Feedback on Church of Azazel Pt. 1
Here are some comments on Diane Vera’s, Our core beliefs and Their Here-and-Now Basis
In this area, the Satanic paradigm is superior and contrasts with the religions which are resistant to change.
Here is where the current conceptions of Christianity and Islam part company on the ideas of new and independent thought. Both ignore the fact that each of their religions and ideas about god and man were the product of new and independent thought in its time. Both were considered a new cult upon their inception. They forget that even though they claim that their new, written revelations came from god, humans had to receive, process and interpret them through the mind. Even if they rationalize this by saying that they received god’s thoughts, the reception and interpretation still relies upon the mind of humans. Because of this almost blindness to facts, schisms cause a split in the church body, dividing into another sect due only because a new thoughts occur on the interpretation of scripture and its focus of application. In the new and old church, this frequently produces the byproduct of both denouncing the other as wrong and against the religion that produced them both.
Diane reminded me, and I agree with her that this same rejection of new thought causes the same type of division and demonizing of other sects in Satanism that this creates in Christianity.
So who is right and who is wrong? Can there be a criteria for deciding this? I believe there is. A religion or church that becomes so hidebound that it cannot tolerate or withstand new thought is on its way to becoming either a dinosaur or a dictatorship.The major problem I see is when such a religion becomes widespread and manifests as a major social and political force which endeavors to turn our government into a theocracy or at the least to cause lawmaking to be influenced by their limited sense of morality and “truth”. Read the rest of this entry »
