One of the
ironies of life is that the average Christian assumes that non-belief in the
Christian god is somehow equivalent to belief in some other supernatural deity. If you listen to the Sunday morning t.v.
evangelists, they all claim that the growth of secularism in America has
somehow led people to a belief and acceptance of Satanism, devil-worship, and
serial murder, much the same way that rock-n-roll has led to the popularity of
tattoos and body peircing.
The logic of this seems strangely
contorted. If a person does not believe
in the Christian god, why would he believe in Satan? I do not believe in the efficacy of prayer,
whether the prayer is addressed to Jehovah, Satan, or JuJu. A person who does not believe in the
supernatural is not likely to engage in a Black Mass, sacrifice a goat, or
stick pins in a doll. This kind of
behavior is pretty much limited to believers in the supernatural.
Obviously, Satanism is a form of
Christianity, much as Voodoo is a form of Catholicism. Both Satanism and Voodoo are obviously
offshoots of, and their rites based on Christian rituals.
According to his autobiography, Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the
American Church of Satan, learned his trade while traveling with evangelical
Christian tent revivals. Similarly,
Voodoo came into existence as a mixture of African religions and Catholicism among the African slaves in New Orleans.
Clearly, therefore, a non-believer
cannot be a Satanist, nor would he encourage others to become followers of
Satan. The idea is absurd. But as a Free-Thinker, if Satan were to appear
before me--His Infernal Self smoking a Cuban stogie, smelling of sulphur &
brimstone, and shooting flames out of His ass--I would have to reconsider. But until then I choose not to believe in any
of the Gods or their fiendish underlings.
These ideas are only accepted by the gullible.
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