Comment by Sean Murphy on May 28, 2011 at 8:05pm

And Crowley definitely had a sense of humor that few of his followers got. Put a lot of paradoxes and philosophical booby traps in his writing.

Comment by James M. Martin on May 28, 2011 at 8:42pm

"The Book of Lies" is the equal of anything by Lewis Carroll.

Comment by Samantha Madison on May 29, 2011 at 8:37pm

Having once been an atheistic satanist and the fact that I own Anton's Satanic bible and hve read it cover to cover I can argue that it is not oxymoronic at all. It clearly states that "Satan" stands for "Mankind" impure, imperfect animal. It states that as a satanist you worship only yourself and you embrace you natural sexual urges and impure tendencies as a human. You worship yoursef as a god or goddess of darkness, fear nothing and no deity higher than yoursef exists. you have to be very narcissistic and have a hate for religion because it was founded as a mockery of the church.

Comment by James M. Martin on May 29, 2011 at 9:31pm

@Samantha: Crowley, years before, said, "There is no god but Man."

Comment by J. D. Brophy on May 30, 2011 at 12:57am

I heard it from Jethro Tull, sort of, but that's kind of my point. Backward masking and SRA are made-up conspiracies of fundamentalist paranoia, but art, even pop culture, sometimes sows the seeds of doubt. Or maybe fertilizes them. I had doubts, then I sought voices similar to mine that voiced them. 

Comment by James M. Martin on May 30, 2011 at 8:50am

Yeah, known Crowley fan Jimmy Paige.  Supposedly, if you run "Stairway to Heaven" backward you get "My sweet Satan."

Comment by Napoleon Bonaparte on May 30, 2011 at 4:08pm

(la nouvelle) Punk Rock Anarchiste Français

'Il faut qu'une constitution soit courte et obscure. Elle doit être faite de manière à ne pas gêner l'action du gouvernement.'
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment by Samantha Madison on May 30, 2011 at 10:40pm

yeah well thats just it man created "god" due to the fact that man is ignorant and fears the unknown. I fear nothing but the human mind and its ability to create such nonsense that can cause mass hysteria around the entire fucking planet. Ave Satanas! :)

Comment by James M. Martin on May 31, 2011 at 5:23pm

LaVey did most of his act tongue in cheek.  He was a charlatan, but so was Crowley.  They were brilliant at being charlatans.  Nothing wrong with that.  I suspect the membership had widely-disparate reasons for either believing in Satan or in the Promethean symbol he became, especially as the Light Bringer (!).

Comment by Steph S. on July 13, 2011 at 9:27pm

Just wanted to say hello to fellow Dark Atheists. 

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