RE: "Hail Satan?" (2019)
March 6, 2019 at 6:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2019 at 6:54 am by EgoDeath.)
(March 6, 2019 at 12:39 am)fredd bear Wrote:(March 5, 2019 at 8:31 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: This short bit of your post shows that you know absolutely NOTHING about the Satanic philosophy and that your thoughts (as well as Belaqua's thoughts) on this subject should not be taken seriously."
Perhaps wrong of me, but I've never been able to take Anton LaVey any more seriously than I take Aleister Crowley or Gerald Gardner.
These concocted beliefs are deeply enmeshed with the Christian tradition with its tendency to conflate Pan with Satan.
He lost me when he claimed an ideological link with Ayn Rand. Also love to see his explanation of his clim to have been influenced by
Nietzsche
You don't have to "take him seriously" or agree with his ideas. But certain statements that people make show me how little they actually know about the subject. Which is fine; if you want to make ignorant statements, or make statements out of ignorance, about a movement you know nothing about, more power to you. I certainly disagree with LaVey on plenty of things. But if you're going to claim you don't take him seriously, I have to ask why? What do you know about Satanism or the origins of the Church of Satan?
What do you know about what LaVey thinks about Rand or Nietzsche?
I find that people see the showmanship and theatrics surrounding Satanism and immediately write it off as some gimmick. But it isn't. It's a legitimately cohesive life philosophy that a few people I know personally follow and they're all very successful, intelligent individuals. Granted, that is totally anecdotal and doesn't necessarily say anything about Satanism itself. I'm sure there are plenty of wanna-be goths and emo kids who get into Satanism to look edgy and cool, but I'd bet my bottom dollar LaVey, if he were alive today, would scoff at those people, and rightly so.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.