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Agnostic Satanism

Introduction

This article was written for the beginning Satanist, or anyone else for that matter, whom is reading up on Satanism. Being an agnostic Satanist I noticed that a lot of articles where written with the LaVeyan/atheistic, Luciferian, and theistic/spiritual mind set. So I decided to take it upon myself to write something about what agnostic Satanism is and how I came upon it myself. To begin with, lets take a look at the name agnostic Satanism. I won't go into defining the word Satanism because that is readily available on the internet. The website http://dictionary.reference.com gives the following definitions of the word:

agnostic: -noun 1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as god, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of in some area of study.

-adjective

3. of or pertaining to agnostics or agnosticism.

4. asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.

For the sake of this article, lets stick to definitions 1 and 2. Basically my personal walk in on the satanic path began as a teenager where I feel into the whole animal killing/reverse Christian type of Satanism. I grew out of that stage and began to take a serious interest into Wicca and Gnosticism around age 18. I still enjoy ritual magic, but more on that later. Like most Americans I was raised Christian. The churches we went to where the Holy Roller Pentecostal churches. I can still remember people jumping, running, and speaking all that gibberish. At the age of 22 or 23 I read "The Satanic Bible" by Anton LaVey and found something that I felt inside of me. The info in the book more or less gave me a license to be myself. Every thing else wanted me to change myself to there whim as oppose to Satanism where I could just be myself. I started out as a LaVeyan Satanist and later found that there are some sub categories of Satanism. To the outsider looking in this is are equivalent of the varies denominations of the Christian faith. I never was quite comfy with the title LaVeyan or theistic concepts of Satanism and thought that maybe I should look into the Luciferian path but wasn't quit comfy with dropping the Satanist title. I found out about the subcategories soon after discovering Rev. John Allee on youtube.com while using the computer at the local library. Only given 30 minutes of use, there wasn't much time to gather info. About 3 years ago some things happened in my life that I don't care to get into and things settled down in my life and was able to obtain an internet connection of my own. I stumbled upon Zack (sin), Jason King, Venus Satanas, and others on youtube.com. After watching Zack's video about him being agnostic in his view of Satanism, I quickly looked up the definition and guess what? I finely found the missing piece of the puzzle. As I stated above, for this article, we are using the following definitions: 1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as god, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. 2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of in some area of study. Allow me to be explain my exact philosophy: Agnostic Satanism, as I have come to practice it, is the belief that a literal deity such as Zeus, Isis, Thor, Jehovah, est. don't exist in the traditional way that we as a people have come to understand the concept of god/dess. There isn't any animorphic deitys that exist. However, I don't doubt that there are forces in nature that mankind has yet to completely understand. I believe that these forces, which ever the case may be, reside in every aspect of the whole universe. And now that I got this much out of the way, in the nexed few sections, I will take you much deeper into not only my philosopy, but also give a basic understanding of my magical operations.

Section 1

The Satanic Ritual Abuse Issue orThings My Sunday School Teacher Never Told Me!!!

At this point I would like to address the whole "Satanic Panic" issue of satanists molesting children and sacrificing babys, animals and whatever else to an animorphic deity named Satan. As I stated before, I don't believe in an animorphic deity named Satan exists, so that part is shut down. The "molestation/sacrifice of humans/animals" parts of it, if you, the reader, will allow it, to quote Mr. LaVey: "Under NO circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby." "The Satanic Bible" page 89 Paragraph 1 Line 1. "Satanism does not advocate rape, child molesting, sexual defilement of animals, or any other form of sexual activity which entails the participation of those who are unwilling or whose innocence or naivete would allow them to be intimidated or misguided int doing something against their wishes" "The Satanic Bible" Page 79 Paragraph 2 Lines' 5 - 10. Anyone who has seriously looked at satanism over the past 40 - 60 years knows that the previous statment comes at no shock. If this seems unbeliveable then feel awakend to the truth. And for those who refuse to read this simply because I'm a Satanist and all Satanists lie, then there's nothing here worth reading. Well let's be honest here, Satanists do lie, I have lied before, but that's a whole other conversation. But guess what, Christians lie to. I woun't deny the fact that human and animal sacrifice can and does happen. As well as ritualized rape and molestaion of children and woman. When in a society that advocates half truths and flat out lies, this sort of behavior is bouned to happen. When the whole "Satanic Panic" had done was to place all Satanists into one single category, calling all of us a bunch of peda;hiles whom have nothing better to do then to go around kidnaping children, woman, and animals for sexual abouse and blood rituals. Again, I don't deny that this type of thing happens, but on a much smaller and isolated scale. Over the past 50 or so years, there have only been a small case of satanic ritual abuses, but I won't go any further becuase this info can be found on the internet and on websites that have nothing to do with satanism or christianity so there isn't any conflict of interist. This is basicly my stance on this subject: I only sacrifice those whom have gone out of there way to harm me by useing a distructive rite that simbolicly distroys them by placeing needles in pens, written storys, ect. But more on my ritual workings later.

The Foundations of a Philosophy with Religious Overtones

My philosophy begins with Anton LaVey's "Satanic Bible". Anton Szandor LaVey was born Howard Staton Levey on April 11, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois and died on October 29, 1997. His father was Michael Joseph Levey and his mother was Gertrude Augusta Coultron.