If people think doing spells is a Satanist thing, then doesn't that make Jesus a Satanist?
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Surely miracles are some from of sorcery. I also found out something else which I didn't know before, some of the silly people who told me I was evil for using crystals, but crystals are mentioned in the bible, and I believe it says nothing about it being evil. I don't know about Jesus, I am aware that there are records of a fellow called Jesus but I don't know if his miracles were real. I do know that many ancient people believed that some people could perform miracles because they could heal and do other things which we take for granted today.
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Some Wiccans do not believe in the Judeo-Christian concept of a duality of good and evil. These Wiccans do not see that there is a war in the universe between a good god and a bad devil. This is something that the Bible teaches and Wicca's beliefs come from way before the Bible was ever written. Wiccans do believe in consequences however. And they believe that whatever you do is returned back to you three times as much! So if you hurt people, you are really hurting yourself; and if you are kind to people, you are really being kind to yourself. If a Wiccan ever did a "spell" to control another person, the Wiccan would face the consequence of having themselves be controlled three times as strong!
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Does that primitive fairy tale sound right to you?  For example why wouldn't Satan use his powers to make Hell really nice so that people wanted to go to Hell?  He could gain power by being nice.  The whole good and evil nonsense in the Bible is really very silly if you actually analyze it.
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I assume you are speaking from a Christian perspective, I do not think modern Satanists read the bible as such.  Modern Satanism is very much akin to humanism, where the self is supreme, a form of self-worship.  Satanists do not necessarily directly worship a god called Satan but revere themselves as gods.  Some of a christian background may choose this 'religion' as it seems rebellious or 'scary'\n\nAs for a genuine worship of Satan ... well at least Lucifer, there is a group of people in the middle-east called the Yezedis who revere Lucifer, they have a similar creation story to genesis but believe the 'peacock angel/feathered serpent' was a wise mentor to mankind, and that God is impersonal and distant from mankind.  The Yezedis are very secretive about their religion and never refer to Lucifer as Satan, but call him the peacock angel or the feathered serpent.  They don't drink blood or sacrifice children, but they worship Lucifer and think he is good rather than evil.\n\nIn the past there were several pagan religions in the middle east that endorsed child-sacrifice, but these religions involved worship of various fertility gods rather than acknowledging a Judeo-Christian Satan.  In the bible it is written that various kings endorsed such religions and this lead to the downfall of Israel and Judah\n\nAs answer to your question why would someone willingly worship Satan while knowing about Jesus, a need to be different, rebelliousness and perhaps a severe religious upbringing\n\nPS I am not a satanist but fascinated by unusual things
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Ok, when I post this thers going to be so many ppl disagreeing with me it's unreal, but this is my oppinion!  All of that stuff does exist, but the power they have is from the devil... i also feel some people practice these things without fully analyizing ti first b/c they think it's "cool"! so once again everyone has a different oppinion on it, but that's mine!
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Of course, but Satan is not necessarily a bodily being, rather can incarnate if he were to so choose.  Satan is a concept more than a corporeal being, and basically means the Accuser or the Deceiver.  It is my understanding, from theological studies, that Satan is subordinate to Lucifer, or at most reflections of Lucifer.  Others believe that Satan and Lucifer are the same.\n\nI'll skip the part about the Babylonian Captivity and the Demiurge of Yezidism.  Although that is quite fascinating, it took me months of study to understand the role of the Demiurge, Shai'tan.\n\nIt is believed that the purpose of Satan is to test humanity, and to create spiritual entropy within an individual or group.\n\nimacatholic2 could best explain the Roman Catholic Church's position.
