{"tag":"satan","articles":{"blog\/mythology\/hail-satan":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/hail-satan","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2019-09-18T18:34:22+02:00","publishedAt":"2020-03-01T18:16:00+01:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"hail-satan"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"hail-satan","title":"Hail Satan \ud83e\udd18","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Hail Satan ?\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022300\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Hail Satan ?\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022300\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy Twitter bio includes the words \u201cHail Satan \ud83e\udd18\u201c.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExcept I don\u0027t believe in Satan (nor in his evil enemy, Jahwe)...\nSo why the hell the did I put put it there?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_big.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Hail Satan ?\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022800\u0022 height=\u0022500\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_big.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Hail Satan ?\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022800\u0022 height=\u0022500\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy Twitter bio includes the words \u201cHail Satan \ud83e\udd18\u201c.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExcept I don\u0027t believe in Satan (nor in his evil enemy, Jahwe)...\nSo why the hell the did I put put it there?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, first of all: Satanists don\u0027t believe in Satan.\nJust read their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.churchofsatan.com\/faq-fundamental-beliefs\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E FAQ\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022blockquote ml-4 pl-4 border-left\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESatan to us is a symbol of pride, liberty and individualism, and it serves as an external metaphorical projection of our highest personal potential. We do not believe in Satan as a being or person.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYup, a symbol. They chose this one, because it\u0027s controversial, that\u0027s all it is \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut that being said \u2013 I\u0027m not even a Satanist. I do agree with most of their philosophy (and despise some parts of it),\nI own a copy of \u201cThe Satanic Bible\u201d by LaVey (and I find it unbearably boring),\nand I follow their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchofSatan\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Twitter account\u003C\/a\u003E (it\u0027s smart and hilarious!).\nBut that\u0027s pretty much it.\nI\u0027ve never visited any temple, never witnessed any ritual, didn\u0027t bother to become a member,\nand in my daily life I don\u0027t really bother thinking about Satanism too often.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUntil, that is, a random Christian sees something I wrote online,\nchecks out my bio to find an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/yourlogicalfallacyis.com\/ad-hominem\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E ad hominem\u003C\/a\u003E to use,\nand replies with something along the lines of \u201cyeah, but you worship Satan, so what do even know?! \ud83e\udd21\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd that\u0027s the point: \u003Cem\u003EI don\u0027t believe in Satan, but I know that this person does.\nAnd they are scared of him.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027ve spent too many years of my life suffering because of their mythology \u2013\nnot being able to be myself or do things I wanted to do \u2013 just because I had been indoctrinated\ninto being scared shitless of some horned imp with a pitchfork.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI say \u201cHail Satan\u201d not because I actually praise a nonexistent character from a horror book,\nbut \u003Cem\u003Eto show Christians that I\u0027m not afraid of their imaginary enemy\u003C\/em\u003E.\nThose two words represent \u003Cem\u003Emy victory in the fight for liberation of my mind from their indoctrination\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI say \u201cHail Satan\u201d just because I\u0027m \u003Cem\u003Eproud\u003C\/em\u003E of the fact that I\u0027m \u003Cem\u003Enot afraid\u003C\/em\u003E to say it anymore.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOh, and there\u0027s one more thing: if you read the Bible, you\u0027ll find out that Jahwe is actually the bad guy in this story...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022blockquote ml-4 pl-4 border-left\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction:\njealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive,\nbloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal,\nfilicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.\n\u003Cem\u003E(Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo on the off chance that the Christian mythology is actually true (it\u0027s not, let\u0027s not kid ourselves \ud83d\ude44),\nI\u0027d rather make sure that I won\u0027t end up in the\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IPD1YGghtDk\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Celestial North Korea\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECall it a \u201cReversed \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/przegrany-zak%C5%82ad-pascala\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Pascal\u0027s wager\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d, if you will \ud83d\ude09\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["christians","hell","satan","satanism"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_small.png","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_big.png\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_mini.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Hail Satan ?\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022150\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy Twitter bio includes the words \u201cHail Satan \ud83e\udd18\u201c.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExcept I don\u0027t believe in Satan (nor in his evil enemy, Jahwe)...\nSo why the hell the did I put put it there?\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_big.png\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hail-satan_mini.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Hail Satan ?