Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right?

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[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

My parents shielded us from our bible thumping great-grandparents.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And let me guess, they didn't thump the most important parts.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Behind the scenes it's a false flag operation: slander God by having a bunch of people do evil in his name, and attribute his good deeds to Satan instead.

[–]Antarchomachus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can't tell if you are joking are not. These guys' so-called 'satanism' is entirely ironic like the pastafarians, and mainly used as a symbolic rejection of evangelical cultural values

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right, but the point is to use Christendom to depict God as an evil, oppressive tyrant. And this is particularly hard to debunk today, when everyone is convinced that God is incapable of speaking to post-ancient people and needs to rely on a book written by humans and authorized by humans, and is supposedly not only infallible but also has totally not been tampered with in the thousands of years it had to be copied by hand, and the popular English translations of it are totally not corrupt and theologically biased. Thus all the Satanic forgeries like 1 Timothy must be treated as holy and unquestioned.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Only in the same way Muslims are.