In the upcoming weeks I’m going to be referring to other religions in relation to Satanism. I will try to always qualify my assertions by saying, ‘Some [religious practitioners] ‘, but if I do not I should like to state for the record that I am not referring to every single adherent of a particular religion. I am referring to those who lack critical thinking skills or who do not extend me the same courtesy I extend to them. I have no problem listening to another person’s personal philosophy or religious beliefs, as I am comfortable with my own. I do have a problem with people who assume that, because I do not hold the beliefs they do, I must be stupid or evil. I do not think those that disagree with me are ignorant or wrong-I assume that everyone has given their beliefs a great deal of thought and come to their own conclusions about what’s right for them.

People who think those who disagree with them are wrong feel justified in haranguing those others; they divide the world into Right/Wrong, therefore, if someone tries to explain a philosophy that differs from theirs they interpret that as us saying they’re wrong. And they do not feel they should extend the courtesy of listening to the person with a differing viewpoint, as anything they say is wrong.

My philosophy is that the world is made of jerks and not-jerks and everything else is window-dressing. Every group of people has both in their ranks. Non-jerks of any stripe are okay by me and I simply avoid the jerks. Life is too short to willingly subject oneself to those who exist solely to antagonise one.

Neither am I trying to antagonise the non-self-aware jerks. If you disagree with me then simply don’t come here. If you choose to read these posts then you can also choose to be civil. Intelligent discussion is welcome. The rants of the ignorant or name-calling will be disregarded.