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The Satanists I've met have all been remarkably fluent in the English language. They were polite and even pretty cool. You should probably look into it, it might suit you. It's not about worshiping Satan at all, as I understand it. It's about rejecting any god-head based mode of thinking which subjugates your own personal thoughts and desires as inferior. I mean, they're people, so some of them are probably batshit.
I hear there are plenty of Scientologists living right here in the USA. I hear Tom Cruise is even one of them. He's no icon of sanity, but he's at least able to be not batshit often enough and long enough to have established a nice Hollywood career. That L. Ron guy wrote some really good sci-fi.
I don't really have any thoughts or concerns about people I've never met committing suicide. I was probably closer to suicide than I'd care to discuss at multiple times in my life over less than a comet.
All religion is bullshit, IMO. No argument there.
Where it becomes bigotry is where you use your disfavor for a religion to justify your arguments that categorically label all Muslims as supporters of Sharia, or the oppression of women, or baby raping, or whatever fear you latch onto at the moment. Not all Muslims believe the same things just like not all Christians believe the same things.
It's not your hostility toward religion that is bigotry. It's your lazy hating on people you haven't met. Not all Muslims want to oppress women. Not all Muslims want to impose Sharia on non-Muslims whom are not themselves choosing to follow those laws.
Look, you could meet 50 Muslims and hate all 50 of them. You can tell me you hate them all day and I'll never accuse you of being prejudiced. But the moment the 51st Muslim walks in and you treat them like you already know them, that's where I draw the line.
Have you even met 50 Muslims? Spoken to them and gotten to know them? Treated them with respect and seen how they treated you in return?
Maybe try that.
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Originally Posted by wufwugy
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