According to an answer I recieved, Athiests would worship Satan over God if they were forced to, is this true?

Question

Other than that one answer, everbody else pretty much bounced around the question and gave defensive comments. Looks somebody had the courage to be honest. That's a big step towards the path of righteousness!

Answer 1

We don't believe in you fantasy creatures.

Answer 2

I am not an athiest, I am agnostic. While I don't think the existance of god can be proven one way or the other, the existance of satan is logically imcompatible with the existance of god as put forward by the judeo-christian world view. God, concieved of as infinitly powerful, can have no meaningful adversary. God is as far beyond Satan in power as he is beyound an eggplant. Thus if "satan" were to exist he would only be doing so with Gods approval. Assumeing that all is according to God's plan, Satan is just doing the work God intended for him.
Belief in Satan as any sort of meaningful opponant to god makes no sense.
However for an athiest, while the idea of an infinite god may not be logiaclly acceptable, the idea of a ill-willed, powerful but limited being may be possible.
To an atheist the existance of god may be logically impossible but the existance of a devil may not be so.
Logically, then, it is more probable that an atheist would worship the devil who might possibly exist than God, who they believe can not.
To a logical theist, since the existance of God precludes the existance of a devil in any meaningful way, they shouldn't worry if an atheist wants to whorship something that can't exist.

Answer 3

Satan is an invention of Christians, therefore they would have to believe in Christianity to be able to worship Satan (they can't worship something if it doesn't exist). In which case they wouldn't be Atheists.
That's only one way in which your question is flawed.

I'm not an Atheist. However some religions definition of God, is a hell of a lot more scary and a lot more like what some people would describe as 'evil' than the Christians depiction of Satan.

Answer 4

Yo Momma

I would never worship something I was forced to worship. Not the False gods of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Nor would I worship Satan. I would however be willing to go to a black mass to see what it was like if I were permitted.

I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!

Answer 5

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 6

1) If you were forced to worship either Hades, lord of war and violence, or Apollo, lord of healing and beauty, which would you?

And, considering you don't believe in either, just how significant is your answer?

2) You, and the person you were talking with, are not communicating properly. Unless he is a sadist or a troll (both of which are possibilities) it is not that your atheist answerer worships evil over good - it is that when they read the Christian account of history, they think we are misled and that Satan is actually the one that more represents good. Get that through your head.

~ Lib

Answer 7

No, that is not true. An atheist is a person who believes that there is no proof for the existence of God. A reasonable person will always choose truth over falsehood. Most atheists would consider themselves to be reasonable people. Therefore, if theism could be proven most atheists would choose it. The problem is not with atheists; the problem is with the question.

Answer 8

That's the wackiest thing I've heard in a while.

By definition an atheist does not believe in any divinity - the Jewish/Christian/Islamic God, Pagan Gods, Satan, The Great and Mighty Purple Banana... nothing. Just nothing.

There is no choice, because there is nothing to choose between.

-dh

Answer 9

Worship Satan over WHICH god? Is this question even Christian-like? I can never tell anymore.

Answer 10

What they told you is that both of your gods are fakes so if they had to give a "right" answer to somebody ready to kill them they would choose the pragmatic point of favoring living. In other words the details and your previous question were baloney. And you posting it like you have this time is both dishonest and manipulative. If you believe in your god the law he gives about giving false witness would condemn you to death.

Answer 11

I can't speak for Atheists, but in my humble opinion I would gamble to say if (somehow) an atheist was forced to worship, they would worship God over Satan. But like I said, thats just my opinion, and I cannot speak for all atheists (and I'm sure some would pick Satan over God, and visa versa), but if I had to generalize, I would say most would pick God if they had to