But just a comment ago you didn't understand how rituals could not be magic when you were pretending TST was espousing magic by performing rituals. Strange.
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A ritual act in itself ≠ magic. However, using rituals with religious trappings to focus your 'energy' and emptions in order to obtain a desired outcome is essentially what satanic magic is.
if it’s a long explanation don’t worry about it but what is the basis behind the struggle between the CoS and TST?
as i was saying earlier when i talked about it on twitter i was mobbed by the CoS members even though i never said a word about them
i posted about the satanic temple & they swarmed
They feel that they own Satanism and that it is their duty — lacking any other purpose or activities — to proselytize to everybody who might listen that they are the only true Satanists.
And so you know just how flexible their adherence to their own philosophy is, they claim to oppose proselytizing and have a tenet that demands their adherents not give opinions unless asked.
ok so let me get this straight
we’re all atheists
we’re all anti theism
none of us believe in magic
we all have purpose behind the use
but we are supposed to fight about something because we’re humans so let’s go with the word satanist in this scenario
that seems very silly to me
Well, they claim to not believe in magic but that you can harness some inexplicable "supernormal" power through ritual. But they can believe what they want. I don't care. It's just tedious that they always feel a need to inaccurately comment about TST when nobody asked to begin with.
My response would be that, when you care about something you belong to, you don't like people misrepresenting it or applying it to something it isn't. People constantly bastardise the term 'Goth', to mean any celeb wearing black lipstick. I care about my subculture and dislike the misinformation
Spread by outsiders who try to misuse the term. We see Satanism in that way. We see the religion of Satanism as being the religion founded by LaVey. No one treats other religions like they do Satanism, telling us we have to accept separate ideologies that dont use our founding texts/philosophy
Im not here to cause a huge argument or shit storm, so I won't elaborate unless you ask any questions. But I just wanted to provide the 'other side's' answer to balance things out
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What's the difference?
as i was saying earlier when i talked about it on twitter i was mobbed by the CoS members even though i never said a word about them
i posted about the satanic temple & they swarmed
we’re all atheists
we’re all anti theism
none of us believe in magic
we all have purpose behind the use
but we are supposed to fight about something because we’re humans so let’s go with the word satanist in this scenario
that seems very silly to me