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Satanists unveil statue for the Oklahoma state capitol

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holy crap I just wiki'd the Church of Satan

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
  2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
  3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
  4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
  5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
  6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
  7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
  9. Do not harm little children.
  10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
  11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.


I..I think im a convert

Satan pls embrace me <3

Lair? lol lol lol. How dweeby. Just say home, bros.
 
holy crap I just wiki'd the Church of Satan

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
  2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
  3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
  4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
  5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
  6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
  7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
  9. Do not harm little children.
  10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
  11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.


I..I think im a convert

Satan pls embrace me <3

Odd that most sects of Satanism expressly require atheism/complete dismissal of the supernatural, yet number 7 seems like the copout "well just in case supernatural entities/powers DO exist, go ahead and have fun with that anyway."
 

Mariolee

Member
The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  2. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.

I guess this is what gives them their classic Satanist touch.
 
holy crap I just wiki'd the Church of Satan

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
  2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
  3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
  4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
  5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
  6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
  7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
  9. Do not harm little children.
  10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
  11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.


I..I think im a convert

Satan pls embrace me <3

If Satan is the opposite of God and Heaven the opposite of Hell, shouldn't these rules be the opposite of the 10 Commandments? And number 11 being something dickish like, start back at 1?
 

Tesseract

Banned
hahahahaha

yes!

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Acorn

Member
Odd that most sects of Satanism expressly require atheism/complete dismissal of the supernatural, yet number 7 seems like the copout "well just in case supernatural entities/powers DO exist, go ahead and have fun with that anyway."
Atheist Satanists? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? To be a Satanist is to be part of a religion.
 

Quackula

Member
Atheist Satanists? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? To be a Satanist is to be part of a religion.

Atheism is a rejection of the idea that there is a god or gods. Nothing else. You can technically be an atheist and still believe in other supernatural phenomena.
 

Acorn

Member
Atheism is a rejection of the idea that there is a god or gods. Nothing else. You can technically be an atheist and still believe in other supernatural phenomena.
The devil exists in all abrahmic religions. Without them the devil does not exist and to believe in the devil is to believe in God, their stories are intertwined not seperate.

Edit Oh seen your next post, never knew that.
 

mantidor

Member
Atheism is a rejection of the idea that there is a god or gods. Nothing else. You can technically be an atheist and still believe in other supernatural phenomena.

Atheism is no rejection of anything, is simply not believing in any god and being certain about it.

Modern satanists after LaVey are indeed more about rejection and other nonsense though.
 

CrazyDude

Member
holy crap I just wiki'd the Church of Satan

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
  2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
  3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
  4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
  5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
  6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
  7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
  9. Do not harm little children.
  10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
  11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.


I..I think im a convert

Satan pls embrace me <3

It's ok to harm children as long as they are not little?
 

Quackula

Member
Atheism is no rejection of anything, is simply not believing in any god and being certain about it.

Modern satanists after LaVey are indeed more about rejection and other nonsense though.

I think you misunderstand what I meant by "reject". Not believing in a god is the same thing as rejecting the claim "god certainly exists."

"Certainty" doesn't even have to really enter into it either. Rejecting a claim doesn't necessarily mean you accept the opposite claim.
 
Atheism is no rejection of anything, is simply not believing in any god and being certain about it.

In order to be certain about something you have to reject opposing theories. Here's where you messed up:

Gnostic athiesm is believing that there is no god with certainty.

Agnostic athiesm is simply the absense of belief in a god. No certainty.
 

Acorn

Member
I quickly read up on LaVey. It's about materialism and Rand... they should find a lot of happy ground with conservatives.
 

yojim

Banned
holy crap I just wiki'd the Church of Satan

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
  2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
  3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
  4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
  5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
  6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
  7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  8. Do not
    complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
  9. Do not
    harm little children.
  10. Do not
    kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
  11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.


I..I think im a convert

Satan pls embrace me <3

being a drone? no thanks
 

Acorn

Member
Nope, but that's what the christian church want you to think.

We've already talked about What It Is on the first and second page.
They kinda invite those sort of inaccurate representations by naming themselves after the very definition of evil by most people religious or not.
 

waypoetic

Banned
Ah I see it now

It sounds like a very intriguing belief system, but I want to know more about the magic rituals side

Worth knowing: the church of satan isn't a church, it isn't a building, so it's more of a philosophy/ a way of life. So those rituals, well, start decorating your bedroom! :)
 

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
holy crap I just wiki'd the Church of Satan

The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth
  1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
  2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
  3. When in another's lair, show them respect or else do not go there.
  4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat them cruelly and without mercy.
  5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
  6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and they cry out to be relieved.
  7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
  8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
  9. Do not harm little children.
  10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
  11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them.


I..I think im a convert

Satan pls embrace me <3

...this basically amounts to "don't be a jerk". I mean, that's nice and all, but I'm not really seeing what necessitates most of these being "rules"
 
...this basically amounts to "don't be a jerk". I mean, that's nice and all, but I'm not really seeing what necessitates most of these being "rules"

Well it's their version of the ten commandments isn't it? Which is pretty much also "don't be a jerk " but with an added : "also I am the only God and stop thinking about other Gods pls".

Personally I am just happy we got Satanism and Christianity to tell us how not to be jerks, otherwise I would probably be around stabbing whoever I felt like.
 

waypoetic

Banned
Atheism is a rejection of the idea that there is a god or gods. Nothing else. You can technically be an atheist and still believe in other supernatural phenomena.
I don't reject any of the thousands of gods that man has made up. How do you "reject" something that isn't real? It's the religious people that reject reality. Atheists are non-believers, free thinkers - not chained, scared sheep.
 
looking at the rules i guess i've been a member for ages and didn't even knew about it.

i'll take Frostbitten Moon Goat Kvlt as my satanic name.
 
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