FEEL THE BERN! It's caliente: Did Bernie Sanders lock up the Satanist vote? | Tea Party News Hijos! It's time to pass around the tin foil hats. All kidding aside, the only Satanist I know is voting for Trump.
Most Satanists are agnostic or atheist. The philosophy of the Church of Satan is incompatible with socialism. It would make more sense for a Satanist to be a Libertarian. They are very big on individualism and self-preservation.
Yeah. He is a very nice guy. His religion or lack thereof is of no concern to me. He is an atheist Libretarian Satanist. No human or animal blood rituals like you see in the movies. Just a regular guy.
One of my coworkers is a hardcore Christian. He has religious books in his office that he lends out to the inmates. I saw that he was sporting a few Bernie Sanders pins and thought of this thread.
I would love to read this person's world view! I think on both sides, as usually people endorse whomever they want to. The candidates cannot be expected to reject, denounce, refuse, condemn, criticize, censure, decry, vilify, discredit, malign, or rail against every Tom, Dick and Harry. I will even take it a step further, I can overlook public acceptance of such endorsement, prior the candidate being informed of such endorsement misalignment. Of course, thereafter endorsement acceptance should be withdrawn.
I'm just enough of a Philosopher to wonder if it isn't a contradiction to be a Satanist and an Atheist.
They don't call themselves Satanists because they believe in Satan. It's a way to show how they've rejected the popular worldview of how humans should conduct themselves.
OK, so I did not know any of that and so I sprinted through a web search and found this . . . "Welcome to the official website of the Church of Satan. Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above-ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man’s true nature—that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence. To us, Satan is the symbol that best suits the nature of we who are carnal by birth—people who feel no battles raging between our thoughts and feelings, we who do not embrace the concept of a soul imprisoned in a body. He represents pride, liberty, and individualism—qualities often defined as Evil by those who worship external deities, who feel there is a war between their minds and emotions. As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling. Worshipping any God is thus worshipping by proxy those who invented that God. Since the Satanist understands that all Gods are fiction, instead of bending a knee in worship to—or seeking friendship or unity with—such mythical entities, he places himself at the center of his own subjective universe as his own highest value. We Satanists are thus our own “Gods,” and as beneficent “deities” we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm. Magus Gilmore’s essay “What, The Devil?” from The Satanic Scriptures discusses this in greater detail." I do not know if this is generally representative of Satanism (I assume there are various sorts) but this seems to be much as you said. Thanks for the enlightenment on this subject.
