What is the truth about The Devil?

Gavmacp | 18:22 Tue 03rd Jan 2012 | Religion & Spirituality

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A much maligned character who may of just been misunderstood. Was he really as bad as people have made out?
I have not met him but I have heard he is quite hot!!

To Elderman, mymom and any other JW or JW like "organisation"

I am God's Newest Prophet

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I always love the way that some churches hate homosexuals. War fine, greed fine but homosexuality a definite NO!

birdie1971

^ Assuming that God exists, it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

birdie1971

Oops! My above post was for venator.

venator

OK Birdie, how can we test this hypothesis?

Devil worship doesn't look like a good alternative <]:-))

naomi24

I've been saying for years that the religious are worshipping the wrong bloke.

beso

Venator // likewise, many fun things are classified a sin, and we're told not to enjoy them.

Perhaps all theists have fallen for a whopping great PR job! //

Here you see the central trap of theistic philosophy. Pick something you know is enjoyable and make it a source of guilt. You will get most people because most people like these things.

Once the guilt is established the religion offers an escape clause.

"So long as you offer total obedience to me you are absolved of all responsibility and consequence for all deeds and thoughts for all of the past and all of the future."

Weekly Sunday sessions serve to instill the guilt and chrome-plate the idea of faith as an absolution.

birdie1971

Venator - “... Devil worship doesn't look like a good alternative...”

No probably not. I'm not sure I could worship the devil without bursting into fits of laughter. Drawing pentagrams on the floor, chanting and parading around in cloaks with a goats head just looks very, very silly to me. Mind you, it's no more silly than taking sacramental bread from a priest and then drinking communion wine and believing that these two items instantaneously transmogrify into the flesh of and blood of Christ respectively. In fact, now I think about it, the two ceremonies are not that dissimilar – the obsession with blood seems to permeate both beliefs...

Teddy_boy

P1ss poor fiddle player.When he went down to Georgia johnny kicked his ass. And ive since heard johnny was a pretty poor player himself.