Why is there so much obsession with the occult and the macabre among young people nowadays?
Question by arcticwolf71960: Why is there so much obsession with the occult and the macabre among young people nowadays?
They delve into witchcraft and satanism. They watch horror movies (which are more violent than ever), and they visit websites that feature pictures of human corpses (accident victims with their entrails hanging out, decapitations, etc.) Many of them are into self-mutilation and even ponder
ways to commit suicide. There are little children in school who even play choking games for a cheap thrill. What's going on with people? Have they all gone mad?
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Answer by The Doors of Perception
Horror movies, chocking games, corpses, etc. have NOTHING to do with witchcraft. Neither does self mutilation. The body is a temple and is needed for magick therefore should not be harmed. Only one kind of Satanism I know of is like that and that is Joy of Satanism and similar poser pseudo satanism groups. Theses people are not real Satanists. Those occult practices are outdated just like the murder of witches and pagans commanded in the bible. It is out of date! If people practice it then they are not in the right state of mind.
Now there ARE less 'civilized' cultures out there especially in Africa that do plenty of self mutilation. These groups cannot be compared to the occultist of today however. They are practicing ancient rituals. Suicide is against ALL forms of witchcraft and Satanism. Satanism is either (more commonly) LaVeyan self worship or devotion to a god that the Church perverted into Satan. Either wway life is important. With witchcraft, you have to be alive to practice it, don't you.
Addition:
There are four kinds of Satanists. LaVeyan, Theistic/Spiritual, Devil worshipers, and pseudo satanist. If you are just trying to be cool, like you said, don't do it. There is no point to following a religion just to look cool.
LaVeyan Satanism
This is atheistic. They see Satan as a symbol. The the torah, "Satan" means the adversary. LaVeyan Satanism challenges the status quo. They do not believe Satan is an actual being. He is a symbol to them that represents different things.
1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!
2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!
3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!
4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!
5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!
6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!
7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,†has become the most vicious animal of all!
8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
9. Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!
The basic philosophies LaVey came up with is very good. But he was a power hungry, sell out fraud. Most of his 'history' about Satan is fake. Baphomet was NOT worshiped as Satan, the yezids do NOT worship Satan, and the Al-Jiwah is NOT the black book of Satan. Decent philosophy, scam religion.
Theistic/Spiritual Satanism is what Joy of Satan is but they are a bad example. They encourage Nazism and a self mutilation ritual to give your soul to Satan. Once again, most of their 'history' is false to make you believe more. In this case, the deity/deities being worshiped is not the Christian Satan. They believe the god is the true creator god. usually polytheistic, they believe either that the creator god was perverted into Satan or that Jehovah stole the true creator's credit. They use god's evil acts in the bible to show he is not who he claims to be.
Devil Worshipers are extremely rare. They worship the Christian Satan. They believe god is ALL forgiving and Satan is ruler of this world. So, they feel they have to please Satan. This can be done through self mutilation, vandalism, and in extreme rare cases even animal sacrifice. Nothing like Satanic Ritual Abuse though. Much more real. If they do not please Satan they fear they will go to hell.
Last, Pseudo Satanists are just posers. They have really no religious connection to any kind of Satanism. They just get off on trying to scare people with carving pentagrams into churches and stuff.
These are the facts. If you do not like what I have to say because the bible says it is evil or whatever then believe what you want.
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