As I told the other guy: not actually a religion, it’s a protest group using the legal protections of religion in the United States to fight Christian overreach.
I know because I’m part of a TST congregation. We have ministers, we have rituals, we have holidays. We have tax-exempt status like any other church. If you ask anybody in my congregation, they’ll say the same thing: our religion is Satanism and TST is our church.
I was Buddhist for awhile, but I could never get meditation to actually work. People think Buddhism’s just atheism with breathing exercises. Naw there’s an entire cosmology with Gods and being reincarnated as Ghosts, and shit. It all boiled down to “Maybe the universe will reward me if I meditate enough.”
Was New Age for awhile too, but same problem… “Maybe I’ll develop powers if I stay open minded enough”
You can be religious without magical thinking.
Give an example.
The Satanic Temple.
As I told the other guy: not actually a religion, it’s a protest group using the legal protections of religion in the United States to fight Christian overreach.
I know because I’m part of a TST congregation. We have ministers, we have rituals, we have holidays. We have tax-exempt status like any other church. If you ask anybody in my congregation, they’ll say the same thing: our religion is Satanism and TST is our church.
No you can’t, because all religion is is “Maybe God will reward me if I starve myself.”
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it is not a physical reward that we fast, it is show that our spirit has control over our body, not the other way around
Buddhism? Satanism? Wicca? Any flavor of paganism?
I was Buddhist for awhile, but I could never get meditation to actually work. People think Buddhism’s just atheism with breathing exercises. Naw there’s an entire cosmology with Gods and being reincarnated as Ghosts, and shit. It all boiled down to “Maybe the universe will reward me if I meditate enough.”
Was New Age for awhile too, but same problem… “Maybe I’ll develop powers if I stay open minded enough”
It’s all bullshit, all faiths