\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022150\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy Twitter bio includes the words \u201cHail Satan \ud83e\udd18\u201c.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EExcept I don\u0027t believe in Satan (nor in his evil enemy, Jahwe)...\nSo why the hell the did I put put it there?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, first of all: Satanists don\u0027t believe in Satan.\nJust read their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.churchofsatan.com\/faq-fundamental-beliefs\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E FAQ\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESatan to us is a symbol of pride, liberty and individualism, and it serves as an external metaphorical projection of our highest personal potential. We do not believe in Satan as a being or person.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYup, a symbol. They chose this one, because it\u0027s controversial, that\u0027s all it is \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut that being said \u2013 I\u0027m not even a Satanist. I do agree with most of their philosophy (and despise some parts of it),\nI own a copy of \u201cThe Satanic Bible\u201d by LaVey (and I find it unbearably boring),\nand I follow their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchofSatan\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Twitter account\u003C\/a\u003E (it\u0027s smart and hilarious!).\nBut that\u0027s pretty much it.\nI\u0027ve never visited any temple, never witnessed any ritual, didn\u0027t bother to become a member,\nand in my daily life I don\u0027t really bother thinking about Satanism too often.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUntil, that is, a random Christian sees something I wrote online,\nchecks out my bio to find an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/yourlogicalfallacyis.com\/ad-hominem\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E ad hominem\u003C\/a\u003E to use,\nand replies with something along the lines of \u201cyeah, but you worship Satan, so what do even know?! \ud83e\udd21\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd that\u0027s the point: \u003Cem\u003EI don\u0027t believe in Satan, but I know that this person does.\nAnd they are scared of him.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027ve spent too many years of my life suffering because of their mythology \u2013\nnot being able to be myself or do things I wanted to do \u2013 just because I had been indoctrinated\ninto being scared shitless of some horned imp with a pitchfork.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI say \u201cHail Satan\u201d not because I actually praise a nonexistent character from a horror book,\nbut \u003Cem\u003Eto show Christians that I\u0027m not afraid of their imaginary enemy\u003C\/em\u003E.\nThose two words represent \u003Cem\u003Emy victory in the fight for liberation of my mind from their indoctrination\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI say \u201cHail Satan\u201d just because I\u0027m \u003Cem\u003Eproud\u003C\/em\u003E of the fact that I\u0027m \u003Cem\u003Enot afraid\u003C\/em\u003E to say it anymore.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOh, and there\u0027s one more thing: if you read the Bible, you\u0027ll find out that Jahwe is actually the bad guy in this story...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction:\njealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive,\nbloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal,\nfilicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.\n\u003Cem\u003E(Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo on the off chance that the Christian mythology is actually true (it\u0027s not, let\u0027s not kid ourselves \ud83d\ude44),\nI\u0027d rather make sure that I won\u0027t end up in the\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IPD1YGghtDk\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Celestial North Korea\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECall it a \u201cReversed \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/przegrany-zak%C5%82ad-pascala.lite\u0022\u003E Pascal\u0027s wager\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d, if you will \ud83d\ude09\u003C\/p\u003E","words":458,"readTime":2,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/biblical-satanism":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/biblical-satanism","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2018-09-21T11:54:23+02:00","publishedAt":"2018-09-21T11:54:00+02:00","group":"satan","category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"biblical-satanism"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"biblical-satanism","title":"Biblical Satanism","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EEver wondered, why does the biblical arch-enemy have such cool names? \u201cSatan\u201d means \u201cthe accuser\u201d. Is he accusing the God Almighty himself? What could he possibly have on that omnipotent, benevolent guy? \u201cLucifer\u201d means \u201clight-bringing\u201d. Does it mean he brings the humanity the knowledge, the enlightenment?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECould it be, that Satan is \u003Cem\u003Ethe good guy\u003C\/em\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EEver wondered, why does the biblical arch-enemy have such cool names? \u201cSatan\u201d means \u201cthe accuser\u201d. Is he accusing the God Almighty himself? What could he possibly have on that omnipotent, benevolent guy? \u201cLucifer\u201d means \u201clight-bringing\u201d. Does it mean he brings the humanity the knowledge, the enlightenment?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECould it be, that Satan is \u003Cem\u003Ethe good guy\u003C\/em\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u2019s start at the beginning: the Garden of Eden. God doesn\u2019t want humans to eat from a tree that would give them \u201cknowledge of good and evil\u201d. What\u2019s wrong about that knowledge? How can you expect humans to follow any moral standard, if they don\u2019t have such knowledge? It\u2019s Satan that sets the humanity free from the blind obedience and gives it the gift of knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, it\u2019s God who mixes up human languages and divides people out of sheer pettiness (Tower of Babel). It\u2019s God who sends a massive flood on Earth, brutally killing almost all of its population, including innocent children and animals \u2013 all so that evil could be eradicated, which it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s God, who demands from Abraham a human sacrifice from his own son. It\u2019s God who utterly destroys entire cities. It\u2019s God who sends his people to conquer, to destroy, to kill, to rape and to enslave.