Perspective is Everything

Hello Dreamers,

He's back.

For those who can't read the thumbnail, the quote is:

Hail to myself! I am my own God and Master. I don't need a shephard for I am not sheep!

Upon first glance, some might be thinking: the narcissistic hubris of someone to worship themselves, liking themselves to a god!

I mean, I read the quote and immediately thought of Ganondorf. He's a recurring villain in the Legend of Zelda series known for arrogance, megalomania, and being insanely blinged out. I mean, no one is telling him drop-earings, head jewels, and wire headdresses one wraps their hair around are girly! He robbed the gods, do you think he gives a fuck about your silly little gender norms?

Where is that quote from?

It's a commonly repeated affirmation among Satanists - most of which are edgy atheists. It is an affront to how organized faith preaches that you are to surrender yourself to the higher power, doing as these powers dictate to you.

Christianity likens followers to sheep needing guidance from the shepherd that is God, keeping them from getting lost or eaten by wolves. Thus the last line.

The critique of this understanding of divinity is it teaches people to be ashamed of themselves. That they are incapable and incompetent and need to defer to authority, following the leader, and serving God. While the religion says God on paper, when put to practice it usually means whatever the clergy tells you to do under the guise of it being God's Will.

Sounds like fascism, doesn't it?

Satanist movements preach to love yourself. That you are capable of guiding and thinking for yourself. That you serve no one but yourself. To be unashamed of your existence.

That you are human, not sheep!

If you are lost, you can find your way out.

What do you expect from a faith system that thinks Eve eating the fruit was a good thing: freeing us from God's yoke? From an idealogy that exists as a protest to religious dogma, and the damage it's left?

By no means do you have to agree with this. It is food for thought as we see how religious fanatism has poisoned much of the world, especially the United States.

If this is the world God wanted, Lucifer doesn't seem so bad.