If you do not believe in what your religion teaches, why continue to support a belief which is contradictory with your feelings. You would never vote for a person or issue you did not believe in, so why cast your ecclesiastical vote for a religion which is not consistent with your convictions? You have no right to complain about a political situation you have voted for or supported in any way - which includes sitting back and complacently agreeing with neighbors who approve the situation, just because you are too lazy or cowardly to speak your mind. So it is with religious balloting. Even if you cannot be aggressively honest about your opinions because of unfavorable consequences from employers, community leaders, etc., you can, at least, be honest with yourself. In the privacy of your own home and with close friends you must support religion which has YOUR best interests at heart.
source: The Satanic Bible, by Anton Lavey / Some Evidence Of New Satanic Age (PDF)
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Shall I Say: Hail Satan?
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"Even if you cannot be aggressively honest about your opinions because of unfavorable consequences from employers, community leaders, etc., you can, at least, be honest with yourself."
I think this hesitance, this self-deceit, this fear of being honest with ourselves even in the privacy of our own minds, is the result of years spent trying to *convince* ourselves with a given truth instead of *looking* for the truth. All along, we've been finding reasons and excuses to make it more believable. Questions pop up every now and then, but we silence them or tell ourselves, "There must be an explanation, but one that is larger than my human mind to understand. I can't understand everything- I don't need to."
You cannot really support a religion which has your best interests at heart until you acknowledge that there's nothing wrong or condemnable about your best interests, can you?
It is never easy to make deductions about whats your (or sm1 else's) best interest. Considering Darwinism, one can say that, because of the 'survival value' of religion, those religions existed. I assume you know the argument.
Times have changed, and the value of religion is on the decline. I see this as natural; Since societies evolve, the morals of those societies evolve as well. Knowledge and truth are strong weapons, and as long as we are having more educated people, the need for religion is on the decline.
Back in the old days, they looked at the skies in wonder and made galaxies are their Gods. But as science is evolving, the perceived picture of the universe is getting crisper.
In short, religion, at some point of time, although it eluded people from honest truth, has provided people values of interest to them.
Additionally, condemning your own interest is at best self-betrayal.
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