Witches Haven

A Trip Through the
Light Moronic

*A terrific piece by our friend and partner in crime, Northern Red.

I was wandering about the world of moronic one day, that would be Yahoo questions, and came across this one.
"Are Catholics Christian?"

Posted by a "Christian".
I give her a D for at least asking what she did not know. Only a D as she could spend the time to research but prefers to once again have her answers dictated by others, rather then her own study.
I give her an F, when she asserted further into her question, that she was a follower of Christ, a born again Christian, one who lived by the truth of the bible, and no where could she find in that bible, Catholics were Christian.

Apparently, her bible studies had not yet taken her to the gospel of Mathew. That little bitty part of the bible where Jesus in his own words, states
"I say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

Which is rather confusing, because I can only assume one who has never read a book of history, must be busy reading something else.
Since she informs us that her spare time is spent in bible study, I can only imagine she must be a very slow reader.
Tied up and bogged down back there in Deuteronomy or Leviticus no doubt.

I wonder, when Jesus stated those words to Peter that day, was the world and it's history laid out before his eyes?
Could he see the fractures and fissures in the future of that rock?
The many many paths and branches which would one day become the Christian belief system.
Did he see the Anglicans, and the Lutherans, and the Baptists? The fundamentalists who really don't know their fundamentals?
And could he see the problem children. The naughty side of "the Rock", the Satanists.

Satanists, whether theistic or atheistic in nature; those who perceive Satan as an ideal or as a deity. Whether followers of the Temple of Set, the Church of Satan or the Order of Nine Angles, are the way ward children of Christianity.

Whether a philosophy of life, or a religion, Satanism is Christian based, and Christian driven. It is a wheel on the same car.

If you speak to a Satanist, and I have as I really do enjoy our chats, and dialogues. Many times have I debated this issues with the Satanist, they will tell you, I am wrong.
Satanism is not a reaction to Christianity. Satan predates Christianity they inform me.

I won't be moved on this one point.

LaVey himself stated, "Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, and he has kept them in business all these years."
And to those of the mysterious, query mythical ONA, I remind, Nietzsche stated, "It was Christianity which first painted the Devil on the world's wall".

Yes yes, the opposer, the accuser, the adversary, the obstructer, the challenger, the light bringer, can be found in pre-Christian, Judea literature. Who more then likely were influenced by ancient Persian thought in the era of the great exile. That period of time between the writings of the Old Testament and the New Testament.
BUT....although I am the child of my mother's grandmother's, grandmother. I still see myself in the context of my mother's child.
We all have history, and ancestors, but we are directly influenced by what walks with us and beside us today.

In speaking with Satanists, I have come to learn what I have also learned from that young woman I mention previous who asks if Catholics are Christian. From what I have learned through Mary Louise Butterfly of the eclectic Pagan path, accolade of Starhawk and Cunningham; most do not know their history.

Do not study their origins, and roots. Have never so much as picked up the Book of Enoch, let alone dusted off the cover and opened it's pages. Never read the epic of Gilgamesh, never studied the Book of the Dead, know very little of ancient Greek myths and Norse legend. Have never even read the most popular and well circulated book of mythology the world has ever seen, The Bible.
But they've heard of it.

I have yet to come across a follower of Set who could tell you who the first demonizer historian was let alone read any of the history or writings of Herodutus.

The concept of Satan to the Satanists comes from a Judeo-Christian perspective.

So lets call a spade a spade and lay that aside, shall we.

Satan is not evil. If one is to take the myths of the bible as God's honest truth, I believe Satan needs to fire the PR department. Or as one of my young Satanist friends pointed out to me, "Satan is a really misunderstood dude."

Yes he certainly is.
Satan is the one angel who found free will, grabbed it by the balls, and ran like hell.
I don't blame him, I would have as well given the opportunity.

I have stated before, and I will state again, it is those angels without free will, those entities with one wing dipped in blood whom I most fear.
Those creatures of death, destruction. Those who kill first born babies, turn women into pillars of salt, bring plaque and pestilence, without remorse, without regret, without decision or choice, on the ordering of another. That is who I would never call upon. That is whom I would fear, if I feared much of anything.

Satan, well he's not such a bad guy. He is a rebel child. A rebel with a cause? Maybe.
But what of his followers, those other worldly and of this world? The demons, and the Satanists.

If Satan is an angel of free will, then I can only assume he grants his followers that same privilege.
It is the basis of his ethos after all. It is his entire reason for existence and survival.

Ah now, there is a conundrum.
Do we want to trust free will of another?
Are we prepared to give up our own authority to the free will of something else?

The occultist who thinks he can call on a demon and bend it to his own will is in for a bit of a challenge don't you think. This creature who refused to be driven by the dictates of a Supreme God is not likely to give up it's Will to the likes of you monkey.

There is danger in free will. I can only imagine that Satan, does not really have all that much control over his minions. Not if he walks his talk that is.
But what if Satan does not grant his other worldly followers free will? What if he is a great dictator just like that which created him? What if he has complete control over his minions?
Well then Satan, thine name is hypocrite. Get behind me Satan.

The only free Will I can discover is within humanity itself.
Grant it, it is a polluted free will, an impure free will. It is a Will affected by the dictates of society, and religion.
With free Will comes a moral responsibility.
Why?
Because we are in fact human. We are not monkeys. We must react in this world in a manner which brings light, not chaos, or we cannot exist inside this world.
LaVey presented the seven deadly sins as part of the human condition and unavoidable. Therefore ensuring man would sin, and would then require forgiveness from the church for their sins, creating some sort of a parasitic reliance on the church. Therefore one should embrace the seven deadly sins as part of ones humanity. As virtues.

Really?
Greed, lust, gluttony, wrath, pride...virtues? Really? This is the level of standard?
This is what ones free Will leads to accept as a virtue?
Mental, emotional and physical gratification?
This is the best we can do as a species?

There is no room for charity of spirit, empathy, compassion, in free will of man kind?
This is the highest level of humanity we can attain to?

I'm just asking.
I believe there are more choices. There is a middle ground between God and Satan. There is a place for humanity in the between.
There is that place of balance.
That is what I strive for.
My own free Will. My own rules, and dictates.
I will write my own gospel.

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