- “C’mon – you can’t be suggesting that Satan is good?”
A typical misconception of Satanism is that Satanists actually sacrifice to and worship the divine antithesis of a Judeo-christian god. Whereas within the official church they don’t sacrifice at all and only use the image of antithesis as a figurehead. In particular, at least within the official codex of the church, the idea of the fall of rebel angels is bunk, along with hell and afterlife. In many senses, they’re atheistic, not deists.
- “Satan himself is the embodiment of evil – you can’t argue that”
The embodiment of evil to me is Hitler, whom used great charisma to gain political sway and convince hundreds of thousands that their blood-enemies were those of conflicting political ideals, or of differing race, or religious persuasion. He was protestant and he thought he was a good guy.
‘Embodiment’ suggests that Satan might have a body, or is somehow real, when the medieval church has only regurgitated images of Greek, Roman and various barbarous paganisms in order to formulate a prince of darkness. Prior to the fall of Rome, and the subsequent adoption of feudalism in it’s wake, ‘Satan’ didn’t exist.
