Poll: who do you worship?

crimson089and also this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Satan

Peter H. Gilmore is one dude representing the "Church of Satan," which is like saying the Pope represents everyone who worships God, which obviously isn't the case. Satanism has many different sects, one being "Atheistic Satanism" so in answer to your question "i don't understand why some atheists said they don't believe on the extraordinary, but why would they believe demons and satan" a) the majority of atheists aren't satanists (for crying out loud) and b) right in the satanism article it explains:

Atheistic Satanists consider themselves atheists, agnostics, or apatheists and regard Satan as merely symbolic of certain human traits. This categorization of Satanism (which could be categorized in other ways, for example "Traditional" versus "Modern"), is not necessarily adopted by Satanists themselves, who usually would not specify which type of Satanism they adhere to. Some Satanists believe in God in the sense of a Prime Mover but, like Atheistic Satanists, still worship themselves, due to the deist belief that God plays no part in mortal lives

hopefully that clears things up a little.

Replying to #101

i did said satanism began with atheism and was wondering why some of them (obviously not majority) would believe such things like satan. and as i said some, i am including that Peter guy and my question came out of his saying satanism began with atheism. even if he does or doesn't worship satan, that dude still represents the cult and his ideas influence the group. if they're just regarding satan as a symbol and telling there's no God nor Devil, then why would they call themselves satanists, and their church as 'church of satan', and their bible as satanic bible. i don't know anything about the different sects of satanism, atheistic satanists, apatheists, or any other names you'd like to call it, and i don't want to know anything about them. they're all just names, why would they pick satan to establish a religion of their own, they could have called their group as spongebobism, they must love satan that much? anyway, i'm using the words 'why' but i don't need answers, i guess you're right that you cleared things up a little.

Replying to #102

I think I see what you mean..and lol spongebobism....
edit:
I don't think she means that all atheist are devil worshipers...
She is saying (i think) that all, if not most, satanic people, don't believe in god, only in their 'god of destruction'.
So there are roots connecting atheism to satanic cults.
There are different satanic cults... some believe in a war against good and evil, some only believe that evil rules us all etc....

ricapicaif you believe in God then you're either christian, islam, or jewish.

You cannot be islam. Islam is the name of the religion, Muslim is the name given to followers of the religion named Islam.

ricapicaif you believe in God then you're either Jewish, Christian or a Muslim

Corrected the order there.Also, Ancient Babylonian beliefs were the basis for Judaism :)

Babylonian beleifs --> Judaism --> Other Major World Religionsthere, my whole 3 years of religious studies, summed up in one statement :P

Replying to #106

Fail :PHinduism didn't come from Judaism & is equally older than it is.Daoism, Buddhism & Shintoism came from the east :PBefore Greek/Roman beliefs died & merely became mythology they were themselves a religion that developed not from Babylon.And what of Voodooism & other Pagan Beliefs?

Christian
16 (28.6%)Athiest/Agnostic
15 (26.8%) most popular

Voodooism is not a paganistic worship. Those who practice voodoo believe in God but other things as well.

Replying to #109

actually voodoo is a religion in of itself. It is primarily practiced in haiti.

Officially speaking, I'm listed as a Pastafarian in the last census.I'm not even kidding, either.

SuiseisekiOfficially speaking, I'm listed as a rastafarian in the last census.I'm not even kidding, either.

i thought change the variety or foods you ate not a real religion?

Replying to #112

nope, pastafarians worship the flying spaghetti monster.

Replying to #113

Well, that would be the first time I had god with cheese on Saturday night.
Is that blasphemous if I ate their god?

Replying to #114

yep you will be hung from noodles

Loonylion · #113nope, pastafarians worship the flying spaghetti monster.

LOL!So that "religion" was brought about by an episode of South Park then, the Go God Go! two parter? Or was Pastafarianism around longer?

Replying to #116

It was around before.

Atheist here! :D

ever heard of scientology?
WACKYthe funny thing is, it has just as much solid evidence as Christianity...hmm...

Christian and atheist are pretty close together.