About Satanism...?

Question

I would like to know anything about Satanism. That forum thread by "daemons.damnation" peaked my interest.

I'm not looking to be Satanist, I just want to know about it. I pray everyday, study the Bible, and worship.

Answer 1

Satanism is very misunderstood. Satanists are not devil worshippers, they don't actually believe that Satan exists. The following was written by a Satanist:

"Satan is not a real, living entity, conscious or a physical thing that can be interacted with. It is a symbol, something ethereal, something that basically doesn't exist except as an emotional attachment and personal dream. Just like Buddhists do not worship Buddha, Satanists hold up Satan as an ultimate principal rather than an object of literal worship. Satan inspires and provokes people, like all (honest) religions the ultimate point is self-help. God believers have a different opinion on what Satan is, but their opinion is a result of their religion. Satanism's Satan is much more eclectic and multicultural than to be defined by Christianity or Islam."

Satanism can be considered to be:
- Atheistic. There are no Gods in Satanism.

- Not dualistic: souls and bodies are indivisible and there is no war between cosmic good and cosmic evil

- Autodeists - we worship ourselves. The only God we can ever perceive is in our own existential world. We are each a God.

- Materialistic

- A "human potential" movement. Striving for longer life and a better education. Science And Technology Are Necessary: We who walk this dark path along with the same interests will pursue the elimination of Human limitation to the maximum

- Of the left hand path

- Opposition of religions, especially those that hold a belief in an afterlife. Satanism is an un-religion. Satanism adopts the adversaries of major religions as its standard bearers

Also:
- Only the self is sacred. Nothing is holy except clarity of thought

- Satanists do not pray

- Meditation is considered a valid path of self discovery

- Stupidity is the cardinal "sin" of Satanism, the sin which is believed to cause all other Human evil

If you're interested, you can read the rest here:
http://www.dpjs.co.uk/modern.html

Official Satanism website:
http://www.churchofsatan.com

Answer 2

I've always thought that Satanism was created as an "Anti-Christianity." As a way to rebel against mainstream culture and scare people (use of pentacles and 666, both tabo sybmols in Christianity, yet not at all connected before). I think since then it's been reformed or divided. I once saw this "Satanist" woman on the news being interviewed on her religion, and she said it was about "enjoying life because there's nothing after death."

Answer 3

True satanism is about self-love and devotion, not worshipping the devil-- Anton LeVay is a good read.

He's really the one who came up with it; but in truth, satanism is about being selfish and unrepentanant(sp.) and such and you really shouldn't want to live your life that way.

You don't have to be a Chriatian to want to do good or be pleasant.

Answer 4

Que the Evangelical Christians.....

Answer 5

God gives christians the power to tell the devil to go away. Evil is not around every corner. God is everywhere, not the devil. You don't need to go seeking and researching evil, it will find you. Do not get an unhealthy obsession with the devil. Go and learn about the lord.

Answer 6

"Our Father . . . deliver us from evil!" - Jesus

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about demons. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
C.S. Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters

Confronting the Devil's Power
Pope Paul VI
General Audience
November 15, 1972
http://www.saint-mike.org/papal-library/paulVI/general_audience/November_15_1972.html

Answer 7

Why would you want to serve a master that lies, deceives, cheats, steals, kills, hates love and mankind itself?

God defeated satan. Why serve a loser?

Revelations 20:9 &10
But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Love sounds like a much better option than satanism.

Romans 12:9-21
Love
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.14Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[c] Do not be conceited. 17Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[d]says the Lord. 20On the contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."[e] 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Answer 8

You will get all of your answers here and with the other links the Church of Satan website contains in it.
Hail! and good luck on your path.

http://www.churchofsatan.com/

Answer 9

satanism theory forwarded by george w bush

Answer 10

They just a group of people that opossite the Christian..