbers, only 22 [recorded] deaths were accounted for in the Salem Witch Trial (even though I am defending the puritan religion). And so the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition (~700 years) can not account, or fully surmise thereof, 2,000+ years of religion.
__________________
Last edited by King of Blades on Oct 25th, 2006 at 01:55 AM
You really need to get a prescription pill to cure you of "Stupid Remark Making". Atheists are unfairly stereotyped by moronic staements such as yours. Name one instance of Atheism that sparked "Chaos and Destruction." If anything, Christianity has caused infinitely more chaos and destruction, all in the name of your God. Get your facts straight, you lunatic. The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler is that God is more proficient at genocide.
__________________
“Dreams shape the world."
Last edited by Impediment on Oct 25th, 2006 at 03:01 AM
Indeed, and that was a powerful concept in many early religions - accept you place in the scheme of things. Try and buck the order and you'll burn - which is a nice way of keeping the unhappy, starving masses in order, if they think it is a sin to try and improve their lot it will insure they don't rebel and cut of your head.
Still Lucifer is a fascinating character in literary terms. His portrayal in fiction is often more interesting and engaging then those of "pillars of virtue" - often as Lucifer is more human, and villains, intelligent villains, are often more explorative of things like the human condition.
There is a reason why Inferno is still the most read part of Dante's Divine Comedy.
__________________
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
Ummm.... first of all so called "Satanists" are no actually attributed to any real criminal activity.
While it isn't completely unknown for a criminal to scrawl so called "satanic" symbols at a crime scene more often then not these have no real historical or mythological grounding and are merely stupid teens thinking they do - over used symbols like pentacles and the like with no understanding of the symbolic relevance - they simply think, due to mass media, it represents something more.
Unless you have some sort of statistics to support the claim that Satanic religion is linked to chaos and destruction I suggest you refrain from making such statements, or linking them to Atheists. And of course if you do people will feel justified in listing in great deal the chaos and destruction that can be attributed to every major religion.
__________________
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
KMC Community Forums
Satan - The Prince of Darkness
*I cant WAIT til JIA reads this !
Oct 24th, 2006 10:55 PM
SATAN
