AskSatanOperator said:
The videos are against Christian religion but the arguments could still be used on your pagan religion
Have you read the JoS website? If you had, you would know that Satanism has different basic beliefs than Christianity, so these arguments do not apply here.
I'll skip the long 1 and half hour video and I'll take the short video you posted to demonstrate to you how what he says is irrelevant to Satanism.
Michael Shermer says: "There's an invisible dragon blahblahblah"
Yes, Christianity says that their god is invisible e.t.c. and you need to have faith. Satanism doesn't require you to have faith. You don't have to believe that Satan is real until you experience him yourself. You aren't required to believe in anything you haven't experienced, all you have to do is try the practices for yourself and see from your own experiences. If you experience nothing, you can just stop practicing and leave. You're not forced to have faith in something you haven't experienced.
He continues: "But I prayed to the dragon and my migraine went away..."
Christianity depends on an external being for healing, but Satanism does not. If you had read the site you would have known that too, as it says
"As opposed to the stories of how the Nazarene healed people;
Satan shows us how we can heal ourselves and perform so-called miracles, using our minds and the powers of our own souls."
Satanists use magick, which is our own powers of mind and spirit and don't depend on Satan to improve our physical life.
More from the video: "And the dragon explains why bad things happen, why there is a universe..."
The christian god is very much a being who created the universe and morality and controls everything, but Satan does not. He is not all-powerful. Nobody claims that he is all-powerful or controls everything or that he created the universe. His main purpose is to be a teacher to humanity, and to transmit spiritual knowledge to us. Our purpose is to use that knowledge to transform our souls and become living gods. So, the Christian God wants people to depend on him, but Satan wants us to use his knowledge and empower ourselves so that we do things on our own and not depend on him.
Satan's existence isn't used to explain anything here. We do believe in evolution just like you do. On the JoS site it says
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Spiritual Satanists acknowledge science and believe everything of the occult/supernatural to have a rational scientific explanation."
So, Satanism isn't even focused on Satan as much as Christianity is on their god, but is centered on humanity and our empowerment.
I can go on and on, but I will just stop here. You get the point. Again, you need to read the JoS site more. https://www.joyofsatan.org
