Satanists

Satanist hate 'em or love 'em but they are all around. What is a satanist? Well back in the fourteenth century a pope declared that all Pagans were to be satanists. Flash to the 21st century an on going sustaining revival of the Pagan religion.

What are the Satanists to do? Well back in the 1960's when all things looked possible and The Pagan religion was mostly either Wicca, Hindu, or a small but growing other Pagan religions.
The satanists must have been amused. How long have they been fighting or at least pissing the christain church off? Years at least, centuries at best. Now comes a folk who had been around in one form or another suddenly finding that people were honestly curious and wanting to know about the Gods before there was christianity, islam, or even judaism.

But ahh these good people were just trying to gain acceptance as a legal legitimate religion. As the years went by the movement has grown. Legitimized in courts as a legal religion in just about the world around. But what about the satanists? hmm?

These rebels from the christian church have sought to gain acceptance in to the pagan religion. Yes they like to think they are pagans, but are they?

My answer is no. No because they are in reality christians in rebellion. Their cause is different from the Pagan cause. Pagans are beginning to be recognized as standing with the major religions of the world. Is it really necessary to accept satanists in to the fold? After all what should satanist be working towards.

My thought would be to gain an acceptance? into the christain church. The UU would possibly take them in. Though I would push that we accept them as satanists and not as pagan.

I do wonder how the more conservative even the liberal churches as a whole would look on that.

How would the christain church, as a whole, transform itself as the rebels bring their point of views to the body? For some christians this would be unthinkable, perhaps even to a majority. However christianity with it adherence to only the light would suddenly have to recognize the darker side of their religion. How would the christain church adjust to all this? It does make one wonder.

Pagans worships the Gods and Goddesses. A satanist is a christain in rebellion.

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