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Are you kidding? People calling themselves Satanists is like hanging a target around their necks. They are tailoring their worship to be opposed to Christians--who historically had to manufacture enemies for themselves from various nonchristian religions whom they had to label Satanists. People actually choosing to follow Satan is giving in to every Christian's paradigm of the world as the devil's empire and all nonchristians as followers of the devil. They've made the Christian's day by giving them a real and living enemy.\n\nI imagine Satanists, for the most part, do this intentionally to antagonize Christians. I can't imagine a Satanist just joining up because the doctrines are interesting or to give himself a strong moral framework. It's antagonism. That's the whole point--and if you antagonize people they tend to get mad.\n\nIf Satanists wanted to exist peacably they would do what most other marginallized groups do--find an obscure name for their system of belief, a less well known name for their demonic patron, and promote their canon of ideology as its own thing rather than trying to take on the Christian movement head on.
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Yes...alot of people do...but it is also used in Witchcraft...which is not Satanism!
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hmmm seems intresting, how can one worship both satan and God though, seems a bit contradictory.  the "not harming children"  yes, but as for the church of satan being added to any type of Christian beliefs seems to be contradicting the Christian faith all together.
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Wicca is not supposed to exclude any gods but we are each given a choice of which gods we choose to follow.  Most of us exclude Jesus and the Bible out of our beliefs completely because it is simply easier to.  Many of us have been surrounded by people who tell us that God hates psychics,  mediums,  readers and witches.  However,  it is often our natural abilities that make us psychic or mediums,  and our natural abilities or curiousities lead us to a more open path.  I have also,  personally,  been around enough Bible study groups that promote arrogance and pity towards my kind.  It is simply so much easier to shut oneself off from any and all Judeo-Christian beliefs and deities and become bitter.\n\nHowever,  I think that once one has really gotten a chance to experience their own spirituality without interference and look at everything from a relaxed standpoint,  one can really see that Jesus,  in his day and age,  if he existed,  was one awesome being.  Whether he was a actually a messiah or not,  I cannot and will not discern,  as I do not know.  What I do know is that if I were alive 2000 years ago,  I think I would've found a good friend in Jesus.
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Ouija  is satanic. No doubt about it.
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Magic that magicians do is slight of hand or illusions.\nMagic(k) as is what witches do--is like asking if there is a God. Depends who you ask--some people are believers others are not.
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Are you talking about Jesus, the little Mexican kid that cuts my grass? I don't think he is. Hell he barely speaks English. Or the other Jesus, the one I buy oranges from on my way home from work? I don't think he is either. \n\nOh! Do you mean Jesus Christ?  I think that most Christians and other religions try to give the impression that he would have been if he were still in human form. \nThat's what those WWJD? bracelets and stuff must be all about.\n\n I do know that the Devil is a Republican.
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No real goths are Satanists, the two outlooks just don't mesh.  You can't think be sensitive and artistic while purposely offending people.  It just doesn't work.  To answer your question, the problem are the pseudo-goths (aka Mansonites) who claim to be goth and Satanists.  Since there are ten of those fakers for every real goth, how goths really are gets ignored.
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I am pagan, not Wiccan....but since Wicca is a branch of paganism I'd love to answer any of your questions. Wiccans don't believe in Satan....which makes it kind of hard for them to be Satanists. The two main beliefs are harm none and what you do comes back to you threefold. As to which Gods/Goddesses Wiccans believe in, it depends on the person. I'd love to answer any more questions you have...so feel free to email me!
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No, they're not satanic. As a mater of fact, Davey was raised in a catholic home and went to a private Catholic school until 8th grade.
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I appreciate drshorty's honest but it only proves that Momonism is not biblical Christianity. The true Jesus who came to die and save us from our sins is the only begotten Son of God (John 1:1-4,14 3:16). He is not one of many spirit children but the ONLY begotten Son of God. Lucifer is an angel (not begotten son of God but a created being) who did rebel against God. So Momonism is false because they deny the foundation of Christianity. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. Begotten meaning of the same substance. Jesus is God (Titus 2:13) the second member of the Trinity (Matthew 3:16-17). Angels are created as are humans. Angels serve God (sometimes referred to as the sons of God but not begotten sons only Jesus is begotten) and humans when they accept the true Jesus become adopted children of God but not spirit children and not begotten children. satan is not God and is not begotten of God and is not Jesus brother. Jesus is God.