Faith, Holy, Spiritual, Scripture

Faith-this is one of the most reviled and shunned words in Satanism.
Occasionally a newcomer will say something like I wish to share my faith with others
who are similar.... or , our faith is strong...., and they will be reprimanded verbally
warned that it is not appropriate to use such a word to describe satanism ,
I am not entirely sure why this word in particular , above others is disliked.


Satanism much of the time dose not refer to itself in religious terms.
Especially religious terms that imply something illogical like Faith Spiritual Holy.
It is more likely to describe itself as UNHOLY on account of this rejection of superstion
and the irrational aspects of other religons.


Religious elememts that are kept including dogmatic and ritualistic elements
are heavily intellectualized and understood to be trickery and psychology, so
that satanists would not consider any element of the religion to contain anything is
anti-intellectual or submissive to any unknown or inhuman forces.


The word Faith is perhaps most representative of the intellectually limiting
aspects of religion. Where there is Faith there is less need for intellectulism,
And where is less intellectualism, there is less mental freedom, imagination and more of an acceptance
to follow the herd into whatever pen the leaders of the religion are putting them into.


No, in Satanism there is no Faith intellectually or emotionally in the
beliefs, in church of Satan or its leaders or in anything else.
Stupidity is the greatest challenge to the future of mankind
trust must be earned , intellectually accounted for, and be emotionally
natural clear, in short Faith is bad word to use to describe the
emotions or beliefs of realists.


SCRIPTURE.

The way we treat Satanic texts,those written by those who respect
is not as a sheep would follow a herder. therefore we do not
call them Scriptures and referring to Satanic books ant text
sa such a term normally couses lips to curl !!
Buddhists, Christians and Muslims have scriptures, not SATANISTS

Yet Brother, if you worship Satan as a deity, then those particular words have their place. I consider myself to have Theistic inclinations and I actually do not look upon these words with disdain.

I am inclined to think that those who shun these words are attempting to distance themselves from Christianity as much as possible. As Satanists, I believe in of course shunning the Christian dogma, but without Christianity, there would be no Satanism.

Not that I intend to invert everything that I've ever been taught in Christianity. Satanists still adhere to a moral code and mine is still the same as when I was a Christian.