I know that the serpent that suggested eating the appel wasn’t meant by the author to be the devil, but the audacity of modern Christians to make their antagonist be anti knowledge…

Of course the serpent isn’t satan, because he was cursed to live as an animal on his belly. Which, keep in mind the original authors didn’t intend for the plethora of devil and satan figures to be the same recurring character, and to be the same character as the serpent or lucifer. But none of these other characters slither on their belly, so either hes a different character or god isn’t Almighty.

So what about other character modern Christians conflate with Satan? Well what about the devil who tempted Jesus to eat in the dessert. Sounds like an act of charity to me. There are numerous health benefits to fasting, but let me check my notes, 40 days? And the reason to be obedient? Imagine if your significant other wanted you to torture your self like that for obedience. Stockholm syndrome much? Who tried to give Jesus food? Assuming hes not just hallucinating, this was written in a type of ancient Greek language often referer to today as koine greek and the character was referred to as diabolos.

Anyway, I became an atheist, while sitting in church, at around 11ish I dont remember, at least before I learned the word atheist, and the reason is I didn’t see (putting words on this as an adult, I wasn’t able to use these words at 11) I didn’t see how if god was not part of the natural world then hes not part of our world.

First time I read the word atheist and it’s definition, I remember thinking that this describes me. But after that I was able to read more about in and about the Bible, and at the time as intended in modern Christianity conflating all these devils and lucifer and the serpent, the only thing this conflated super character does anything wrong is in the book of Job, and then god encouraged and allowed him to do that. Still not saying killing someone’s family is good, but yes

The invented character that is conflated with the multiple devils and lucifer and the serpent is the good character

And god tortured and kills everyone, and gets them to obey…

I mean wtf

Oh, and my beliefs didn’t get any more Christian when YouTube came out haha

privatize profits, socialize losses …

There was actually an early sect of Christians called the Gnostics. That was sort of their whole thing.

A core belief was that everyone was the child of God, and thus, was God.

They also believed that Jesus asked Judas to go to the Romans.

The early church wiped them out to the last, and we only know what we do thanks to some sparse records and modern archeology.

Yeah, Trump being invisible too just gets them all confused.

“unfortunately. Our garments could not withstand the weather.”

I mean, you don’t even need one, but you could be a card-carrying member of the Satanic Temple.. They’ve come out and said that anyone who wants to join can do so, no fees necessary. I would view it as more of a donation to their cause.

I first read the Satanist Bible a year after leaving Christianity. It’s not only a parody of the Bible, it’s also all about believing in yourself. I found it very inspiring. My Christian family was not amused.

New doom game comes out in 3 days.