[ExI] Religions are not the ultimate cause of war

[Stefano Vaj]

On 1 October 2012 17:27, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVeyan_Satanism
>
> "Satanists do not believe in the supernatural, in neither God nor the
> Devil. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man
> living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. The reality behind
> Satan is simply the dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates
> all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation
> inherent in all living things. Satan is not a conscious entity to be
> worshipped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped
> at will. Thus any concept of sacrifice is rejected as a Christian
> aberration—in Satanism there’s no deity to which one can sacrifice."
>

That's quite heretic, I suspect, from a traditional Satanist (ie, Satan's
worship along the line of judaeo-crhistian mythology) POV.

Too bad in their mimicking catholic stuff they do not have an
excommunication procedure. :-)

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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