Rational Satanist
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- May 13, 2021
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Propaganda claim #1: JoS is a cult
The word cult can have lots of meanings. It can mean a religious sect or a strange non-mainstream religion. Obviously I don't deny these meanings can apply to us, since we are "strange" compared to mainstream religions. But those who use it against us usually don't mean that, but they mean a destructive cult.
A destructive cult controls all of a person's life, takes all their money and is hierarchical and usually led by a charismatic leader who exploits and manipulates the other cult members. It cuts that person from his family, threatens to reveal everything to their family if that person tries to leave the cult and often leads them to self-destruction and even suicide.
You can see that a free online site with a free online forum where you can join anonymously and leave whenever you want is impossible to manipulate you. Actual cults gather as much of person's private information as they can so they can blackmail the person if they try to leave. Yet even in the forum here, one of the rules advises against sharing personal info, and if a person tries to post their personal info it gets censored. The entire religion of Spiritual Satanism is based on solitary practice and not meeting with others offline. Here in the forums it's even advised that if you are new you shouldn't meet up with anyone because it's dangerous. So to join Spiritual Satanism, all you have to do i read the JoS website, and start practicing power meditations and other things and do the Dedication ritual if you are ready. All these are practiced in the safety of your home. If you want to leave, you just stop practicing and leave and nobody can really stop you.
Some bring up a counter-argument that even if it doesn't overtly manipulate people, there are many people who get obsessed with SS to the point that they leave their family and get their lives ruined, and this means that they are manipulated just like in the cults somehow. But what obsessive personalities do isn't the responsibility of JoS. Obsessive personalities can get obsessed with everything: video games, porn e.t.c. Are you going to tell me that video games are a cult? If there's any overt manipulation going on that can be identified, then it doesn't prove your point.
Propaganda claim #2: JoS is out for the money
Obviously every organization needs money to keep going. Nothing is run for free. But being "out for the money" means something else: that it's interested in making money above everything else and not for example doing Satan's will or helping people.
Let's start with an easy argument against this: If JoS is only interested in money, where are the ads in the site and forums? I'm using Ublock Origin with most filters enabled, and yet it blocks nothing. Zero ads or trackers. You can load the site on an adblocker and see this for yourself. On the contrary I have seen many site admins who are actually interested in money whine about adblock users.
Add to that the fact that membership is completely free and you don't need to pay anything in order to join, and all the teachings, sermons, meditations, magick and other information you need to practice Spiritual Satanism is on the site, completely free and available for everyone. On the other hand, a fake Satanist here was selling a 40-page book with "prayers and meditations for spiritual warfare" for $11. Also many (fake) Satanic organizations require money to join and make you swear an oath that you won't reveal any of their teachings to everyone. And many times, these very organizations are the ones who accuse JoS just being in for the money.
The only means the JoS ministry has for making money is donations, which is not a very reliable one. It only works if people really like what you are offering, and if you get lots of money in donations it means you are actuallly offering something of value to people and you aren't just in for the money. That is, unless you are a marxist co-founder of BLM who uses the money gathered from donations to buy a home worth $1.4 million while you promise to use this money for social justice and black people. If you support BLM while you accuse JoS of being money-hungry, congratulations: you went full retard.
The subjects that the JoS organization deals with are so fringe, unpopular and controversial that it's impossible to make lots of money promoting them: Satanism, National Socialism, Aliens, anti-semitism, questioning the mainstream narrative (like for example on the Covid scam and the dangerous non-vaccines (actually experimental gene therapies) and wokeness/cultural marxism). All of these are not only unpopular, but censored, so even if you try to promote these things in mainstream internet places they get shut down. Even payment processors and crowdfunding sites ban them. By contrast, if the JoS really was interested in only money, they would drop all the Satan stuff, stop antagonizing christianity and the mainstream narrative, stop attacking the jews and instead make it something that promises to improve your life and make you lots of money, and in general give you whatever you want regardless of what beliefs you have. You can see this in popular New Age authors and lecturers: what they have in common is they never antagonize christianity (they even use bible verses to show that their teachings are compatible with it), they never exclude anyone and they make it all about your peace and prosperity. Usually all of this is wrapped in feel-good language which tells you what you want to hear instead of the cold, hard truth.
Propaganda claim #3: JoS are "racist" Nazis
Nobody here denies being a National Socialist, but these propagandists make it seem as if we hate all non-whites, not just jews. This is so easy to refute: There are many non-white members here and there are specific groups for different non-white races. In fact, nobody asks you for your race, unless you are a jew.
In the past, many people claimed to have been banned because they were black or whatever but when questioned it turned out they were banned because they were causing trouble and being anti-white assholes, not because they were black or whatever else. In short, it was a classic case of projection: they projected their own anti-white racism to JoS.
We support separation of the races, but also allow every other race to develop and advance on their own separately without any harm to any races. In fact, most of the race-baiting designed to cause race-wars is done by the jews, as you can see in the case of the Soros-funded BLM and jewish "professors" who talk about destroying whiteness.
