>>While many of the Nine Statements advocate what is denied in the Ten Commandments, they do not encourage rape, theft and murder. LaVey saw the need for a church that would recapture the minds of men and celebrate carnal and other desires. He also believed that rational self-interest was something to be encouraged and a healthy ego championed. For interest, the Nine Satanic Statements are listed below.
1) Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence!
2) Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
3) Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
4) Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates!
5) Satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek!
6) Satan represents responsibility to the responsible, instead of concern for psychic vampires!
7) Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all fours who, because of his ?divine spiritual and intellectual development?, has become the most vicious animal of all!
8) Satan represents all the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
9) Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years.<<
Atheism + Satire of Christianity + weird rules that sound kinda funny when you read them
1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!
2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!
5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his ?divine spiritual and intellectual development,? has become the most vicious animal of all!
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!
1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
3. When in another?s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
9. Do not harm little children.
10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
From what I understand, they are generally a group of Atheists who believe that we should indulge ourselves, that we are free to our human nature and free to choice. And that we should not be subjected to rules and laws which have no actual rational reason to accommodate them.
Basically, you live life in the moment. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND.... I could be off on this so don't quote me.
He tried to write a book using the same old character that the other silly fiction books already had. He changed his nature a little but it's still stupid stuff!!!
To be an egotistical, self-worship ping narcissist. Which is ironically what Lucifer was cast out of Heaven for, for those traits. So it's no surprise that you find it imprinted in LaVey's "Satanic bible."
what is the basic belief under laveyan satanism ?
