What are you doing on the internet with your rationale and understanding?!!?! You'd better leave now.

How is this issue even remotely related to segregation? Sure, there's something to be said about prejudice with respect to religion or lack thereof, but the accusation of segregation makes little to no sense since nobody is being divided or ostracized based on religion. I think you're being a bit presumptuous here.

Apartment Life = Santatist! Damn that Santa!

...Because it's factually incorrect? Like she said, did you even read the entire thread? What's with the jingoistic crap too?

*angrily bashes pinkshoe's head in*

How dare you try and be civil!!!!!

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.

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.

Crazy. Sort of like Chucky from Child's Play.

Thanks for the great update!

Absolutely. If you're going to portray yourself/your beliefs as a shining example of the standards to which humanity should hold itself, you need to be what you want to see in the world. We're not grasping for straws here, it's basic logic.


No, it's a patently false line of logic. Satanism and Wiccanism are not one and the same, and that's that. Such beliefs are intellectually dishonest.

Of course there's such a thing. It's called Jews for Jesus. And if such contradictions in belief exist and are widely held with some sort of credibility, I don't understand how j00wish is being "petty". Those sorts of accusations are underhanded and insulting, and I defy you to argue otherwise.