The word cult can have lots of meanings. It can mean a religious sect or a strange non-mainstream religion. Obviously I don't deny these meanings can apply to us, since we are "strange" compared to mainstream religions. But those who use it against us usually don't mean that, but they mean a destructive cult.
A destructive cult controls all of a person's life, takes all their money and is hierarchical and usually led by a charismatic leader who exploits and manipulates the other cult members. It cuts that person from his family, threatens to reveal everything to their family if that person tries to leave the cult and often leads them to self-destruction and even suicide.
You can see that a free online site with a free online forum where you can join anonymously and leave whenever you want is impossible to manipulate you. Actual cults gather as much of person's private information as they can so they can blackmail the person if they try to leave. Yet even in the forum here, one of the rules advises against sharing personal info, and if a person tries to post their personal info it gets censored. The entire religion of Spiritual Satanism is based on solitary practice and not meeting with others offline. Here in the forums it's even advised that if you are new you shouldn't meet up with anyone because it's dangerous. So to join Spiritual Satanism, all you have to do i read the JoS website, and start practicing power meditations and other things and do the Dedication ritual if you are ready. All these are practiced in the safety of your home. If you want to leave, you just stop practicing and leave and nobody can really stop you.
Some bring up a counter-argument that even if it doesn't overtly manipulate people, there are many people who get obsessed with SS to the point that they leave their family and get their lives ruined, and this means that they are manipulated just like in the cults somehow. But what obsessive personalities do isn't the responsibility of JoS. Obsessive personalities can get obsessed with everything: video games, porn e.t.c. Are you going to tell me that video games are a cult? If there's any overt manipulation going on that can be identified, then it doesn't prove your point.
Propaganda claim #2: JoS is out for the money
Obviously every organization needs money to keep going. Nothing is run for free. But being "out for the money" means something else: that it's interested in making money above everything else and not for example doing Satan's will or helping people.
Let's start with an easy argument against this: If JoS is only interested in money, where are the ads in the site and forums? I'm using Ublock Origin with most filters enabled, and yet it blocks nothing. Zero ads or trackers. You can load the site on an adblocker and see this for yourself. On the contrary I have seen many site admins who are actually interested in money whine about adblock users.
Add to that the fact that membership is completely free and you don't need to pay anything in order to join, and all the teachings, sermons, meditations, magick and other information you need to practice Spiritual Satanism is on the site, completely free and available for everyone. On the other hand, a fake Satanist here was selling a 40-page book with "prayers and meditations for spiritual warfare" for $11. Also many (fake) Satanic organizations require money to join and make you swear an oath that you won't reveal any of their teachings to everyone. And many times, these very organizations are the ones who accuse JoS just being in for the money.
The only means the JoS ministry has for making money is donations, which is not a very reliable one. It only works if people really like what you are offering, and if you get lots of money in donations it means you are actuallly offering something of value to people and you aren't just in for the money. That is, unless you are a marxist co-founder of BLM who uses the money gathered from donations to buy a home worth $1.4 million while you promise to use this money for social justice and black people. If you support BLM while you accuse JoS of being money-hungry, congratulations: you went full retard.
The subjects that the JoS organization deals with are so fringe, unpopular and controversial that it's impossible to make lots of money promoting them: Satanism, National Socialism, Aliens, anti-semitism, questioning the mainstream narrative (like for example on the Covid scam and the dangerous non-vaccines (actually experimental gene therapies) and wokeness/cultural marxism). All of these are not only unpopular, but censored, so even if you try to promote these things in mainstream internet places they get shut down. Even payment processors and crowdfunding sites ban them. By contrast, if the JoS really was interested in only money, they would drop all the Satan stuff, stop antagonizing christianity and the mainstream narrative, stop attacking the jews and instead make it something that promises to improve your life and make you lots of money, and in general give you whatever you want regardless of what beliefs you have. You can see this in popular New Age authors and lecturers: what they have in common is they never antagonize christianity (they even use bible verses to show that their teachings are compatible with it), they never exclude anyone and they make it all about your peace and prosperity. Usually all of this is wrapped in feel-good language which tells you what you want to hear instead of the cold, hard truth.
Propaganda claim #3: JoS are "racist" Nazis
Nobody here denies being a National Socialist, but these propagandists make it seem as if we hate all non-whites, not just jews. This is so easy to refute: There are many non-white members here and there are specific groups for different non-white races. In fact, nobody asks you for your race, unless you are a jew.
In the past, many people claimed to have been banned because they were black or whatever but when questioned it turned out they were banned because they were causing trouble and being anti-white assholes, not because they were black or whatever else. In short, it was a classic case of projection: they projected their own anti-white racism to JoS.
We support separation of the races, but also allow every other race to develop and advance on their own separately without any harm to any races. In fact, most of the race-baiting designed to cause race-wars is done by the jews, as you can see in the case of the Soros-funded BLM and jewish "professors" who talk about destroying whiteness.