(February 19, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 18, 2015 at 6:55 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The satanist example is used because it is the most "feared" in the community. Most of these "satanist" organizations are atheists using that term in order to prove exactly that point. So when the Gideons hand out Bibles at school, the "satanists" prove the point to the community by handing out coloring books with satanic themes. The result is usually what the "satanists" wanted in the first place---no one gets to hand anything out.
In other words they are just trolling...
If that's how you'd like to define it. They are going to an extreme to show people what the logical conclusion of their actions are. If you are wanting to hand out religious texts to children at a public school, then so can I.
The difference between trolling and what the Church of Satan does is that they have an end goal which is to get the community to take action and feel like they have won. It makes for lasting change, and in reality everyone wins.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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