Satanic temple runs the after school satan project, which teaches kids science, critical thinking, and rationalism. Also, the Hellions Academy of Independent Learning (HAIL) projectchampions non-discrimination policies while offering secular-aligned values like empathy, compassion, inclusion, and justice without religious coercion. Sessions feature hands-on projects, STEAM activities, arts, games, community service, and local history tours.

The christians think its inappropriate and want it shut down.

people tend to overlook the fact that Old Testament God is quite a colorful character. Dude had no chill.

The Abrahamaic god is a wargod and god of destruction. It’s based on the gods of the Pantheon the people in the Levant worshipped before monotheism. And every god in that Pantheon has something to do with war, death or destruction.

Also, Lucifer his wings were ripped off and he was banned to the underworld forever because he was asking God to give humans another chance and to have some trust in the human ability to learn from their mistakes (after Adam and Eve ate from the apple). God wouldn't have it. Humans made a single mistake and they shall be punished forever. Such a nice guy.

If I had to choose between God and Jeffrey Dahmer, I choose Dahmer. Dahmer doesn't give children leukemia.

The other angels be like:

Did this many of you seriously manage to read that without getting unreasonably annoyed and distract by the "dirt" on your screens? Like damn.. I even took all my meds today and still couldn't get past that.

I swear, the drama with these two!

Hey now, how can someone who tortured Job for shit and giggles not be a good guy :)

The only account we have of Satan is in the Bible. Not exactly an unbiased source.

If you think of God as just a collective narcissistic projection of human dysfunction, authoritarianism, and self-preservation, then it makes a lot more sense as to why God’s “love” seems so abusive.

Satan has an interesting position in Faust

ERM, actually, didn't he kill Jobs family? (Not like it makes it any better. Imagine someong killing your family, then gives you 2 extra families in the future)

Xtians certainly modeled themselves after god pretty well.

You have encountered Gnostic thought (and related heresies!) The Gnostics believed that the God of the Christian Old Testament was actually Satan all along. It is an interesting rabbit hole to fall down into.

Yeah, i got in a bunch of trouble for that line of thinking in Sunday School.

They were, however, unable to scare the logic out of me.

God is a narcissistic fuck

Gnosis

Well, no. If you're taking a stack of supposed moral allegories as fact, Lucifer was cast out for defying God, not for being naughty. Lucifer wouldn't kneel to mankind and serve them, thinking them lesser, so God tossed him out. Again, if you think myths are facts.

The goal is to get you to accept that "your betters" can never do wrong and when you suffer consequences it's due to a greater plan you are not privy to rather than letting you hold them accountable. The intent is to get you to accept without question the authority and judgement of the powers that be du jour, whether it's the king, the rich, the state... whatever needs to pacify you enough to keep you productive and docile. Satan therefore represents and embodies all of the human qualities of self-determination and true freedom.

Satan was a very minor character in The Bible.

Anyone who has done DMT knows that the Cosmic Serpent, the green lady, the insectoid creatures, the scary clowns, the machine elves . . . . while scary to us, are benevolent, welcoming and healing. I have always felt that the serpent in the tree of knowledge (Ayahuasca) was the good guy.

Cain = Satan = same ol story through the game of telephone of history

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“Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost