My favorite response to such attitudes runs something like "by equating the
new knowledge with hersey, you make orthodoxy and ignorance synomous." I
can't remember where I saw it first.
> Science has proved that ideas that are sometimes
> classed as "crazy" have now been accepted as fact.
Why, God even plays DICE with the universe!!!
> I'm not saying that all of "In praise of Lucifer" is true,
> in fact I don't belive a lot of it but maybe through reading
> and discussion of things like this we can reach a better
> understanding of religion and ourselves.
Satanists are an interesting bunch -- I heard somewhere (here?) that true
satanists actually don't believe in the devil, but rather use him as a
metaphore for entropy -- which they define as the tendancy of the universe
towards disorder. In this way, they make the common claim that "the devil
is at work in the world" into a TRUE statement!
In my own wanderings, I've certainly decided that reaching a better
understanding of religion *necessarily* implies reaching a better
understanding of ourselves. Mankind is not a rational animal -- although I
would assert that in our better moments, we are. It's the non-rational
element of humanity that powers all of literature, and all of religion.
(just imagine how boring the world would be without irrationalities!)
ERiC