Any former Satanists out there who are now Christians?

Question

What did it take to change you?

A Dane's...you're right, I was thinking that. Then who exactly does a satanist worship?

Answer 1

Beano, Satanists really do NOT believe in the devil, they are atheistic. They see all the Gods and Goddesses are nothing more than "aspects" of the Self. All is in the worshiper's mind. They use the name because it's a religion based in opposition to your faith and because they like the imagery.

Now, to answer your question. Actually I am a former Satanist, after I left Christianity for a few years I practiced Satanism. I left Satanism because it basically reaction to Christianity and I do not want anything to do with Middle Eastern religions period. Satanism suffers from two primary flaws: individuality taken to the extreme of anti-socialness, and its own over-inflated ego. Satanism is convinced that everyone should be completely independent; it ignores that we are social animals and live in a social environment (whether we want to or not). It is convinced that it and it alone is correct, and those who disagree with it are uneducated or foolish. It postures and prances and strokes itself, but when push comes to shove, most Satanists are no better off nor more understanding of life than they were without Satanism.

The myth of Satan have its origins in the doctrine called as Zoroastrianism that came long before Christianity. The doctrine’s creation is usually attributed to a man named Zoroaster (Zarathustra) who was a 6th century BCE Iranian religious reformer.

It was he who invented the theory that the entire universe is ruled by only two Gods; one representing the life giving creation forces and absolute goodness. The other God represented the destruction forces and absolute evil. According to Zoroaster’s teachings, when a human being is born, he is born with a purpose to serve (be slave of) one of these two divine beings. That choice is only up to the individual human and depending of that choice, that person will have a good fortune in the living word and a bad fortune in the word of dead beings and vice- versa, depending of which God that is chosen to follow.

When Christianity was being invented it borrowed that conception, absorbed it into its own mythos, and transformed the tribal God of the Jews into a universal God for everyone, and the evil God of destruction became the Christian Devil. The iconography of the Evil One was borrowed from many other religions and cultures of great diversity. For example, the horns comes from the Greek God called Pan. Pan was a God of fertility and a lover of one of the Greek Goddesses. The trident used by The Satan, was borrowed from The God Shiva.

Answer 2

Wow you gave me the best answer for the last...I'd hoped I'd not come on too strong, I was very tired that night...ty
Me, a former satanist?
NO!
But...I was very very heavy into the occult, my upbringing was in it, and I am glad to be free.
I believe, and this is radical...but I know my stuff...that satanism is actually not very powerful.
This is only theory, mind you, but I believe that Satan harasses those that are believers.
The antichrist, his job is to keep us from the revelation that Jesus is the christ....and I also think for 1,000 years he warred against the bible.
The next 1,000 against the churches...and well now he wars against each of us having the revelation that Jesus is the christ, RIGHT NOW present tense.
He's a fallen angel, one of many, all demons are fallen angels, therefore all occult is demonic, and seductive and alluring, and anything less then the true gospel is somewhat evil.
Even the churches that don't believe in gifts in the present day, are basically saying they believe this dude walked the earth 2,000 years ago....1st john says that he who confesses Jesus is the christ is born of God, he who confesses that jesus christ came in flesh, is OF god.
So those demoninations....that just preach that he was here long ago, and what to do to get to heaven, but offer nothing now...even those are somewhat of a deception...sigh

Answer 3

as adversarial to vote casting for Hilary Clinton, who held a seance interior the White abode attempting to call up the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt? Or the cocaine abuser Imam Obama. Or the perjurer Slick Willy Clinton. could desire to i bypass on?

Answer 4

My fiance. But I think you're thinking "satanists" are people that worship satan, and they aren't.

Answer 5

Haha...wait there's a difference?

Answer 6

Hell yea a lot of them. They get scared after awhile and scare themselves you know.