NaiveTempest
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Joined: 11/20/2006 From: North Carolina Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: EvilGenie Most people on this site aren't anything as we are all individuals. Also those who live an alternative lifestyle is not the same as a fetish. My life happens not to be a fetish. Satan, or the concept of a ''beast'', is NOT a Christian concept. Eons before all 3 of the large monothestic religions were a twinkle in someone's eye mankind carried a belief that there was ''something'' evil out to take away the sun and mankind. After that came the concept of the ''something'' evil being out to destroy the Gods and mankind, making it rain, setting fires in the forest, causing the general occasional havoc. Then along came Judiasm followed by Christianity and Islam. The ''something'' evil was then given a name and a history. Dante's Inferno is where we first see the concept of what Satan and hell are supposed (as in suppos-ed if you can get the difference in word meanings with the same word) to be; also a work of fiction by the way. Dante was not a Prophet but a writer. Why I wasted the pixels here I am not sure because I still believe that you're talking out of your arse. On such a ridiculous question I see no need to state my religon though Satanism it is not. There is the idea that to give evil a name is to invite it to your door. While "evil" is not a Christian concept, Satan is. If you were Egyptian it would be Seth (or Set), if you were Mayan it would be maybe Ah Puch (Death God) or Ixtab (Suicide Goddess). But, even in the religious belief of these cultures I do not believe (IMHO) that these "dark" god/dess were considered evil. They were just the other side of the balance. For light there must be dark, for order there must be chaos, for life there must be death, etc... But, Satan, on the other hand, is seen as the personification of evil, true maliciousness without cause, reason, or balance (unless it would be jealousy?). That is a Christian view. As stated in an earlier post, not even Jews see Satan as thus. Of course all of this is just my opinion, I'm sure others may see it differently.
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