Originally posted by Grand_Moff_GavWell, I don't think it is about empowerment beyond reason. I think it is more about freeing humans from trivial burdens. To not condemn their desires as sins. It's certainly strongly countering against what LaVey saw as the wrongs of Religion. To me, similar to Christianity, I can find pieces I like in the philosophy of LaVeyian Satanism, admittedly even more than with Christianity.
Hmm, I'm not sure if the attempt to empower humans is as innocent as it seems. Sure its a nice idea, but if a person gets into a fixation that they are more powerful than they are, bad things happen.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, I don't think it is about empowerment beyond reason. I think it is more about freeing humans from trivial burdens. To not condemn their desires as sins. It's certainly strongly countering against what LaVey saw as the wrongs of Religion. To me, similar to Christianity, I can find pieces I like in the philosophy of LaVeyian Satanism, admittedly even more than with Christianity.
Freedom from the oppression of superstition and the chains of lies...
Of course, I wouldn't like it because I do believe humanity is in a fallen state, but then again I see humans as wondrous beings capable of just as much good as evil, more so perhaps.
Originally posted by BetrayedUnicorn
Satinism is just a religon created to be as imoral and bad as you can and when you do this you have no one to answer to,so IMO it is just a poor excuse to be bad and not have to answer for it. IMO obviously.
Nah thats not the impression I got, but there is less guilt.
Here is a civil interview I found with Peter Gilmore, the High Priest of the Church of Satan: