Comments on: Is Santaria satanism? http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/is-santaria-satanism/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:12:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: 1minionsopinion http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/is-santaria-satanism/#comment-39 1minionsopinion Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:40:44 +0000 http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-39 Sorry I didn't release your comment earlier. It got caught by the spam sieve for some reason and I just got around to cleaning it out this morning. Thanks for the input on this. I've seen Satanism described in a similar way before. I think it's evident across the board that people don't want to take responsibility for what they do, and it doesn't matter what belief system drives them. Sorry I didn’t release your comment earlier. It got caught by the spam sieve for some reason and I just got around to cleaning it out this morning.

Thanks for the input on this. I’ve seen Satanism described in a similar way before.

I think it’s evident across the board that people don’t want to take responsibility for what they do, and it doesn’t matter what belief system drives them.

]]> By: MagistraY http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/is-santaria-satanism/#comment-34 MagistraY Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:39:19 +0000 http://1minionsopinion.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-34 Santeria has no relationship to Satanism. The only legitimate form of Satanism, as described in The Satanic Bible and as practiced by members of The Church of Satan, is an atheistic religion that recognizes the human need for ritual, dogma, and fellowship. Satan is merely a metaphor, an archetype to represent man's carnal nature, and, in the Miltonian sense, he who refuses to bow down before any god. That said, Satanists are forbidden from killing animals except for food. As there are no literal gods, devils, demons, angels, etc....there is no need for sacrifice of any kind, and Satanists are disgusted by the barbarism of Santerians who continue the practice of animal sacrifice. In this case, it sounds like sociopaths using a mish-mash of the sort of fear tactics they heard in Christian churches to justify their criminal behavior. The fact that the police are buying into this cult nonsense only proves that the noise from the pulpit is doing its job, and preventing the kind of personal responsibility for one's actions demanded by Satanism. Magistra Ygraine Church of Satan http://magistrayrainetwo.blogspot.com/ Santeria has no relationship to Satanism. The only legitimate form of Satanism, as described in The Satanic Bible and as practiced by members of The Church of Satan, is an atheistic religion that recognizes the human need for ritual, dogma, and fellowship. Satan is merely a metaphor, an archetype to represent man’s carnal nature, and, in the Miltonian sense, he who refuses to bow down before any god.

That said, Satanists are forbidden from killing animals except for food. As there are no literal gods, devils, demons, angels, etc….there is no need for sacrifice of any kind, and Satanists are disgusted by the barbarism of Santerians who continue the practice of animal sacrifice.

In this case, it sounds like sociopaths using a mish-mash of the sort of fear tactics they heard in Christian churches to justify their criminal behavior. The fact that the police are buying into this cult nonsense only proves that the noise from the pulpit is doing its job, and preventing the kind of personal responsibility for one’s actions demanded by Satanism.

Magistra Ygraine
Church of Satan
http://magistrayrainetwo.blogspot.com/

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