First
off, let's start with understand what Satanism is (because more often than not,
it's not worshiping the 'devil.')Posted on Friday, March 15,
2013 7:53 AM
Second,
they obviously do not believe Lucifer (if they worship the actual figure and
not a set of ideologies) to be such a bad guy.
I
personally would, if we assume the Bible is the literal truth (which I do not
believe, being an atheist) prefer Satan over God.
The
reasons for this are simple: In the Bible, God is supposed to be portrayed as
benevolent, all powerful, and all knowing. Yet he clearly set humanity up to
fail from the start by including the tree and allowing Satan into the garden to
tempt innocent people who had no concept of right and wrong. God's actions in
the bible far surpass all of the worst human dictators in history combined.
Mass genocide, condemning people to eternal torture for superficial reasons, an
egocentric maniac who demands that everything worship him forever, innocent
people killed or punished for little or no reason, and much more.
Whereas
in contrast, Lucifer was thrown out of heaven for arguing with God that he was
wrong to treat humanity as his playthings. He also tempted Adam and Eve so that
they might learn God's cruelty and actually think for themselves instead of be
his pets in a cage. All other accounts of Satan's misdeeds in the Bible are
from the obviously biased viewpoint of God, who had already shown himself to be
the penultimate malicious dictator of the universe.
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