I am sometimes too subtle.
I sometimes reference inside jokes from meatspace that my readers have never seen.
So I will ruin the joke by explaining it.
Christianity has committed more evil than Satanism.
That's because Satanism has done nothing.
That's the joke, cue Rainier Wolfcastle meme.
There's a lot of evil attributed to Satan, but it's never actually a Satanist. I do not deny it was evil, I only contest that it was Satanism.
The flip side is that Christianity has done a lot of good.
Sometimes inadvertently, but still on the good side of the ledger.
But there's a lot of Christians out there doing evil who're going to be shocked to find themselves in Hell come The Day if it pans out their imaginary friend isn't imaginary.
There's piles of examples of nominally Christian people using scripture to justify their misdeeds.
Satanism?
Satanists?
Not so much.
The few prominent Satanists really don't push the religion bit that much and go about their lives. And go about their lives not doing evil... One's a painter of nudie girls and takes pictures of nekkid wimmins that would be at home at Irish's.
So, in the future, don't get too wrapped around the axle when I make a sweeping hyperbole like that.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that Satanism is a Christian sect. Or, more accurately a Jewish sect, along with Christianity and Islam. Funny how that works out.
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I have read a post by a Satanist once who said that his identifying as a Satanist was mostly to start a discussion about how he disagreed with the idea of any deity of any kind. I don't remember the exact wording of the post, but the way he said it, it sounded reasonable, for what he believed.
ReplyDeleteI'll hang out with avowed satanists over avowed Christians, because at least I'll have more fun. -JKing
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