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[Evad]

So satanists are basically hedonists, as I purposed earlier. Why rename an already thought out philosophy? More so, why rename your religion diametrically to Christianity. I can't get around the fact that they named themselves Satanists. If they are in fact atheists, which some are I'm sure, then this just means they were taking a pick shot at Christianity. And forgive me for being blunt, but that's lame. Get a life. So they are saying," we know these guys think we are evil and that we are going to hell, so what? We don't care".Well All you Satanists out there, If they don't care then distance yourselves from Christians in all respects. I think that using the name Satanist is practicing a term that levay actually coined. "Emotional vampirism".

I don't believe that all Satanists are atheists. I read some of the web site they have last night, and LeVay talks about calling forth demons and opening yourself to powerful influences. He most definitely personifies these influences, and referrs to them as "them" or "they". Sure you could argue that he is useing imagry like christianity, but on the site it says he didn't write cryptically,, and that anyone could read the "bible" and not have to sort it out. He says to look within, this smacks of demon posession to me. You might look at it different, but I don't like the idea of opening yourself to dark influences, internal or otherwise. Many people have brought up the fact that this "Religion" is open to differing views. Sure some probably are atheists, but by saying that they all don't believe in the devil is as unprovable as saying they do.
This is what I truely believe and I think that you Yobor should be careful. The easiest way to get someone to enter a door is to tell them that they don't have to. Ask yourself what LeVays motive was to create this Religion. Religions have spiritual aims. If it wasn't spiritual it would be classified in a totally different catagory then religion.
@ Plix, are you sure you're roman catholic? Iwould assume that most Catholics would say even though most Satanists don't believe that they worship satan that they are still doing his work...