21-08-2013, 10:46 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:I understand Satanism is a self-centric philosophy. As such, it is not given to "cults" since Satanists posit the primacy of their own free will. How can one follow a "cult leader" when one's own free will is paramount?
The Church of Satan. The Temple of Set.
Both cults. Both with cult leaders.
Guilt-by-association smear. Please explain how one places one's own free-will as the engine of one's being and still follow a cult leader.
How does that work?
Quote:Colonel Michael Aquino's Temple of Set even had degrees of initiation modelled after masonic levels.
Satanic Panic bullshit. Who cares about Michael Aquino? Hitler this, Aquino that, a Klansman here, and a Neo-Nazi there...All guilt-by-association smears.
Same bullshit with Zappa and Morrison et al...Smear after smear with no basis...
Quote:The Great Beast Crowley proclaimed "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", but fundamentally this "self-centric" freedom was for Crowley alone.
Really? How do you figure?
My comments refer to Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan. Please show me in the 11 Rules of Satanism the foundation for a "cult."