s a g e But seriously: Satanists? The least you could do is make up your own religion. You didn't have to take the Christians' entire religion and flip it around just so you could call it your own. Really. Man. Be original or something.
The mental architecture of all religions is suspect. I prefer the wilder speculative vein of postmodern Chaos Magicians, who hold -- if I may summate -- that the general efficacy of the focused mind is a valid tool for parapsychological manipulation of reality. But at the same time, they reject any formal "god" or "spirit" that needs to be worshipped. But unlike Crowley and the esoteric magicians (including Yeats, the Golden Dawn, and Hubbard the eventual founder of Scientology), they also refuse to worship their own magician ego. They know themselves to be nothing but fool mortals.
So what to worship? What focus for the power?
One answer is a tongue-in-cheek worship of knowingly fictional deities -- deities which have no car-bomb, gun-toting, meme-ridden maniac followers -- for these are the cleanest gods of all.
Great Cthulhu is the epitome of a useful god when a real god won't do. He is far more awesome than any shoddy, second-rate historical deity, and has a ready-made ouvre of books, games, music, and symbology.
And best of all, he has shown no actual sign of rising from the black pits of the sea.
 [PrInCeSs RaVeN] · Sat May 05, 2007 @ 08:36am · 1 Comments |
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