Christian Rapport

[P3nT4gR4m]

I hate you cain! Just when I think I've plumbed the depths of religious stupidity you throw something like that at me 

[Luna]

I hate you cain! Just when I think I've plumbed the depths of religious stupidity you throw something like that at me 

There is no bottom to stupid, Pent.

[P3nT4gR4m]

STFU and leave me to my blissful denial!

[Cain]

They were a Scientology splinter group who believed "Satan will become reconciled to Christ, and they will come together at the end of the world to judge humanity, Christ to judge and Satan to execute judgment."

And that

At Xtul was the first 'channeling' of God. After Xtul, Jehovah was the only recognised God. Later, with Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan were recognised as "The Three Great Gods of the Universe" and Christ as the Emissary to the Gods. The Three Great Gods represent three basic human patterns of reality:

    Jehovah, the wrathful God of vengeance and retribution, demands discipline, courage and ruthlessness, and a single-minded dedication to duty, purity and self-denial.
    Lucifer, the Light Bearer, urges us to enjoy life to the full, to value success in human terms, to be gentle and kind and loving, and to live in peace and harmony with one another. Man's apparent inability to value success without descending into greed, jealousy and an exaggerated sense of his own importance, has brought the God Lucifer into disrepute. He has become mistakenly identified with Satan.
    Satan, the receiver of transcendent souls and corrupted bodies, instills in us two directly opposite qualities; at one end an urge to rise above all human and physical needs and appetites, to become all soul and no body, all spirit and no mind, and at the other end a desire to sink beneath all human codes of behavior, and to wallow in a morass of violence, lunacy and excessive physical indulgence. But it is the lower end of Satan's nature that men fear, which is why Satan, by whatever name, is seen as the Adversary.

They were associated with Charlie Manson and, reportedly, with the Son of Sam murders that Berkowitz claims he did not do.

[Adios]

 

Pent, your optimism is showing again.

[Luna]

STFU and leave me to my blissful denial!

Maybe this'll help...



All better!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Pent, your optimism is showing again.

I try like fuck to keep it in check but, evry now and again it gets the better of me.


I AM WEAK 

[Elder Iptuous]

They were a Scientology splinter group ....

ohhhh oh! that's fantastic!  the rest of the information is really great gravy, but that right thar is a beautiful phrase...
i have to go meditate on it for a while

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm liking the Lucifer = Venus connection, because it means Satanists are really tree-hugging fertility goddess worshippers. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Satanists are christians. They worship a character in the same fairy story. Doesn't matter if your favourite is kirk or khan, you're still a trekkie, right?

[BabylonHoruv]

Satanists are christians. They worship a character in the same fairy story. Doesn't matter if your favourite is kirk or khan, you're still a trekkie, right?

This is arguable.  it's a position I tend to agree with, but it is only literally accurate for theistic Satanists.  Most Satanists are Church of Satan style Satanists who worship themselves and use Satan as a metaphor for that selfish part of themselves.  They don't actually believe in an external Satanic deity.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Satanists are christians. They worship a character in the same fairy story. Doesn't matter if your favourite is kirk or khan, you're still a trekkie, right?

This is arguable.  it's a position I tend to agree with, but it is only literally accurate for theistic Satanists.  Most Satanists are Church of Satan style Satanists who worship themselves and use Satan as a metaphor for that selfish part of themselves.  They don't actually believe in an external Satanic deity.

Yeah I get that. I'm of the opinion that they're a minority but that's based on the relatively few self professed satanists I've met. Maybe I hang out in the wrong social circles or something. Are there actually a lot of satanists about?

[LMNO]

Satanists are christians. They worship a character in the same fairy story. Doesn't matter if your favourite is kirk or khan, you're still a trekkie, right?

This is arguable.  it's a position I tend to agree with, but it is only literally accurate for theistic Satanists.  Most Satanists are Church of Satan style Satanists who worship themselves and use Satan as a metaphor for that selfish part of themselves.  They don't actually believe in an external Satanic deity.

To be honest, if all they're doing is using Satan as a metaphor, they really could have chosen a better mascot.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Satanists are christians. They worship a character in the same fairy story. Doesn't matter if your favourite is kirk or khan, you're still a trekkie, right?

This is arguable.  it's a position I tend to agree with, but it is only literally accurate for theistic Satanists.  Most Satanists are Church of Satan style Satanists who worship themselves and use Satan as a metaphor for that selfish part of themselves.  They don't actually believe in an external Satanic deity.

To be honest, if all they're doing is using Satan as a metaphor, they really could have chosen a better mascot.

 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Satanists are christians. They worship a character in the same fairy story. Doesn't matter if your favourite is kirk or khan, you're still a trekkie, right?

This is arguable.  it's a position I tend to agree with, but it is only literally accurate for theistic Satanists.  Most Satanists are Church of Satan style Satanists who worship themselves and use Satan as a metaphor for that selfish part of themselves.  They don't actually believe in an external Satanic deity.

To be honest, if all they're doing is using Satan as a metaphor, they really could have chosen a better mascot.

But they were going for shock value.