MatthewB comments on The Fundamental Question - Less Wrong

43 Post author: MBlume 19 April 2010 04:09PM

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Comment author: MatthewB 24 April 2010 02:07:41AM 0 points [-]

You mean, like a main page post? I'd love to.

You would be surprised about how rational the real Satanists (and their various offshoots and schisms) are (as the non-Christian based Satanist is an athiest).

In fact, the very first Schism of the Church of Satan gave birth to the Temple of Set (Founded by the then head of the Army's Psychological Warfare Division), which was described as a "Hyper-Rational Belief System" (Although in reality it still had some rather unfortunately insane beliefs among its constituents). The Founder was very rational though. He even had quite a bit of science behind his position... It's just that his job caused him to be a rather creepy and scary guy.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 April 2010 08:11:51PM 0 points [-]

Has today's Satanism retained any connections to Alistair Crowley?