Path: typhoon.sonic.net!newsfeed2.skycache.com!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: THOTH Newsgroups: alt.satanism Subject: Re: Why I Don't Join the Church of Satan Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:43:32 GMT Organization: Deja.com Lines: 31 Message-ID: <93shf4$glv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <93nno6$vec$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.240.220.178 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Jan 14 15:43:32 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.0 WebTV/1.2 (compatible; MSIE 2.0) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x68.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 209.240.220.178 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDthoth_9 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.satanism:168109 Personally, I would consider joining the COS just to show some support for the organization that started it all, but I don't because of two words. PETER GILMORE. Every thing I have ever read that he's written makes poorly hidden references and insults at psudo-Satanic organizations. Satanists are the accusers of the right hand path, NOT the accusers of those that have similar philosophies and ethics as we do. I have yet to see any significant thing he has done to help the Satanic movement. He gives attention to the psudo-Satanists, which only makes them stronger. Ol' Doc LaVey never gave the psudo-Satanists any attention. If Gilmore and people like him don't stop these actions, eventually the numbers in the psudo-Satanic organizations will grow to the point that society will consider the psudo-Satanists the real Satanists. And real Satanism will be a dead religion.In article <93nno6$vec$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, rmerciless@my-deja.com wrote:> Why I Joined the Church of Satan> > I have occasionally been asked what someone gets when they join the> Church of Satan. My typical smart-assed answer is, “Not a goddamned> thing.” The stock answer most Church of Satan officials give is simply> that one’s membership is whatever you make of it. They are, of course,> absolutely correct but I would like to expand on it just a bit as far> as my own experience goes.> > The act of joining the Church of Satan was a magical act of> significance to me for highly personal reasons as a deliberate and> willfully symbolic act of transition and commitment. So, whatever> I "got out of it" was almost completely internal to me. It did not> open any doors. It did not win me any friends. It did not get me> invited to any secret meetings. I received no certificate "suitable> for framing" and no membership directory. Not even a t-shirt. Just a> small red card with a place for signature.> > But joining was an explicit act by which I cast my lot in with the> Devil. It was for me a necessary expr Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/