From: (Anonymous)	Date: October 23rd, 2002 06:14 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Dogma

The dogma of all religion is "thou shalt not question!" If you question religion, you are immoral and corrupt for doubting it. Take Socrates, or Galileo.
I myself am of no religion. I find a great irony in calling yourselves "satanists" on the Christian part. You generate the exact response you want in them. It's beautiful, in a way.

	From: lorah	Date: November 2nd, 2002 03:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I still don't understand why some people believe some things as opposed to others. To me, over all I've read and seen, Chrisitanity has been the only thing that made sense to me. As for those who have called themselves Christians and did things apposing what the Bible said, they tainted the name for the true at heart. You say that believers provide power or something. "A god is only as powerful as it's followers, and every atheist denies every god that little bit of power.". This statement is so untrue that I am not sure where or how anyone could come up with this notion. Maybe you think the Bible is just a fun little story book of myths, but I know it to be a truth. Its not something that can be told, rather, it must be experience. God will have the greatest power, whether or not he has one follower, a trillion followers, or no followers. In the Bible, God will defeat Luciefer no matter what. This is what makes sense to me.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: December 11th, 2002 05:56 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I was up all night reading essays from your various sights and then I woke up this morning and read some more. I have to say that I really enjoyed all the work and thought that you have put into them. I am not a goth or a Satanist. I am more of a mundane agnostic, but I can really appreciate your lifestyle. It's pretty neat to see that there is a whole group of people who feel the way I do.. However I didn't expect to see that they called themselves Satanists and associate themselves with the various symbols. Your sight has helped to dispell a lot of the myths I believed about modern day satanism. I do see though that it is an open rebellion towards religions especially christianity. It has to be or why would you take on the symbols of their mythical God's mythical nemisis. At first I was ready to criticize Satanism for this, but I find myself being sort of empathetic towards this rebellion as religion has been such a means of control and manipulation over people for so many years. Even Nazis called themselves Christians. Satanism seems to have a respect for life. I was raised to believe in the Catholic faith, but I just cannot accept it. To comment on some of your articles on the soul, I have questioned that for many years too. It wasn't as complex of an issue with me. Just some observations I made on changes that the brain goes though like with really intelligent people who have accidents and get brain damage. It just didn't seem like that could happen if we really all had a soul. Kind of made me realize that we really are mostly chemical and physical beings. Anyway thank you very much for all the work you invested into these sights.