Church of Satan

Current Event: Church of Satan and separation of church and state: Alex Newkirk The First Amendment of the U.S. constitution prohibits making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (U.S. Constitution) This means that our government guarantees United States citizens religious freedom. It does not say anything about the separation of church and states, but to grant us religious freedom. It also implores us to petition our government if it does infringe on our religious freedoms guaranteed to us in the First…

Fun fact, Laveyan Satanism has no god; it’s more of a way of life. Laveyan Satanism stands for self indulgence, you do whatever pleases you without harming others who have done no harm to you. Satan is present in this religion only as a face or image to represent its followers as a whole, but he is not praised. Buddhism is the same way with this aspect; buddhists have no god. Buddha is simply a face for their religion, he is important, but not worshiped. Buddhism is all about finding peace…

They think to just live your life to the fullest because this is all you got, your one shot. When you die, you die you do not go anyway after, you do not reincarnate. A interesting fact about the Satanic Bible is it 90% talks about what true Satanics should believe in but the other 10 percent it educates you about other religions and what they believe about Satan. It mostly talks about Catholicism and the Pagan religion. For example it explains why Catholics believe Satan is half goat.…

Even more than Tess, Angel Clare’s view of religion is heavily influenced by his upbringing and his attempt to break away from it. Angel’s father is a parson, and both of his brothers studied at Cambridge to become ordained. Just as Tess resents her family’s more ancient traditions, Angel tells his father he does not want to study to become ordained because the church, “refuses to liberate her mind from an untenable redemptive theolatry” (Hardy 91). Despite Angel’s desire to be different from…

Those of the Bahá'í faith believe that the body, mind, and spirit grow when they are tried by suffering. Trails or tests are viewed as a gift from God. Those who have these tests and persevere will have happiness while those who don’t are cowards. They are asked to turn to God and pray when enduring these tests and be thankful. “Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by the Divine Mercy for our own perfecting” (Bahá'í International Community 2013). Job persevered and…

devil transform in to the beast that the modern world knows him? The earliest reference of the devil is in the Old Testament. According to Reverend Tom Wright, from the documentary The History of the Devil, Satan “is a title meaning the accuser”. In the Old Testament, the accuser works for God. Without any power of his own, Satan follows the command of God and does “the dirty work’. He was an angel in the book so he did not have his red skin or horns or goat hooves. Satan appears in the book of…

heaven and hell, are popular in all great Christian works, and Hamlet is no exception. These allusions appear in books and stories like Paradise Lost by John Milton, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. These four books are noted for their Christian allegory, and many of the allusions that appear in these stories also appear in Hamlet as well. Before one can analyze the allegories that Shakespeare used…

red being with horns with a long pointed tail with a pitch fork. If such a creature approached you, you would recognize it each time and flee. Unconsciously, too many Christians have come to believe that Satan always comes in a recognizable form. Faulty thinking. Faulty because there are some Christians who believe that Satan and his caravan are incapable in…

Emotions are not the only tool used by Satan against us. As we continue to look at the story of Job, we see another tool in the arsenal of Satan. Just for the sake of simplicity, let’s call this second tool compound problem. I’m sure you are familiar with those, or at least the phrases “if it isn’t one thing, it’s another”, “when it rains, it pours”, etc. Notice that Satan did not give Job time to focus, or room to breath. He sent problem on top of problem, test after test and trial after…

outset of the York pageant ‘The Fall of Man’, simply by playing on the fact that the audience knows more than Eve does. Satan’s opening speech tells the audience that he is going to easily trick her; this implies that she is perhaps unintelligent and so immediately colours our opinion of her. Having Satan announce his plan means that even those unfamiliar with the story know more than Eve does, and so dramatic irony is employed when Eve interacts with him. The knowledge that Eve is being tricked…