Religious morality. What's up with that?

[Archem]

Satanism is pretty much "You mess with my ****, you pay for my ****." Buddhism is tolerance, understanding, so on and such. Satanism is if I think you have done me wrong, I'll kill you.

It may not be what it's been made out to be, but it sure as hell isn't peaceful.

I meant in the "You can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't cause harm to others" way. Not necessarily peaceful.

Well, hey, it's even pretty peaceful. It's not so much aggressive as it is "eye for an eye". I'm all for that. It's also pretty much religion for the atheist, since it doesn't condone belief in a higher power or whatever.

Wow, it's a little scary that we're talking about Satanism in a more positive light.

[Moosetroop11]

Just like Christianity Buddihsm have many different branches.
We got cathoholics, protestants, jehovas, mormons, Word of life you name it.
Saying that all of them are alike is wrong. Same goes for Buddhism, there are different ways of practising pretty mich the same thing. I don't know all the specific details but I know that some parts insist that Buddha is indeed the son of God while others say that he isn't.

Really? I thought all buddhists were atheists...

[ZeroKirbyX]

Yeah, Buddhism is separated. While a lot of it isn't the belief in God, I believe that their is a belief in a god, or at least a higher power. They do not believe in the Catholic/Christian God though.

[Emerates]

My God has a bigger dick than your God.

-George Carlin


Anyways... If Christianity is based off of Judaism, yet the Jews are often persecuted by Christians, don't they still have the same God, or at least the same concept of God?  But then, Christians have damnation to worry about, don't they?  Hmm.

[Dragonium]

Anyways... If Christianity is based off of Judaism, yet the Jews are often persecuted by Christians, don't they still have the same God, or at least the same concept of God?  But then, Christians have damnation to worry about, don't they?  Hmm.

Also, biblically, Jesus was the "King of the Jews", but Judaism doesn't believe in Jesus. Mindfuck.

Satanism, as Zeek says, is basically an eye for an eye, which in my opinion is a very good principle. You do me a favour, I'll do you a favour. You hurt me, I'll hurt you. Ever heard that old "treat others as you would like to be treated" thing? Satanic practice, right there.

[Archem]

Yeah. The reason behind Christianity is that Jews refused to accept Jesus as their messiah, and the people that did decided to change a bunch of the "rules". Dunno why.

If I were to really pick a religion for myself, I'd pick Satanism just because it's got so much that I agree with. Besides, it's a great conversation starter, and I'm a huge fan of controversy.

[Razor]

That, and doesn't Satanism actually have very little do with Satan? IIRC the most there is is "you can worship me if you want" but even that might not be there.

[ZeroKirbyX]

If I remember from this nifty book I read, modern Satanism was dubbed as such just because it's against everything that religion stands for. Traditional Satanism however is the worship of Satan as a god.

[Archem]

The original publication of The Book of Satanism must be the earliest work of modern Satanism, then. I don't think I actually recall any work that asked for praise to Satan, come to think of it... The only reason I remember the Satanic religion being named after Satan was as a way of denying God. If you worship Satan, you deny God, and if you deny God, you deny religion, and eventually, atheism surfaces.

Something like that. I'm not a religious scholar, so I don't know all the details.