No, just protecting human rights. The Satanic Church has never endorsed abuse of any kind and actively tries to prevent it. Actually read about a religion before judging it.
Some of my favorite of the 11 rules of Satanism:
1 Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
5 Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
9 Do not harm little children.
Honestly all 11 are golden.
My personal favorite is 11.
"When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."
You all realize that the Satanic Temple is purposely saying all this stuff to attract more worshippers. Just because they say it, doesn’t mean they’d follow it.
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Yeah just like the Ten Commandments. Even though they are the set rules for their respective religion it doesn't mean they are being followed.
Name one act of terrorism that has been committed by the Satanic Church. They don't even worship Satan. Satanism is an atheistic religion meaning that they hold no belief in a god(s).
There is an entire wiki page on Christian terrorism while finding a single example of an actual LaVeyan Satanist committing some heinous act is quite difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Satanism isn't actually that bad, in fact I agree with a lot of it's rules. I don't mind what religion is putting up billboards like that cause it's a good message
There's one of these groups here. They're political activists, not a religion. They just use Satanic in the name because they think it's edgy and it gets them attention.
The Satanic Temple are awesome people. They don't actually worship Satan, mind you. They just use him as a symbol to trigger all the fundamentalist Christians. Most of them are actually atheists/agnostics and they advocate for religious freedom and against the prejudice against atheism that is so prevalent in the US. The founder is a total badass too.
Thank you. It just drives me nuts when people downvote without stating why. I know it's not their responsibility or obligation to say why they disagree, but I just always found it to be the common sense thing to do. So that you can have a discussion and maybe even persuade the other person to change their mind instead of making them wonder who disagrees with them and why.
Yea, some of my favorite Bible verses are about children.
Psalm 137:9 "Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!"
Translation: Kill your kids to prove your devotion to me.
Leviticus 20:9 "For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him."
Translation: If you kid gets angsty just kill him.
Yeah, Catholics aren't Bible literalists like some of our Protestant brothers and Sisters
Translation: we take an understanding of history to contextualize Bible verses and know that many of them are meant as an artistic expression instead of a direct command from God
You don't have to be a literalist to do what the Bible commands. The fact that your holy book contains these orders in any way is a sign of how evil it is.
Yo man we're just tryna live by what Jesus said, love your neighbor, love God, and don't worry about the rest of it. Jesus said "whatever you do to the least of my people, This you do unto me" and I take that seriously. Everyone has Christ in them, and so when we hurt each other we're hurting God. If you see something evil in that then look again, I just want to follow the greatest commandment of all: to love God and my neighbor
Yea and we also have "Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace on earth! No, rather a sword lf you love your father, mother, sister, brother, more than me, you are not worthy of being mine." and "Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death." The issue is that for every good thing Jesus has done there are dozens of evil things. Jesus has been caught openly lying and deceiving people all over the Bible.
Hey if you want to think that Jesus was actually evil, I can't stop you. I might be interested in hearing why you think 1.6 billion people think they're following a good guy when He's really isn't, but to each their own, man. I love the guy, He loves me, but whatever you wanna do or think is between you and Him
Everyone believed the Earth was flat. The amount of people believing something adds nothing to whether or not it's a good thing. Millions of germans were following Hitler, does that mean he was doing the right thing?
But the 1.6 billion people are wrong, Jesus is actually evil, and you know the truth abt it. Alright. Just outta curiosity now, just to see how deep this goes (and btw you can stop answering my questions at any time, you have absolutely no obligation to me or to anyone for that matter) do you think that the things people do for Jesus (love one another, volunteer, help other people) are evil too? Or just Him?
The issue is that people are claiming he is good and perfect when his own book says otherwise. It's people going against what is in front of their face. Just because people follow an evil man doesn't mean they're evil as well. They had evil parents who had evil parents who forced Christianity upon them at a young age poisoning their mind and ruining their future.
I mean for me, I converted. I saw a bunch of happy people who were doing good things in the world and I wanted to be one of them. I remember I even felt upset bc no one my whole life had told me there was a specific joy that came with being with God that nothing else in the world could provide. I hope you find a faith one day. It doesn't even have to be Christianity. But as someone whose been on the hardcore-atheist side and the Christian side, I can tell you the Christian side's a lot more hopeful and fun. Btw if you ever have any questions about my faith or Christianity (even hardball, atheist questions like 'how can an all loving, all powerful God exist in a world with evil") I'd love to answer them
Plenty of good people aren't religious. It sounds like you were lonely and wanted to be a part of something so you chose religion. I hope I find my faith one day as well. Every time I discover that I'm believing something without evidence, faith, I find evidence to support that belief and if I cannot find any, then I was obviously wrong.
That's not a hardball question btw. That's regarded as one of the most basic and simple questions we can ask and is known as the Problem of Evil.
I mean, God doesn't have any evidence for Him or any evidence against Him. I hope you know that. Science can only answer questions of "how" never questions of "Why"
You know your philosophy terms! Nice
Actually we can prove that Yahweh of the Bible doesn't exist! He is contradictory in the descriptions about him and paradoxes in how he exists which proves that it doesn't. You cannot prove that a floating shape that only I can see doesn't exist, but if I were to give details such as it being a square with three corners, then you'd know that it doesn't exist because it is impossible. When you start describing and giving details of an unfalsifiable thing, you open it up to be disproven. The existence of a god(s) is unfalsifiable until you start describing said God.
But He's God. He can totally be contradictory. Just bc we can logic out how He is, He's God. And with God, all things are possible. Human reason cannot begin to fathom God
That's special pleading and is intellectually dishonest. I don't mean to sound like an ass, but I honestly feel pity for you because I know you're smart enough to realize how absolutely stupid that statement is.
Why are you against her marrying a christian? I'm just wondering because I grew up in an irreligious place and never really gave this kind of situation much thought. Is it because of different traditions/holidays?
I don't want her to marry anyone who isn't Jewish. Does that make it better. I don't want conflicting holidays and traditions. I've seen from experience the Jewish culture gets ignored while the goy culture takes over.
Not sure I agree with your whole "us vs them" dichotomy, I'm personally for religious freedom. However it's her life, and if she shares your beliefs, she won't marry a non-Jewish person. If not, it's her life and her choices and there's not much you can do about it.
Do you live in Israel, by the way?
1 Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
5 Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
9 Do not harm little children.
Honestly all 11 are golden.
"When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."
There is an entire wiki page on Christian terrorism while finding a single example of an actual LaVeyan Satanist committing some heinous act is quite difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
>gets downvoted
Point proven.
"My religion doesn't believe in murdering people" okay well hopefully most serious religions don't
Psalm 137:9 "Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!"
Translation: Kill your kids to prove your devotion to me.
Leviticus 20:9 "For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him."
Translation: If you kid gets angsty just kill him.
Translation: we take an understanding of history to contextualize Bible verses and know that many of them are meant as an artistic expression instead of a direct command from God
That's not a hardball question btw. That's regarded as one of the most basic and simple questions we can ask and is known as the Problem of Evil.
You know your philosophy terms! Nice
Do you live in Israel, by the way?