Hi!
About 8 months ago I started doing research into satanism and found JOS. I grew up xtian but my faith was destroyed by a news story about a 16 year old girl who got kidnapped, raped and burned alive. I kept thinking "the god I was raised to believe in wouldn't allow something like that to happen".
I didn't go straight to satanism, it took quite a while for me to find any real info. The thing is, the world at large talks a lot about it and doesn't really know anything, so I try to ignore what xtians say about satanism. My problem is, how to know what's real and what's not...
Is it a matter of choice? Choice of what to believe?
My mom told me about friends of her whose parents were apparently satanists, and she described a fairly gruesome ritual she watched one night at their house. She said that most religions (with emphasis on satanism) will depict itself as more "pleasant" than it actually is in an effort to hook people.
What I've read on the website suggests that nobody in the satanic community could care less if I was also a satanist. This is what I want to believe, but is it right to just ignore my own my mother as ignorant?
It's things like this that give me pause for thought. The problem is that while I'm pausing, I'm not getting anywhere...
I've considered dedicating, but then I come to the question ... will doing this allow me to become what I want to be? I know what I want to be. What I don't know is how to describe it...
Clearly I'm a bit lost, but I'm open. Any comments or advice are more than welcome.
Thanks for reading!
About 8 months ago I started doing research into satanism and found JOS. I grew up xtian but my faith was destroyed by a news story about a 16 year old girl who got kidnapped, raped and burned alive. I kept thinking "the god I was raised to believe in wouldn't allow something like that to happen".
I didn't go straight to satanism, it took quite a while for me to find any real info. The thing is, the world at large talks a lot about it and doesn't really know anything, so I try to ignore what xtians say about satanism. My problem is, how to know what's real and what's not...
Is it a matter of choice? Choice of what to believe?
My mom told me about friends of her whose parents were apparently satanists, and she described a fairly gruesome ritual she watched one night at their house. She said that most religions (with emphasis on satanism) will depict itself as more "pleasant" than it actually is in an effort to hook people.
What I've read on the website suggests that nobody in the satanic community could care less if I was also a satanist. This is what I want to believe, but is it right to just ignore my own my mother as ignorant?
It's things like this that give me pause for thought. The problem is that while I'm pausing, I'm not getting anywhere...
I've considered dedicating, but then I come to the question ... will doing this allow me to become what I want to be? I know what I want to be. What I don't know is how to describe it...
Clearly I'm a bit lost, but I'm open. Any comments or advice are more than welcome.
Thanks for reading!