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I agree that you shouldnt have to treat anyone you dont feel is worthy as an equal. Though you seem to lump a lot of people in with the ones that you dont feel are equal. What I want to know is, why do you feel that all these people are not equal? How can you put judgement on so many people without knowing them? I agree that a lot of these people would shun us as soon as they found out what we were, but there are decent few who will continure accepting you. My one friend who is Christian is one of my greatest friends and he knows that I am a satanist. He is just fine with it. Not everyone who is a christian will damn you to hell for it. So, where do you get that you can pass judgement on all these people.

i told my friends just once when i was drunk and i doubt anyone remembers it.
one of them told me not to kill him when i went crazy though.....

Dude I know, what's up with that? Alot of my friends were always saying s**t like that. kinda pissed me off. s**t like "let me know which day your gonna shoot up the school so I can stay home." Tiz agrivating to say the least.

I've never lost any friends over it, though I did explain my beliefs to a couple of friends. One of them (who is not religious in the least) was overall cool with it but seemed a little bit...uncomfortable, I guess you'd say. The other friend, who happens to be a devout Catholic, was 100% fine with my beliefs. Odd. My parents don't know yet, but my brother and sister seem to suspect I practice witchcraft (and I think my parents might suspect a bit also) but they don't about the Satanism part. One time my family went on vacation to this place that supposedly has a lot of energy vortexes or something like that, pagans flock to it, and we were looking through a shop that carried ritual supplies. I was inspecting some crystals when my little sister came up to me, tugged on my hand, and informed me that there was an adjoining room that held books on witchcraft. She eagerly pulled me over so I could see them. It was pretty damn cute. biggrin

Eh, sorry it took so long to reply, I didn't realize this post was directed at me. If it isn't, well, I'm an idiot and I'm sorry.

Anyway, I am indeed a sort of cross between Wicca and various pagan religions and Satanism. Not theistic Satanism, but more along the lines of LaVeyan Satanism. I perform rituals of my own that are inspired by Wiccan rituals, and I follow the Rule of Three belief, and a few other small bits. The thing that makes it most Wicca-like is my belief in a higher power of some sort, though I don't presume to know what it is or even if I am right in believing it exists. I have assigned two goddesses to represent this higher power, simply because they are the two goddesses I am familiar and comfortable with, that I connect with most easily. I don't believe these goddesses are the higher power, only that the use of them gives me an image and an entity to associate with the higher power. The two goddesses are Sekhmet and Bastet. With myself and the two goddesses, there is formed the sacred triangle of Maiden (me), Mother (Bastet), and Crone (Sekhmet). This ties into my belief that I can perform rituals and magick myself, using my own power, much as a Satanist would perform rituals, but that I must also call on outside powers for assistance and patronage as a Wiccan would believe. Now, if I believe in a higher power, how can I be a non-theistic Satanist? Simply because I incorporate the Satanic teachings of love and hate to those who deserve it, revenge, and all that along those lines into my belief system. No Wiccan would perform black magick for revenge, but I say if they deserve it then go ahead. I use certain Wiccan beliefs, but don't adhere really to the Wiccan Rede, and instead go by my own morals which are heavily influenced by Satanism. I hope I didn't make that really confusing, because I sometimes have trouble explaining it...