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Re: Is this a good way to make money?
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Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:20:48 GMT
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in article qrd4rnfmcjd.fsf@eos.uio.no, Fredrik Glöckner at
fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no wrote on 11/28/01 4:10 AM:
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> The satanism concept is, BTW, hugely misunderstood. In it's original
> form, it has nothing to do with worshipping the devil. The satanism
> concept was originally thought of as the "opposite" of christianity.
> Satanists did not believe there was a god and and afterlife. Hence,
> as this life was the only one available, one should try to get as much
> happiness and pleasure from it as possible. Satanism is thus a purely
> egoistic ideology.
IF that's the way it came about (and I am in no way certain it is accurate),
I would have said they could have done a better job choosing a name for it.
If Christianity is the worship of Christ, it is not illogical to assume that
Satanism would be worship of (or at the very least, devotion to) Satan.
Rob
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| (...) I don't know the historical reason for the name satanism. The main point of the ideology was to be an alternative to christianity. While in christianity you should compromise in this life, awaiting a better afterlife, satanists took the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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