RE: "Hail Satan?" (2019)
May 15, 2019 at 12:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2019 at 12:37 am by Belacqua.)
(May 14, 2019 at 10:21 pm)Amarok Wrote: Actually Satan isn't the Hebrew devil and they view Satan as more of an idealist symbol then a actual being .
Right. I'm aware that Satan has various meanings, in the history of Judaism and Christianity. That's why I said he's a "character" from that tradition.
What do you mean by "idealist symbol"? Does this give modern Satanists some reason to use him as a rallying point?
(May 14, 2019 at 10:32 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Belaqua's argument seems to contrast some older European Satanists with American Satanists, and according to him, the former is more substantive.
Yeah, that's a fair statement.
I'm still looking to figure out why modern American Satanists are interested in Satan, as opposed to some other literary symbol of rebellion. Prometheus or Lord Byron or somebody from Game of Thrones or Star Wars.
Either Satan as they use him is tied to history, in which case he's a religious figure, or he isn't. And if he isn't, then he isn't what he used to be. He's something new.