I don’t mean this as a “gotcha” or anything, I’m just a genuinely confused Abrahamic Pagan.
Why *are* the tenants of….whichever Satanic organization not seen as common sense?
Like “your body is your own, don’t be a dick to others” seems to be the basis of each one. Be it the church of Satan, satanic temple, or global order or Satan.
Why is it associated with satanism of all things? Im episcopal and I agree with the tenants.
I also just have trouble wrangling with satanic imagery, but that’s admittedly a me problem.
I grew up evangelical and I still vibe with Jesus and the Saints who notoriously are…not on friendly terms with Satan. And I do know that the way y’all go about satanism is not *actual* Satan The Devil(tm) worship, but it still gives me a knotty feeling that I don’t know how to deconstruct, no matter how much I want to keep an open minds
Well, the tenets of the Church of Satan, Satanic Temple, and Global Order of Satan are all somewhat different.
Like, the Eleven Satanic Rules of Earth really aren't just common sense.
Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them.
When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved.
Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained.
Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself.
Do not harm little children.
Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food.
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.
The Nine Satanic Statements and Nine Satanic Sins even more so, and then Pentagonal Revisionism is both "reactionary" and "weird as hell".
You're right when it comes to the Seven Tenets of the Satanic Temple, but we'd argue that they are anodyne by design other than the places they couldn't help themselves ("the freedom to offend" as a concept and winking reference to Might Is Right with "nobility in action and thought"). The whole point is that its appeal is spicy Unitarian Universalism. The Global Order of Satan's Six Pillars are an outgrowth of that, but as far as we can tell, done a bit more sincerely and with a commitment to being organized along those principles rather than a grift.
But you don't have to be a Satanist, and we would in fact encourage no one to be.
(A case against) Identifying with Satanism in the modern world and what value that has, from some queer Satanists who ought to know better b
But, that also should explain the appeal it has to those people who Satanism in a non-problematic way does appeal to.
