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Devil Worship?

Compliance as the sole therapeutic criteria of so-called Behavioral Medicine, the way that obedience is likewise an heteronymous virtue in religion, wherein the older mythological figure of Prometheus sentenced to excruciating torment in punishment for the theft fire hitherto withheld from humanity by the gods, in order to give fire to the cold and grubby masses of humanity, the rebellious benign martyred trickster and redeemer of downtrodden humanity, in an authoritarian twist, is split into two newer characters: Prometheus vilified, is the punished Fallen Angel, whereas Prometheus co-opted, is the suffering Redeemer sent forth in Divine authority, the Christ or the Buddha as Avatar of Vishnu. It's all as implausible and ambivalently rationalizing as revealing that Martin Luther King was working according to the benevolent plan of General Robert E. Lee all along! By contrast, Manichean Luciferian Gnosticism embraces a spiritual Prometheus, denouncing the Creator as a demeaning deceiver, the Maya. In a more modern take, there are actually Transhumanist Pro-Space Activists embracing a reverence for a Promethean figure hailed as the liberator not from spiritual worldliness as such, but actually from the constraints of gravitation itself and all that Terrestrial Earthbound civilization holds back in human progress and evolution. Indeed, traditionally often Devil Worship may actually only express Promethean reverence of freedom and autonomy.

Satanism is influenced by the Zen moral Nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand, likewise paradoxically altruistic in striving to influence and help others to better realign their priorities, shed the snares of altruism so often stifling to individual human potential, look after themselves and grow.

But there is worse, because the eclectic dilettante grab-bag Satanism is nevertheless hypocritical and dark in concept, even accepting the aforesaid premi. First and foremost, Satanism partakes in the ongoing distortion of Nietzschian Individualism, by befouling Hedonism into the very debauched corruption all along inputted thereto by Moralistic Christian precepts wherein: Debauchery, wanton self-indulgence self unrestrained by conventional inhibition or even by compassion and sound judgment at all, can denote even orgiastic seduction or can further indicate the erosion and debasement of morality or purity, as if all the aforesaid where one and the same unworthy of the trouble in distinction: To debauch meaning not only to corrupt moraly but most specifically by agency of intemperance or sensuality, in order thereby to lead away from virtue or excellence. Whereas Hedonism in its own right need not intrinsically extol cruelty, even in pursuit of pleasure. After all, shared pleasure may even be entirely companionable, actually inspirational of gratitude, charity and hope.

Nietzsche however, for the sake of individualist values extolled beyond good and evil, equally rejects both persecution and altruism as worldly snares to be rejected and avoided by the superman, the true individualist and latter day Zen Master, Satanism preaches spiteful judgment upon the intrinsic merit and worth of others, unmediated by any thirst for justice and equality. The debauchery that is Satanism extols revenge as merely another Hedonistic heady sensual indulgence and endorses Sadomasochism. Indeed, Anton LaVey's puerile and facile Satanist Sophistry and Apologetics for Sadomasochism, bald facedly equates predation and baiting with courtship between informed and desiring individuals. Of course, even as distinct from ever popular kinky erotic role-play of bondage and dominance fantasy, likewise even the most dangerous and demeaning hardcore edge-play is supposed to rely upon explicit permissions of Faustian contract replete with the panic-button of safe-words in order to remain at all within bounds. But then, increasingly there are those who complain and demand greater spontaneity, as indeed may be sought for in the escapism from responsibility of frenzied Panic magic ritual. And of course, all manner of darkest occult abomination is ancient, even replete with organized crime cults for deeply religious criminals.

It all begs Mulder's salient admonition: "How can you invite the Devil and expect him to behave?"" The X-Files: 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'

In summation, whereas ever proselytizing religion and Zen Mysticism alike, antirationally urge self abnegation as key to salvation, Satanism in the eager embrace of damnation, has done them all one better in perhaps the very ultimate in hypocrisy, the demeaning extol of exhalation via the most bestial reciprocal degradation.

Furthermore Satanism, in apparent contradiction with espoused individualism and instead somewhat wishful aspiration to conspiracy, therefore also elevates worldly prestige and authority in their own church membership hexarchy.

Nevertheless, let's all be thankful how, by in large, the Satanists seem to be all such a bunch of New Age posers taking delight in scandalizing Christian Fundamentalists. For whereas the Nazis where the only villains to actually dress the part, all said, the greater part of Satanism seemingly remains more often merely silly and trendy, if at all fanatically religious, than actually otherwise all that evil, except as ever taken up in self validation by only the most singularly twisted souls, evil doers to begin with and adolescent sociopaths at that. The persecution of Satanists by deluded fanatical Christian Fundamentalists abusing secular powers of the state and law enforcement, the hysteria over mythical Pedophile daycare centers and global Satanic conspiracy, was a deplorable destructive hysteria of lunatic Fundamentalist witch-hunting, a joyless and chaste debauchery, even while actual Pedophile priests continue to be sheltered by the church even after so many thousands of years.

Therefore sink not into evil simply from despair with worldliness in the human heart. Innocence is so often and vastly overrated. Mourn not the he loss of innocence, the mythic fall from Eden. Little as we do actually know, can it truly be the Higher Ways of Truth Ever Unfolding, that humanity is simply better off kept in the dark? Or is innocence indeed but the seedbed for growth in at all better sagacity? Indeed, by contrast, to the Fall from Eden, the legend of Prometheus finds humanity not in any Garden Paradise, but miserable, grubby, dank and cold. By the theft from the gods and gift to humanity, of fire, Prometheus symbolically liberates humanity from helpless ignorance, delivering redemption from heteronymously overrated innocence. The fire is a more positive symbol than the apple, for the dawning of the Transactional rational adult ego state from which rational interpretation and perception of reality, consciousness of past and future and hence scenario planningwith purposeful strategy, even meaning and questioning, all ensue, opening the way to uncertainty, freedom and responsible autonomy, without sainthood in specific any more than infallible impossible and unnecessary complete certainty in general. Faliblism offers hope that is not utterly unreasonable, pride that need not be vainglory, and perhaps even perspective at all of humility, or more precisely, merely of moderation and proportion, but without call to demeaning mortification. The loss of innocence does not inflict impossible and unnecessary demands for purity and perfection, but only the need of fair and even minimal responsibility in light of reasonably foreseeable consequences. That is how faliblism vastly reduces Existential anxieties. It is from faliblism that there is everything real to gain. Otherwise, many people become so tough on themselves as then to lose hope completely as imperfect human beings.