Unlike some people.

  • blackmesa [comrade/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Satan is a symbol of the Eternal Rebel in opposition to arbitrary authority, forever defending personal sovereignty even in the face of insurmountable odds. Satan is an icon for the unbowed will of the unsilenced inquirer – the heretic who questions sacred laws and rejects all tyrannical impositions. Our metaphoric representation is the literary Satan best exemplified by Milton and the Romantic Satanists from Blake to Shelley to Anatole France

    • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      And God is capricious and cruel asshole. Torturing people for fucking eternity just cause they don't lick your balls, fuck that. If i believed in the judeo-christian mythos I'd be a Luciferian.

    • Historyprimer1 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Satan rebelled because he wanted the throne, not because he wanted to smash authority. Also he didnt want to do free labor for us mortals, even the selfish man doesnt side with satan

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think "literally created everything in the world and has complete knowledge and power over every single aspect of it" is a bit more than "arbitrary" authority tbh.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          God literally came up with every little thing tho. The idea of "right" wouldn't even exist if he didn't make you such that you will think that. He can't even not be in control because everything you do or think happens because he came up with it. And you know what? If this is all his pet simulation, he knows literally everything and controls every little detail then whatever, I'll just go with it and hope he doesn't give me cancer AIDS.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Christianity is a horrifying lovecraftian religion

              This is the correct answer.

              And if they’re not then why would it be wrong?

              I dunno. For all we know God might just be fucking with us and he doesn't really give a shit. Maybe there is an afterlife but it is the same for everyone and it is just having sex with cereals.

                • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Just consider the possibilities. Maybe God doesn't even have the powers he is supposed to have, he's just pretending because why not. He doesn't have any idea what is going on right now because he is fast forwarding to the next interesting part, which is why there hasn't been much interesting God shit happening lately. And the only people who live to the afterlife are those who can spit watermelon seeds the farthest, because he wants them to have epic watermelon spitting wars with each other.