Brief Thoughts On Satanism and Protesters

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My friend Philip from Southern California shared the following article with me via email.

 '‘Hail Satan!’: The new ‘pro-choice’ mantra LIFESITENEWS.COM - July 8, 2013'

Quotes

'In the war between life and death, all eyes are on Texas as the Lone Star State legislature is poised to pass a sweeping late-term abortion ban. Gov. Rick Perry has pledged to sign the bill into law. The lines have been clearly drawn surrounding this progress toward equality and civil rights for pre-born Americans. Not surprisingly, as the pro-abortion side loses legislative battle after legislative battle, its “true colors” are coming into focus. Those colors are darker than many might have imagined.'

And

'Although, our pro-abortion media will not likely give it much coverage, a similar such flashpoint of clarity occurred this past Tuesday in the Texas State House as pro-abortion activists, throughout the day, shouted “Hail Satan!” in an effort to drown out pro-life speeches and an impromptu rendering of “Amazing Grace.” CNN’s Josh Rubin confirmed this astonishing display by tweeting on site: “Crowd of anti-abortion activists giving speeches while a group of people chant hail Satan in the background.”'

My focus in this article is not primarily the abortion issue, although I will state that due to what I reason is reasonable medical and scientific evidence that humanity/human beings begin at conception I am opposed to abortion on demand.

In other words I would only philosophically support abortion as a rare life saving medical measure for the Mother or perhaps in the case of multiple babies. I will not claim to have medical education on the matter and therefore will not attempt to go into medical detail but will remain in the philosophical context.

The issue of humanity of the unborn does not seem to be the issue of philosophical debate, as often or as much as the issue of 'rights'.  In particular women's rights on the pro-choice side, and more balance on the pro-life side usually from what I hear and read with concern for rights for women and children.

I have discussed rights philosophically recently on both blogs which can be viewed in archives.

I support the rights of women and children.

But this would be obvious for frequent readers.

As well, I think the issue of whether or not there is a human spirit involved in an unborn child is not essential in the context of the debate, as in since scientifically a conceived zygote-embryo is fully human then the issue of a spirit's existence or not is only one aspect of humanity, although essential according to a Christian worldview separating human beings from all other physical earthly creatures.

Basically a decently rational humanistic view should understand a conceived zygote-embryo as fully human even without accepting the existence of the spirit. Full humanity even without full human development or personality.

My main focus of this article is the question of Satanism.

I remember several years listening to a tape, which I still own and transferred to mini-disc which Walter R. Martin discusses Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan. The understanding was that within this type of modern Satanism, 'Satan' was not believed to be real, but rather 'Satanism' was a form of humanism, a metaphorical form.

I ponder philosophically if some of the pro-choice protesters take this view of Satan and Satanism, or is it perhaps something more sinister.

I am admittedly not an expert on the occult and do not advertise myself as one in the blog headers or in my biography and this is a reason the post is brief, but as a philosopher and student of religion I have reasoned in my mind that over the thousands of years of recorded human history, that it seems quite unlikely that all Satanists were/are actually metaphorical humanists.

It seems quite unlikely that all organized groups of Satanists were/are actually metaphorical humanists or some other type of Satanists that worship/worshipped Satan and perhaps demons in a metaphorical sense.

I. Hexham mentions that in the modern world there many neopagan movements that are connected to witchcraft and even Satanism. Hexham (1996: 973).  Some are underground and some claim to be revivals of ancient Druidism, or Greek or Egyptian mystery religions.

In an organized context, not just in an individual basis, I reason it likely that in human history some persons have been and are foolish enough to worship a fallen angel in perhaps the hopes that he and his demons will one day overcome the God of the Bible. Or perhaps they reason that the final judgment of Revelation 20, the lake of fire, an everlasting hell for Satan, demonic beings, and those outside of Christ, is a reasonable resting place worth striving for. Perhaps they believe in Satan and his partners, but not the Bible and that somehow Satan is actually the most powerful finite god or the most powerful entity in existence and therefore is worth worshiping.

There are online rumours, which existed to some extent previously, in regard to Illuminati, that supposedly actually worship Satan and wish to bring in a one world government under the antichrist, but there must be more evidence of such an organization or organizations.

Note:

Zygote is a fertilized female gamete, the product of fusion of the nucleus of the ovum or ovule with the sperm or pollen grain. Oxford (2010: 889)

HEXHAM I. (1996) ‘Satanism and Witchcraft, in Walter A. Elwell (ed.), Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Books.

Oxford Dictionary of Science, (2010), Sixth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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