There are seven fundamental tenets.
•One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
•The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
•One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
•The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.
•Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.
•People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
•Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word
That's why secular organisation have been successfully suing state government and getting them to remove religious monuments such as the ten commandments that were placed in front of many court houses in the 50's when the USA went all religion crazy, in the face of the godless communists.
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And when States refuse to remove the religious monuments, then in the name of freedom of religion, the groups are trying to force the government to allow them to install a satanic monument, seems like a fun game.
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Is it just me or does the Satanists Tenets seem a lot more reasonable than the tenets of Christianity.
Tenets
What is your source for that ?
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Is that the complete list or are there things about loyalty to Satan like there is loyalty to God in the Bible and Koran ?
There are lots of "tenets" in the Bible, Koran, Buddhism that you could live by and live a good life without the religious baggage that goes with it.
By the way the "Santanic temple" is actually a satire religion, its a group of atheists using it as a platform to defend religious freedom in the USA, and try and prevent Christian Conservatives making the government more religious.
There are actually people around that take that sort of thing seriously,human sacrifice etc.
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If you want atheism fine, why bring Satan into it ? It seems that atheists can't get their message across without a god of their own.
As you said, "if you want peanuts, buy peanuts
As you said, "if you want peanuts, buy peanuts
Pastafarians ?
Yes they look like a bunch of meatballs.
Saucy though.
They should use their noodles more.
I could wrap them around my fork.
How's that for satire ?
. And there did they get such a mentality from?
And there did they get such a mentality from?
IS mutilate and kill mum in broad daylight for breastfeeding in public
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wor...c/news-story/d334f03cd1684da0f8e1d10a453009c6
What I find frightening is that we are constantly being told that if we in the West criticise Islam and its tenets, whether justifiably or not, we are assisting ISIS in their recruitment of Muslims within our society. It will result in many young Muslims deciding to join the faction.
What kind of mentality must these young people already have that just hearing discussion of religious argument could tip them so easily into joining a faction that could do such atrocities. And there did they get such a mentality from?
Even VC wouldn't, I guess, could be wrong... but even he wouldn't criticise and poke holes into Christianity and other religion in front of their followers - it's just not polite, and no body asks you what yo think of their religion
Haaaaahhhhhh !!!
The year just past was, for rationalists, an unremitting annus horribilis. It leaves us with little reason to think 2016 will be much better.
But first, a digression.
If a close friend of yours told you he was feeling out of sorts and planning to go have a hole bored through his skull – an ancient procedure known as trepanation, once regarded as therapeutic for a number of ills – what would you do? You would explain to him that no evidence exists to recommend this, that medical science long ago discredited the gory practice. So no drilling through the cranium for him.
If, however, he were to accept your argument and desist from trepanation, yet instead choose to visit the local lobotomist for relief, you would have to urge him to refrain once again, as no evidence justifies lobotomies, once thought curative for various mental disorders, either. So no ice-pick up the eye socket for him.
In both cases, you would have saved your friend from unnecessary brain damage and pointless emotional duress, and would deserve his gratitude. Switching from bale to bane would have done him no good.
Yet attempt to disabuse aficionados of the brain-warping faiths in the name of which so much blood has been and is being spilled, and so much unnecessary anguish forced on so many innocents, and they will quite likely shower you with abuse, calling you an agent of Satan, morally deficient, intolerant, or just plain disrespectful. Worse, If Islam is the faith in question, a contingent of witless liberals (themselves not believers) would join in, crowing about “Islamophobia” and racism, though Islam is not a race, but a hallowed ideology with universal pretensions and followers of every skin color. The result: Religion – which is to say, a construct of comprehensive, evidence-free propositions about our universe and mankind, entertained with often fanatical certitude – enjoys, even in 2016, undeserved respect, tax exemptions costing government coffers $71 billion annually, and even a place of honor on our currency. In the world’s first secular republic, this is an outrage.
All religions are nothing more than man-made contrivances of domination and submission, exploited by humans for mundane ends, and accoutered with sundry superstitious rituals meant to ensure tribal loyalty and generate animosity toward outsiders. Long before we in the West knew of faith-sanctioned female genital mutilation or the hurling of gays from rooftops, Shakespeare declared, “What damned error but some sober brow/will bless it and approve it with a text/hiding the grossness with fair ornament.” And remember: the “damned errors” and “grossness” are all for naught. Religion is a lie, and those who profess it, dupes of the lie.
ISLAMABAD:
Another move to ban child marriages in Pakistan has fallen at the first hurdle. The bill to prohibit underage marriages has been withdrawn after the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) declared it un-Islamic.
The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony rejected the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2014 after the CII dubbed it ‘anti-Islamic’ and ‘blasphemous’.
The committee meeting, which was presided over by its Chairman Hafiz Abdul Karim, unanimously rejected the bill on ‘purely religious grounds’. Afterwards, PML-N’s Marvi Memon also withdrew her proposal.
The proposed legislation had recommended harsher punishments for those entering conjugal contracts with minors.
Last week, lawmakers in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly had also blocked a bill seeking ban on child marriages over similar concerns.
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