Epicureans, Atheists, and Satanist's?

Question

Do people really think these three are synonimous? these are three very seporate beleifs. Epicureans just don't beleive in an afterlife, or in devine jugment. where do people get the idea that they dedicate their lives to sin or fun? Atheists just don't beleive in a god. again people seem to think that they dedicate their lives to sin or fun. as for Satanists, they acually beleive in a powerful supernatural being and the afterlife, therfore they are not Atheists or Epicureans. Please feel free to add more info on their diferences. as for you who do beleive that they are synonimous, please do not insult me. thank you.

Satan IS a powerful and supernatural being. and why would people praise 'him' if there was no reward?

Answer 1

Well, if you're an athiest, that would be a life of ''sin", and a satanist isn't someone who believes in a powerful supernatural being and an afterlife(That would be like Christianity), satanists are people who worship *key word* worship satan.

Answer 2

I am willing to bet that most people don't even know what an Epicurean is. As for Atheists and Satanists, the reason they get lumped together is because both live in the absence of God. An Atheist doesn't believe in one, and Satanists are adversaries to God. people are simpletons so don't get to frustrated with them, just go about your day and be at peace with who you are.

Answer 3

You're basically right. Generally, they are all in the same vein. Although it doesn't apply to every single one of them, of course. But it is generally the case. I know that atheists and satanists often link to each other in their websites.

Satanists have the same fundamental view that atheists and epicureans have: that yourself is god (basically the same philosophy that Opera Winfrey espouses). They basically worship hedonism.

Many young people who call themselves satanists don't really believe in Satan (at least consciously). They simply love the mystical, spiritual and hedonistic nature of it.

Interestingly, like I've already implied, atheists generally don't have a problem with all these kinds of 'other' religions. The only religion they make a hobby and even career of attacking is Christianity. I suspect because of its focus on morality. And specifically the name of Jesus.

Like I have said, not all atheists are neccessarily epicureans/hedonists. But these ideologies generally transpose and overlap one another.

Also, isn't it interesting that this question has gotten only three answers after two days? I've noticed that people tend to avoid questions that call them out on something that they know deep down to be true but they do not like to admit it. They do not want such things to be said. Whenever questions like these get such low responses and are basically avoided, you just KNOW you are on to something.

And I think it also shows that atheists, epicureans and satanists are in no way at all a minority in the society, like many atheists love to claim.

Answer 4

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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm

Proper Marxists are not atheists either;

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Atheism, as the denial of this unreality, has no longer any meaning, for atheism is a negation of God, and postulates the existence of man through this negation; but socialism as socialism no longer stands in any need of such a mediation. It proceeds from the theoretically and practically sensuous consciousness of man and of nature as the essence. Socialism is man’s positive self-consciousness, no longer mediated through the abolition of religion, just as real life is man’s positive reality, no longer mediated through the abolition of private property, through communism.

Communism is the position as the negation of the negation, and is hence the actual phase necessary for the next stage of historical development in the process of human emancipation and rehabilitation. Communism is the necessary form and the dynamic principle of the immediate future, but communism as such is not the goal of human development, the form of human society. [34]'

Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844


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