From: (Anonymous)	Date: February 18th, 2004 03:54 am (UTC)		(Link)
Errant language

Anti-humanitarian? I think you mean "misanthropist." Anyway, aside from a few minor errors in that vein, great article.

	From: kempa	Date: February 24th, 2004 06:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I disagree. If one defines "Evil" as that which is not good for humanity, then the Bible, does in fact condone evil. And Satan conversly represents "Good". The Bible must diferentiate good for God and good for humanity. These two things are contradictory.

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is ABOMINATION in the sight of God. Luke 16:15

Man holds in esteem "good" acts. These acts must therefore be Abomintation to the Christian God.

But he [Jesus] turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, SATAN: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of MEN. Matthew 16:23

Since man feels guilt when he does evil, and pride when he does good, and Satan savours the "good" (since man esteems "good") feelings and acts, then Satan is more of a symbol of good than a God who considers these acts an abomintation. God is, to me, presented as a single-minded "evil" towards man. Man, being set in oppostion to God, originaly existed in fear of him, but somewhere in the prostheltizing of hif "followers" became a figure of "good". I feel that this does, however, raise the question of the Ten Commandments, which, to the normal observer would seem to be "good". I think that this is probably the divide between Christianity (evil) and Judiasm (misguided - It does not seem to demoralize and beat down "Man" the same way).

It seems to me that the Christian God (backed by the Bible's texts) is far more of an "Oposer" than Satan, who currently holds that title. The Bible is, invariably, full of contradictions, but, one thing it has continually held true to one idea. That Satan is not nesecarily the church's best friend, but he is Man's. It was Satan who gave man his inteligence and reason (in the Garden of Eden). It is Satan who "[savourest] those [things] that be of MEN". And it is Satan who gives a home to those souls that God deams "unworthy". In any case. Given the Christian mythos, I am far prouder to call myself a Satanist, than anyone could be who blindly followed the masoginist "Christ".

	From: kempa	Date: February 24th, 2004 06:27 pm (UTC)		(Link)

By all of this, I mean only that God does not creat a "crossover" of Good and Evil. That they (the concepts of "good for God", and "good for Man") are very distinct and very opposite.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: June 11th, 2006 09:07 am (UTC)		(Link)
Living amongst believers

Isn't the internet nice? Within seconds of coming to the firm conclusion that any "God" must be "Evil" I find websites with pages and pages of what I have thought. I have been sketchily planning to move into an area of "christian" majority. I fear such people. Am I crazy? No. I fear people who do not have the ability to think clearly and to feel empathy. Sociopaths and Christians are frightening.