Satanism,
contrary to popular belief, doesn’t involve drinking goat blood from
iron goblets while praying oaths to the devil. Satanists don’t even
believe the devil exists. In Satanism, the devil merely “represents” an
idea that Satanists live by, which is basically “You are your own God,
do whatever you want”. This is what makes Satanism the antithesis of
Christianity, not virgin sacrifices or flaming pentagrams.
Satanism is actually the most basic way of human thinking; most
people I know (including Christians) adhere (albeit unknowingly) to
Satanic doctrine. According to Anton Lavey’s “Satanic Bible”, here are
a few of the “9 Satanic Statements”:
-Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!
-Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!
-Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!
-Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!
-Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
Where as Christianity is completely based on love for everyone,
including enemies and those who deserve love the least, Satanism is
based on giving love to those we deem worthy of love. Where as
Christianity is based on turning the other cheek and no retaliation
against those who harm us, Satanism is based on self-appointed ideas of
justice and vengeance. Where as Christianity is based on the notion of
faith and believing in what is unseen and spiritual, Satanism is based
on physical reality and tangible existence.
Sadly, this is the way most people (including Christians) operate.
People are naturally inclined to selfishness, which is the driving core
of Satanism, repaying kindness for kindness and evil for evil. We give
kindness, love and respect to those who give it to us, to those who
“deserve” it. After being violated in some way, our obligation to love
and respect a person becomes vanquished. According to the Bible, our
obligation to love those who violate, hurt, persecute and destroy us
not only remains, so does our obligation to humbly serve them, just as
Jesus did and does for those who violate, hurt, persecute and destroy
him.
Andrew Murray talked about how humility was the identifying
characteristic of Christ, and that all the humility you have within you
is straight from God. However much pride you retain however, is
completely of Satan. This is why Satanism is what it is. Satan
represents the absence of humility, putting oneself before all else
rather than putting EVERYONE else before oneself.
Philippians 2:3 says: Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain
conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
The conclusion is that Satanism isn’t what most people imagine it
to be, in fact, there are Satanic “principles” that discourage immoral
things like violence and “unwarranted” cruelty. But what it is still
embodies pure evil according to Christian theology.
The antithesis of Christianity often runs in conjunction with
traditional human pride, which is essentially of the devil himself.
This must be what Christ was talking about when he said we’d have to
“deny ourselves”. Anytime we ignore the road less traveled and look out
for our own interests first, retaliate, seek our own ideas of justice
and what is fair… we are following Satanic doctrine.
This was taken from Showbread's
website and I take no credit for it. I know a lot of people have a misunderstanding of Satanism so I thought I'd just throw this out there.
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