What do you think of satanism?

[Loser]

Satanism is as ridiculous as other religions.

[Breakfloor]

Explain how?

[FlyingJesus]

I suggest reading John Stuart Mill's book "On Liberty" if you're interested in this sort of viewpoint, he's an actual philosopher so it's better worded, and he states exactly how he thinks government should be run in order to allow as much personal freedom as possible (he strongly believed in individual liberty being more important than society as a whole). It's not a massive volume of **** like a lot of philosophy books either lol so it's fairly easy to digest

[Loser]

Explain how?

Religion in general defies belief as it was created originally to describe things people couldn't understand. Nowadays, we have science to provide assistance in how things came to be. I find all religions to be absurd, whether it be the belief that aliens put us here, or the belief that a higher being put us here (eg. God) - it just doesn't make sense.
I don't know how the world was created, but I will not dedicate my life to finding out, nor will I dedicate my life to worshipping whatever caused it, be it a God or something else.
The fact is, we do not know how it was created, but a large proportion of the human race finds comfort in that a God created it, and this God is always watching over us.

[FlyingJesus]

Then you haven't been reading this thread lol, LaVey Satanism doesn't have any gods.

[Breakfloor]

+rep for that comment.

read threads before you post in them instead of replying to the thread name.

[Loser]

Then you haven't been reading this thread lol, LaVey Satanism doesn't have any gods.

I haven't been reading the thread, I only joined the forum about 5 minutes before that post. And for your information, there is two forms of Satanism which believe in a God.

Theistic Satanism

Theistic Satanism, also called Spiritual Satanism, contains several groups. Some groups consider themselves to be the true Satanists while other groups see reality as subjective and view issues such as "true & false" as the folly of zealots.

Reverse Christians

One group that falls under the definition of Theistic Satanism are called "reverse Christians"; this is sometimes used as a disparaging term by other theistic Satanists, and embraced to a lesser or greater extent by the groups given this label. Groups called "Reverse Christian" are said to practice what Christians claim Satanists do, and worship what Christians consider to be the enemy of Christ and God, basing their concept of Satan somewhat on descriptions of him in the bible. Some other groups of theistic Satanists do not accept the bible as depicting the true Satan to the same degree, basing their concept of him on personal spiritual experience and prayer.

Luciferianism

Recently developed is an offshoot of Satanism that keeps most of the tenets of Satanism, yet has more leniency to what is commonly referred to as a 'good' morality. Their view of Satan may incorporate some concepts from contemporary western religion, such as their sense of him as a father. One of these groups considers themselves to be 'Christian Satanists,' rejects the ideas of magic and rituals, and define themselves as being in the middle of LaVeyan Satanism and Christian teachings. This stance has led to their rejection from the Church of Satan.[5]

From Wikipedia.

It doesn't matter because LaVeyan Satanism is a non-religion. It's "Nine Satanic Statements" are laughable. It's literally the kind of rules I would make up in Primary school.