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I think most of the Devil/Hell stuff is religious propaganda trying to scare people into showing up every week, putting money in the plate and trying to be a good person.

 

I mostly look at the difference between good and bad,  Jesus and the Devil

as selflessness vs. selfishness.

 

Jesus was all about doing good and helping people,

the Devil wasn't so much about doing good things, just helping yourself at the expense of others.

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20 mins ago, fish'nmagician said:

I think most of the Devil/Hell stuff is religious propaganda trying to scare people into showing up every week, putting money in the plate and trying to be a good person.

 

I mostly look at the difference between good and bad,  Jesus and the Devil

as selflessness vs. selfishness.

 

Jesus was all about doing good and helping people,

the Devil wasn't so much about doing good things, just helping yourself at the expense of others.

 

:huh:

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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25 mins ago, fishinambition said:

Satanism is self worship.

That's a nice boiled down version of what I wanted to say.

 

I don't view it as people who act gratuitously evil, 

I see it more as someone who would do great harm to someone else, if it benefited themselves even slightly.

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1 min ago, saltydawg said:

Only if you believe the “rules and tenets” were derived from a deity. Most—if not all—are the creations of man. 

I don't see how that matters.

if you need religion and it's rules to give you core values it applies to your statement.

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1 min ago, fish'nmagician said:

I don't see how that matters.

if you need religion and it's rules to give you core values it applies to your statement.

But religions are certainly not the only places that supply people and rules to live by, and even the religious ones are man-made. Boy Scouts, Kiwanis Club, the Red Cross, etc. 

 

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1 hour ago, fish'nmagician said:

what part do you "require" me to explain to you?

 

Satan is real or not real?

 

It sounds like your saying yes he's real after saying he's propaganda? 

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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8 mins ago, RiverRaider said:

 

Satan is real or not real?

 

It sounds like your saying yes he's real after saying he's propaganda? 

Satan is not real,

 

most Christians don't really understand what is in the bible,

most of the heaven and hell stuff that people talk about has no basis in the bible.

 

but if Satan is a cautionary tale,

I am just expressing my take away of what it actually means.

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