2006-10-26 01:51:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Satanism...
2006-10-26 01:52:17 · update #1
It has been legal for a long time. Freedom of religion and all that. They can pray to whomever they wish as long as they are not stealing children off the streets for human sacrifice or harming animals...you know how PETA is.
2006-10-26 02:01:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satanism is not what you think it means. The satanist, in the strict sense of the religion, does not "folow satan" but merely rejects the ideas involved in listening to the interpreted ideas of a guy on a cross. Central is the idea inherited from Nietzsche that an individual must enforce his own meaning on life and rise above the perceived conformity of the masses.
"Satan is a symbol, nothing more. Satan signifies our love of the worldly and our rejection of the pallid, ineffectual image of Christ on the cross."
During Inquisitions, the term was applicable to anyone accused of witchcraft, though historical investigation reveals no evidence that any group of actual devil worshippers or witches such as described by inquisitors ever existed.
2006-10-26 09:47:26 · answer #2 · answered by DoctorScurvy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it was never illegal, except for certain rites or practices that violated general law...
you know like sacrificing virgins and that kind of thing...
incidentally... i wonder if a full blown exorcism is completely legal?
2006-10-26 08:57:44 · answer #3 · answered by wolschou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is legal its considered a religion, you just can't do anything illegal while practicing
2006-10-26 09:13:48 · answer #4 · answered by mhireangel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was never illegal in the US
2006-10-26 08:55:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was it ever illegal?
2006-10-26 08:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by Judy the Wench 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