Is Satanism the Largest Religion? [I Am a Satanist]

According to some Christians, as a non-Chistian I must be in league with Satan. As there are only about 2.5 billion people on Earth who identify as Christian there are 4.5 billion people "in league with Satan". Not all of those who identify as Christian a practising. Some barely know what the word Christian even means, they just claim to be because it's the official religion of their country or their parents were (or claimed to be) Christians.

It looks like Satan has at least twice the following of God! I'm not taking any chances, Hail Satan!

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kayoshin · 41-45, M

Actually that's a lie(intentional or out of misinformation). TRUE Christians don't believe that atheists or people of other religion are with Satan. Satanists are only those who, ironically, are Christians (you can't have one without the other) but choose to worship the oposer instead of God.

While the old testament has various references, one of the most important being you should not worship false gods, people seem to ignore the timeline and interpretation. Timeline because the 10 commandments were given to Moises who lived before the time of Jesus. Jesus came along and ammended much of the religion, changed the way you are supposed to interpret many things, one of them being the importance of religion itself (introducing the idea of calling yourself a man of X religion doesn't mean you are, but you have to prove it by conduct). The main difference between Christianity and Judaism is that Jesus changed focus from worshipping god as an abstract to worshipping god trough his creations: love towards fellow man(ironically one of the most ignored messages by many self proclaimed Christians).
And one of the lessons that Jesus teaches is that closeness to God is achieved trough actions not prayer(at least not prayer alone).
The good Samaritan parable is proof of the subtle yet great changes that Jesus introduced to the Judaic religion: the idea that good in the eyes of God is independent of political and religious affiliation and just a measure of our actions towards fellow humans(Samaritans were not Jewish).

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kayoshin · 41-45, M

@rob19 And no true Christians in your eyes unless they believe what you say right?
Except my statement is based on the actual book in which Jesus defines ose who follow him as true believers. If they cherry pick Jesus's teachings, by intentionally ignoring some of them, sometimes to follow the old testament blindly, they disqualify themselves as such.

So I say they are not true Christians if they behave as you said, not because I say so but because they intentionally break the teachings of the one they claim to follow. It's a simple contradiction.

Your definition of Christians is based on what they call themselves, the Bible definition is based on what people do, so you'll find that true Christians are actually a rare lot and I don't consider myself one.

Contrary to your statement it's pretty clear what a true Christian is, you just have to contrast his acts against Jesus's (pretty lax) rules and see if they match.

rob19 · M

@kayoshin

And no true Christians in your eyes unless they believe what you say right?

No, if someone admits to being a christian, that's good enough.

Except my statement is based on the actual book

All christians say that but they have different versions and interpretations.

kayoshin · 41-45, M

@rob19

All christians say that but they have different versions and interpretations.

Sure you can use that as a point, except I didn't take it as an interpretation but as a literal reference. You can read it as a novel and chronological most of the gripes people like yourself have with Christians are invalidated by the amends and clarifications that Jesus does about "interpretations" of the Old Testament just like this case. For example, you ignore the message and I find that logical since you obviously have a bias against this religion in particular and are not a Christian, yet you expect me to consider the people who ignore the message the same way you do (because it doesn't fit their "i'm a special snowflake" view of "salvation") as true cristians just because they claim they are. Doesn't seem logical to me. By that logic you could be stating you are a true Christian in your next post, then immediately follow with another religion bashing post or any other kind of judgmental attack on people for that matter, and we'd all have to buy that you are a true believer even though your acts say otherwise?

"No, if someone admits to being a christian, that's good enough." so by your logic if I say I'm muslim and say some carzy or dumb thing that simply doesn't fit the Quran, you'll take me at my word that I am a true muslim and proceed to write some hate post against muslims in general. *two thumbs up* good criteria!

Kae20 · 56-60, FVIP

I doubt very much that its the largest religion.

at a guess I would say its something like Islam ☪️

But thats just guessing, going on how many countries & cultures there are around the globe 🌎

kayoshin · 41-45, M

@Kae20 You're right, Islam is most likely the largest.

rob19 · M

@Kae20

I would say its something like Islam

Certainly in terms of practising members.

Elevatorpitches · F

I don't think thats an official religion, is it?

My guess is Christianity has the most members

Talesfromthedarkside · 26-30, M

Nah

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