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s God, who punishes the disobedient with eternal suffering. It\u2019s God, who tortures Job and kills off his entire family, just to prove a point. It\u2019s God, who kills all the innocent newborns of Egypt, just because their Pharaoh did something wrong \u2013 and he didn\u2019t even want to do the wrong thing, but God has \u201chardened the Pharaoh heart\u201d, free will my ass. It\u2019s God who demands burnt animal offerings. It\u2019s God who commands inhumane laws that demand death by stoning for things like homosexuality or adultery.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s God, who sent his own son to be tortured and die a horrible, painful death, just so that he can forgive humanity for having created them so flawed (sic!) and so that sin can be eradicated (which, again, it isn\u2019t).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWant a full list of all the terrible things that God has done or commanded to be done throughout the Bible? Check out \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/skepticsannotatedbible.com\/cruelty\/long.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E The \u201cCruelty\u201d section of the \u201cSkeptic\u2019s Annotated Bible\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u2019s 1312 points!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo quote Richard Dawkins:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022blockquote ml-4 pl-4 border-left\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow: I believe neither in Santa Claus, nor in fairies, nor in God, nor in Satan. I can only describe them all as fictional characters. But if you\u2019re a person, who really believes that the Bible is a true account of the past and a valid description of the universe (it\u2019s not), then think about it:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBased on what the Bible tells you about those two characters, which one should you rather worship? That monster who commits countless atrocities, or a guy whose main \u201ccrime\u201d is opposing him, \u003Cem\u003Eaccusing\u003C\/em\u003E him, and \u003Cem\u003Ebringing enlightenment\u003C\/em\u003E to all the humanity?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["bible","cruelty","ethnic cleansing","lucifer","morality","satan","satanism"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EEver wondered, why does the biblical arch-enemy have such cool names? \u201cSatan\u201d means \u201cthe accuser\u201d. Is he accusing the God Almighty himself? What could he possibly have on that omnipotent, benevolent guy? \u201cLucifer\u201d means \u201clight-bringing\u201d. Does it mean he brings the humanity the knowledge, the enlightenment?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECould it be, that Satan is \u003Cem\u003Ethe good guy\u003C\/em\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EEver wondered, why does the biblical arch-enemy have such cool names? \u201cSatan\u201d means \u201cthe accuser\u201d. Is he accusing the God Almighty himself? What could he possibly have on that omnipotent, benevolent guy? \u201cLucifer\u201d means \u201clight-bringing\u201d. Does it mean he brings the humanity the knowledge, the enlightenment?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECould it be, that Satan is \u003Cem\u003Ethe good guy\u003C\/em\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u2019s start at the beginning: the Garden of Eden. God doesn\u2019t want humans to eat from a tree that would give them \u201cknowledge of good and evil\u201d. What\u2019s wrong about that knowledge? How can you expect humans to follow any moral standard, if they don\u2019t have such knowledge? It\u2019s Satan that sets the humanity free from the blind obedience and gives it the gift of knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, it\u2019s God who mixes up human languages and divides people out of sheer pettiness (Tower of Babel). It\u2019s God who sends a massive flood on Earth, brutally killing almost all of its population, including innocent children and animals \u2013 all so that evil could be eradicated, which it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s God, who demands from Abraham a human sacrifice from his own son. It\u2019s God who utterly destroys entire cities. It\u2019s God who sends his people to conquer, to destroy, to kill, to rape and to enslave.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s God, who punishes the disobedient with eternal suffering. It\u2019s God, who tortures Job and kills off his entire family, just to prove a point. It\u2019s God, who kills all the innocent newborns of Egypt, just because their Pharaoh did something wrong \u2013 and he didn\u2019t even want to do the wrong thing, but God has \u201chardened the Pharaoh heart\u201d, free will my ass. It\u2019s God who demands burnt animal offerings. It\u2019s God who commands inhumane laws that demand death by stoning for things like homosexuality or adultery.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s God, who sent his own son to be tortured and die a horrible, painful death, just so that he can forgive humanity for having created them so flawed (sic!) and so that sin can be eradicated (which, again, it isn\u2019t).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWant a full list of all the terrible things that God has done or commanded to be done throughout the Bible? Check out \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/skepticsannotatedbible.com\/cruelty\/long.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E The \u201cCruelty\u201d section of the \u201cSkeptic\u2019s Annotated Bible\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u2019s 1312 points!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo quote Richard Dawkins:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow: I believe neither in Santa Claus, nor in fairies, nor in God, nor in Satan. I can only describe them all as fictional characters. But if you\u2019re a person, who really believes that the Bible is a true account of the past and a valid description of the universe (it\u2019s not), then think about it:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBased on what the Bible tells you about those two characters, which one should you rather worship? That monster who commits countless atrocities, or a guy whose main \u201ccrime\u201d is opposing him, \u003Cem\u003Eaccusing\u003C\/em\u003E him, and \u003Cem\u003Ebringing enlightenment\u003C\/em\u003E to all the humanity?\u003C\/p\u003E","words":538,"readTime":3,"lang":"en"}}}}}