Satanist vs Satan Worshiper

Background information:

Test results from an informal online questionnaire taken by Dr S an
Atheist / Satanist.


1. Nontheist (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (100%)
3. Theravada Buddhism (70%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (70%)
5. Neo-Pagan (47%)
6. Liberal Quakers (40%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (18%)
8. New Age (18%)
9. Taoism (17%)
10. Bah=E1'=ED Faith (0%)
11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (0%)
12. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (0%)
13. Eastern Orthodox (0%)
14. Hinduism (0%)
15. Islam (0%)
16. Jainism (0%)
17. Jehovah's Witness (0%)
18. Mahayana Buddhism (0%)
19. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (0%)
20. New Thought (0%)
21. Orthodox Judaism (0%)
22. Orthodox Quaker (0%)
23. Reform Judaism (0%)
24. Roman Catholic (0%)
25. Scientology (0%)
26. Seventh Day Adventist (0%)
27. Sikhism (0%)



Dr S:

'Look at all da pretty zeros."


V:

"Hi Dr. S, I was curious are you Satan worshiper? Can you give a
synopsis of your beliefs / philosophy / morals The high amount of zeros
might come from strong priority views, since most of my votes where in
the middle priority range with few highs and low extreme "


Dr S responds:

"If I was a 'Satan Worshipper' I should think my answers with regard to
the cosmos in general would have put me closer to christian than
non-theist. No, I am no sort of theist whatsoever. I find 'spiritual'
matters downright ridiculous. I am a Satanist, however. Please do a
precursory search of this site for my posts on this subject before
presenting any further questions as pertaining to this matter. I have
answered them all, on this site, already,in triplicate, and really have
no desire to do so yet again."


V:

"Thank you for your reply. Have you discussed the difference between a
theist Satanist and a non theist Satanist or is the term Satanist
devoid of deifying Satan as opposed to a Satan worshipper? If this
topic is addressed in your archives, I would appreciate a link to it or
short answer here, as that is my only question for you."


Dr S responds: N.A.


V:

I cut out a few lines of non material discussion but my question 'is
the term Satanist devoid of deifying Satan as opposed to a Satan
worshipper' was never addressed by Dr S. After searching the
originating forum for the answer and losing interest I went to the
wikipedia which did not answer my question. Then a search on google
yielded nothing. I must admit that I am an ADD so, I did not utilize
these references 'exhaustively' so if the answer is buried under tons
of useless information, my nature blocks me from finding it after 30 to
40 minutes of searching.

All was not lost though... I did find a couple of one useful tidbits
for my efforts

One was a new forum to join: http://www.rationalresponders.com/forums

And number two was a response to a similar problem 'C' had with Dr S. A
problem that seems to be a common occurrence with the Satan crowd.


C:

"alright, ive said it once and ill say it again (unlike dr. s). this is
a PHILOSOPHY FORUM AND THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH READRESSING THINGS TO
GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEM. if you dont want to anwser
questions that you anwesered months ago in some other obscure post,
then LEAVE. all you do is tell people to refrence this or refrence that
well guess what numbnuts THIS IS A RELIGIOUS FORUM, NOT A DAMN BOOK
CLUB, IF YOURE TOO HIGH AND MIGHTY TO DISCUSS IT THEN FEEL FREE TO
EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO BLOW ME"


V:

Since Dr S will not answer the question I resubmit it here for others
of a more charitable nature to discuss.

"is the term Satanist devoid of deifying Satan as opposed to a Satan
worshipper?"

And if you please oblige me with one other question.


'C' mentioned this same complaint regarding Dr S. Is this the game
that Satanists / Satan worshiper play to feed the desire for attention?
They like to make a show of things, put pride in 'extreme views' but
run away from the discussion when questions are asked?

I will add that all Satan worshipper are not as benign as Dr S. I knew
someone that counseled a Satan worshiper that killed his parents and
drank their blood as part of the satanic ritual.

Satan worshipers interesting lot...your thoughts?
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Take care,
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V (Male)
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Agnostic Freethinker