Apartment Life = Satantist?
kimmyfrmtx:
Quote from: ragingtexan;1362174
Wikipedia for Satanism.
No allusions to witchcraft exist within the article, which is my main argument with the premise that GAMBLER and the rest put forth - it's immediately logically false and intellectually dishonest to associate witchcraft with Satanism.
Thanks for the wiki (I think). I still don't know much more than I did before but I have a starting place to learn more about it. The different beliefs have always fascinated me and have ask questions of many people practicing those beliefs to mixed reactions. Some seem offended - to the other extreme, some want to "convert" me.
How to explain to a non-simmer it is just the knowledge sim in me wanting to know about everything? Oh well, such is life.
I agree tho, it is a game. If someone doesn't like certain aspects of it, don't play it. I am not into green aliens "trying to blend in" to a humanoid neighborhood. It just doesn't compute in my brain. No one would notice a "green person with bug eyes and a tiny little nose" trying to pass itself off as human.
My friend has whole neighborhoods that are complete aliens from various planets.
Neither of us are right or wrong, we don't try to convert each other, we just ask about how each others hood is coming along and accept that it makes the other happy.
ragingtexan:
Quote from: kathy;1362175
Which brings me to my next question.. how many of us actually understand modern day satanism? I will be the first to admit that I have no idea other than the articles I read from the 80's.
And that's the entire issue - there's not much knowledge short of conjecture and base propaganda from Christian religions - while I admit to being totally indoctrinated by Southern Baptism in my youth, there's a staunch degree of propaganda involved in most anti-Christianity arguments, which is the crux of the debate here. My understanding of the Church of Satan (as levied forth by Anton Szandor LaVey) it's a stone's throw from secular humanism with a handful of occultism thrown in for good measure.
From what I've read on the official doctrine, their premise for the religion seems pretty shaky and contradictory.One argument states that they more-or-less reject the dualist concept of God and Satan. On the other hand, they explicitly refer to the "Prince of Darkness." It's fairly asinine and not well-reasoned in the least, but it's no less terrible than such an argument as GAMBLER posits forth with his/her ejaculations of odd logic and reasoning.
pinkshoe:
Thank you for the insightful replies!
It's nice to see that you can actually post here with a concern without getting your head bashed in!
Joowish,
I didn't mean you!I totally meant Kathy!l :) I am just kidding Kathy
kathy:
I think tomorrow after the kids are at school I will read up on it a bit more. The media has always painted it to be something completely different and as well all know the media feeds us what they want us to believe.. regardless whether it is correct or not.
Sam the T-man:
I've found an interesting article about witchcraft:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/646051/witchcraft
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