Atheism and Satanism

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There's a difference.

So you wouldn't let an Atheist hug you?

or kiss you?

Not just any atheist. It would have to be someone I'm emotionally close to. I wouldn't hug someone simply because they are an atheist, nor woud I hug someone simply because they're a Christian. Generally, I don't hug people I don't know.

Of course! The easiest way to lose an argument is to be convinced that you are infallible (the same is true in love and war).

Hmm... I usually win by being convinced that I am infallible. If you think that you cannot lose, and keep going forward no matter what, it can really unnerve your opponents.

Giving favor to people merely because they like you is part of the human condition, not part of God.

Matt. 5:43-48

If, to be like the Father, one must love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them, doesn't that mean that the Father also loves His enemies? Why then would Jesus, who taught us to love our enemies, turn any of His own enemies away from heaven? Jesus was very big on the "practice what you preach" thing, so I doubt it...

Why surely. Christians only practice what they preach when it serves their interest to do so. Anyone ever heard This before:

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ!" -Ghandi

It's too bad Gandhi never met Martin Luther King, given that they were from two different time periods. I think they would have gotten along so well. (Not to mention that King used Gandhi's writings to form his civil rights protest in the 1960s)

Well, actually True Satanism is just a form of Atheism..

BUT, IF you're an Atheist, that does NOT make you a Satanist.


plain and simple.

AFAIK, you have to believe, at least in Satan as a powerful being to worship him, to be a "True" Satanism, that seems to conflict with the definition of Atheism.

I think the term Modern Satanism would be most likely the case here.
http://modernsatanism.com/satanism.html

but thats what im saying is at least one church of Satan that i knew about wasn a worship of Satan.. it was a worship of PEOPLE, with Satan as nothing more than a symbol.. I tried looking for the video but i lost it.. but a satanist priest was the one saying this, so the main Satanist Church is a form of atheism.. just a more organised and well.. evil one.

Evil? Why do people always seem to form an idea of what's good and what's bad? If you are referring to Laveyan Satanism which is what the Church of Satan practices there's not much evil about at all, I think it's stupid and immature to perform rituals in a church, especially if you're deep down an Atheist but I don't see them killing people or forcing their beliefs down people's throats. Do you? When was the last time you saw a Satanist knock on your door and handing you a pamphlet?

Satanism is not evil. Satanism is a group of disgruntled adolescents trying to unnerve their parents. There have been murders linked to Satanism, but there have been murders linked to every religion.

I think we may be confusing what Satanism wants to be for what Satanism actually is. There is an oft-mentioned line between stupid and evil.

Wouldn't Satanism defeat the very principle of Atheism?

I mean, if they worship the devil...most Atheist's don't even believe there is a devil.

why do you think this, are you christian or religious?

hopefully i don't hear any religious person yell "BLASPHEMY!" at me lol, but as I have posted on other forums out religion, I believe the word "atheist" shouldn't really exist, why? because it is a label a religious person can use against you for not having a belief, it shouldn't exist because when i was born i did not choose to be an atheist, i was born into it, that doesn't mean i'm lost or evil, or that i need to choose a religion, I believe in nature & born into FREEDOM

Hopefully religious people aren't too stubborn and start to think WHY the most smartest people (recorded) on this planet (Einstein, Freud etc) are not religious?

religious people need to remember that you don't need to be religious to be a "good" person

also people have to understand their are variables in everything,
Understand that Atheism really is a person who wishes to really have nothing to do with religion, and that there is no definate true or known "Satanism" cult,
Im guessing real Satanism wouldve been created much like Anti-Freemasonry or such, where the religious/cultist person believed in a religion until they seen a devastating fault in it and chose to make an ANTI or opposing group

But there is tons of groups and orgs that have differences in beliefs and there probably is a group with mixed atheist AND Satanic views

also I believe much poorer countries are being slandered with the "satanism" label because they turned to cannibalism or sum weird sh*t, this is soo obvious this is being perpetuated from the INSIDE of religion to make it seem there really is a "Satan" or true evil to fear, thus justifying religion to go to war on these countries mentally and systematically