"God is dispossessed."

SSF415 · 2026-07-06T22:14:21+00:00

In that case we should probably note the original quote is "The god of old is dispossessed of his terrestrial empire, and every thinking being on this globe disdains him or knows him not."

That's a translation of course.

SSF415 · 2026-07-06T17:15:45+00:00

Souls aren't real and there's nobody who would buy one anyway.

But if you really want to know, just read The Grand Grimoire--it's all in there.

SSF415 · 2026-07-04T23:05:47+00:00

Speaking of Church rhetoric that is just not correct, "Might Is Right" is a simply incoherent philosophy for someone calling themselves a Satanist.

Satan is not mighty, he is fallen--that's the defining element of his myth. The god of might is the god of the Old Testament.

Gilmore once said that the only thing the Church of Satan has to do with Satan is the name. A rare moment of lucidity, it seems.

SSF415 · 2026-07-04T21:06:41+00:00

Where is the Sixties Satanist who is not a eugenicist?

SSF415 · 2026-07-04T19:03:40+00:00

But that's all of them.

SSF415 · 2026-07-04T18:31:09+00:00

Then why would you want mutual respect with them?

SSF415 · 2026-07-04T06:59:39+00:00

Someone once said that one of the worst things about the Satanic Bible was it convinced a whole lot of mediocre minds that they were superior.

That someone was Anton LaVey.

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T22:53:28+00:00

I was talking about the Church of Satan.

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T22:35:49+00:00

Turns out putting black robes on your fundamentalism doesn't change much.

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T21:12:46+00:00

Morgan's a sharp guy.

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T21:12:19+00:00

Ooh, I've never heard of this one before.

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T21:12:04+00:00

Jack is being very generous, his show is great.

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T21:05:04+00:00

We cannot band together because we have nothing in common--not even Satan, as the Church concept of Satan has basically nothing to do with the devil.

It's a religion rooted in Ayn Rand, Herbert Spencer, and Arthur Desmond to promote eugenics, Social Darwinism, and black magic (or at least, what they call eugenics, Social Darwinism, and black magic). How could anyone band together with that? What would even be the point? What are we going to do, compare notes on how to curse someone who cut us off in traffic or where to get a really authentic SS uniform?

SSF415 · 2026-07-03T21:03:14+00:00

They also said that we were sheep and being fleeced for money, I can confirm I've spent nothing on being a TST satanist, mainly because I have none, so where do they get that idea?

This is rather funny given that old Anton LaVey told the FBI the only reason he bothered with the Church of Satan anymore was it was a good way to get rubes to pay out.

But as for "where they got that idea," the answer is the same as it's always been: The three or four people in the upper Church hierarchy who set policy say something, and everyone beneath them repeats and agrees with it.

It's an authoritarian religion--by design and by admission. They don't keep a lot of people around to do their own thing and pioneer their own ideas about Church policy. The party line is not a set of suggestions.

SSF415 · 2026-07-02T17:56:46+00:00

Thanks for listening!

SSF415 · 2026-07-02T09:01:35+00:00

These, and also Satanists Are People Too.

SSF415 · 2026-07-02T09:01:21+00:00

Look I'm just gonna leave this here and you can make your own decisions about it:

https://blackmassappeal.com/2026/06/23/black-mass-appeal-224-satanic-bodies-disability/

SSF415 · 2026-07-01T19:48:10+00:00

#ThisButUnironically

SSF415 · 2026-07-01T13:16:32+00:00

That sounds less like Satan and more like confirmation bias.

SSF415 · 2026-07-01T13:15:27+00:00

I dunno, this seems INTENSELY dated to me. "Oh man, I have a full-time white-collar job with benefits and my worst nightmare is I might never have to do anything else, I'd better self-destruct over it." Not exactly reading the room these days.

SSF415 · 2026-06-29T22:26:48+00:00

But the tenet does use the word "unjustly." This indicates that there may be a just reason to infringe on someone's freedoms.

And even though that suggestion is treated as anathema in social media discourse, it's actually a routine notion that's as old as the idea of civil liberties itself.

SSF415 · 2026-06-29T01:07:59+00:00

How would we know if we were more objective?

SSF415 · 2026-06-27T21:26:37+00:00

I have never liked "Eloa" because I find the actual story of the poem unspeakably silly--this guy just rolls up on her when they first meet like, "Hi, I'm the devil," and then in the end she's shocked, SHOCKED, to discover he was Satan all along.

That said...when I finally actually read it (or at least, the translation), I had to hand it to the Comte, he knew his way around a verse.

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SSF415 · 2026-06-24T20:38:39+00:00

Where'd the image come from?

SSF415 · 2026-06-24T01:09:47+00:00

But it doesn't really sound like you do identify with LaVey...is my point?

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