If you really knew satan and there’s any good in you at all, you’ll detest your comparison to him…
Chozo@fedia.io 3 days ago
As a Satanist, I detest the comparison to AI.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Chozo@fedia.io 3 days ago
Satan represents rebellion against arbitrary, self-appointed authority. Satan defied God's law to bring the gift of knowledge to humanity, hence the name "Light Bringer", or "Lucifer" in Latin. Satan doesn't reside in Hell because he is evil, he resides in Hell because he was banished, as punishment from the highest autocrat for trying to set humanity free from eternal servitude. Satan was never the enemy of Man; he was the first angel to treat humanity with dignity instead of as an experiment, or a pet to be dragged on a leash.
If you don't see yourself in Satan, then I have to wonder what you're doing with your life.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Rebellion to arbitrary authority and servitude to a God who tells us arbitrary rules like “love your neighbour” and “give to the poor” and “you shall not murder” “you shall not commit adultery” “you shall not steal”, etc…
Yeah bro that rebellion is nothing to be proud of
Chozo@fedia.io 2 days ago
What makes you think those are mutually exclusive concepts? I already do all those things without God. Except I do those because I choose to, not because I was ordered to. Also keep in mind that the commandments came out WAY after the Garden of Eden, anyway.
But let's also not pretend that God's rules are all great, either. If the guy who enacted a worldwide genocide and commands fathers to kill their sons is your moral compass, then maybe you should consider that the characters in these stories aren't 100% "good" or "evil" to begin with.
The world isn't black and white. Embrace the grey.
4am@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
lol like you know a damn thing about any fictional characters
“You can’t say you like Satan! He’s the BAD GUY!”
Go watch paw patrol you toddler
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
fictional characters
Denying the existence of satan is definitely something satan would do.
4am@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
How perfectly convenient for your worldview
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me reading this while watching Paw Patrol with my youngest child: Uhmm, hey, why don’t we watch some Octonauts for a while?
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’ll take a follower of The Satanic Temple over a Christian any day of the week
IronBird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
yup, especially if their any brand of protestant or catholic (except maybe the german catholic church…who i think is schismed in all but name now, for…accepting gay/woman/trans people as equals?).
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Meanwhile God is the one murdering and torturing people
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Punishing sin*
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Neither one of them is real, let’s not lose sight of that.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d imagine satanists would loathe ai now that you mention it. It’s taking away intelligence and agency and so on. I would think a Satanist would love making art because it’s an expression of the self and see AI as a theft from that.