Debate: Satanism vs Christianity
Side: Satanism

1. By your admission in your last dispute, Christianity is well organized religion with broad membership. Satanism is not as cited in your last post stating, "many Satanist keep their thoughts to themselves."I fail to see a point to this. It it doesn't say one side is better. It's just a difference.2. Christianity teaches a focus on subservience to a purpose larger than one's self. I noticed other posts by you which show Satanism is a "me-first"religion. Anything left over can help others... if you want.Subservience to a supernatural being that does not exist. Most of what a Christian does is for A) god or B) the reward of an afterlife. For a satanist they don't have to do things for A and B because those things don't matter. As in, Satan doesn't care and it doesn't change where you're going after you die. Therfore when a satanist does something its because they really care. Not because of some god. And also, Christian people dont do any more things for others than satanists do. It's the leaders of the churches that use the funds to do good to maintain an image. Not necessarliy because they want to. Also alot of the time a Christians idea of "helping" something or someone is by praying. Which does nothing yet provides that person with a feeling of doing something. Satanists don't do this. Also I totally agree with putting yourself first. It makes more sense in this modern world. I'f i don't have the money to pay for groceries for my family, what right do I have sending it to others? It's not really selfish. Selfish would be if someone could spend money on a flat screen tv or put a few bucks in the Salvation army bucket. Satanism says "make sure you're all set before giving to others". Think about it, America is going in the shitter because we had to help everybody else and neglected our own needs.3. Christianity, with only 33% of the world's religious population, is responsible for more philanthropic endeavors than all other religions or non-government charitable giving COMBINED. According to your post, Satanists may give, but we do not know.And this proves...? Like i said before, they only do more good because there's more people. It's not a hard concept. Also satanism isn't organized. There's no churches, no pooling of money. So large donations and such cant be done. Who knows maybe by and large satanists have given more as regular people than regular Christians do. You really didnt prove anything here. 4. Despite holding only 33% of the world's religious population, Christianity is the most well funded religion in the world. This is because Christian's are one of the most well educated and wealthy followers;Wooooahhh. Where did THIS come from? Well educated and wealthy? Try ignorant and foolish. With probably the same social classes as satanists. It's well funded BECAUSE it has more people! It's not like the other 66% is one religion. It's all broken up into smaller chunks. 33% is MASSIVE. and if every one gave one buck it would be billions. Just because the churches pour out the cash doesn't mean the people gave alot or if they really cared. Many probably didn't even know their cash was going to these things. Most of it goes towards the churches! Christianity asks for more donations from people than any other religion. You go on a Wiccan site and there's spells and practices and a forum for talking about the religion. You go on a Christian site and BOOM one of the first things you see is DONATE! if it's so well funded then why is it constantly begging for money? Seems there's alot of underlying greed especially in the catholic church.Anyways as I was saying you have nothing to back up that Christians are more wealthy and educated. In fact, seeing as satanism is about knowledge, the education thing is probably outright false and backwards. And seeing as satanists make are smart, they probably get good jobs and make alot of money. And since they make sure they're economically stable, they stay that way. Which in turn allows them to give more. Unlike the average Christian who is afraid of science and puts one buck in the gold pan at church then goes home to a potentially indebted household. These are all generalizations and guesses of course.or to put it another way, Christians are more successful and share more of that success than other religions. According to your post, Satanism is not organized and, therefore no concerted efforts is possible.I addressed the success thing above. But yeah, as a unit satanists can't give because it's a non organized religion in any form. Though individually satanists may and perhaps do give more and that giving holds a more genuine meaning.It is easy to see that, when the religions are compared head to head in a "Consumer Reports" style analysis, then Christianity wins hand down.I disagree. If you only look at it as far as giving goes than sure only because of a larger population. There are many other factors. Satanists are probably more in tune with their faith or philosophy because since it is not in the mainstream of society AND generally frowned upon, they must have a real connection with it to follow it despite these things. Whereas many Christians either are indoctrinated from youth or follow what the mainstream of society is. Conversion rates from Christianity to atheism are growing rapidly these days. This is due to increased knowledge of how the religion is false and also suggests that people are using it as a label and are not really in tune with it. Which I would say is a problem. It's not much of a religion without faithful followers.There's also teachings to take into account and also the lore and history of the religions. Xhristianty has a horribly bloody history of war, violence, and manipulation. Where as satanists are totally off the radar. Bible stories are filled with immoral absurdities, and bloody violence and all kinds of horrible things. Jesus is a small part compared to these things. Satanism doesn't really have much in the way of stories. Nothing really. Because it's about modern day. It's new and appropriate for the 21st century. Not outdated and cruel. Im not saying that it's new and hip and that's why its better. Im saying it doesnt need these stories to relay it's teachings. The teachings which are more appropriate for 21st century society.In your rebuttal, you also mention that many of the stories are not moral, but you cite a few passages out of context. In fact, all of the stories in the Bible result in a moral lesson. I understand, however, how this may seem when one interprets the religion literally. The good news is that, if taken literally, the lessons remain helpful.Yes but I wasnt talking about the moral lesson. Like you said I'm talking about the stories. Which are horribly immoral in most cases. What good is relaying a good message with blood, violence, and hate? Also if taken literally this completely destroys the image of an all loving god. Also, I wouldn't say that many of these moral lessons are actually moral. Stories were used to relay these teachings before Jesus came into play. He said things straight up. But with god they're these stories that end up usually with the lesson relating to god. For instance the end message might be "never lose faith in god". This isn't moral. It's, to quote a beloved movie "a crummy commercial? son of a bitch". That isn't even moral to anyone but Christians. Now god did also say a few things outright but a lot of these are immoral or don't make any freaking sense. Kill gays, kill witches, kill unbelievers yada yada yada.Then there's don't wear a blend of two fibers? WTF?And even in the 10 commandments what is first? The pinacle of all rules for Christians? There shall be no god before me. Really? That's the biggest rule? Wow, so that is clearly what is the most important thing to Christians. Their god.Now then there's Jesus who did teach good. Well sort of. There was the part where he told people to mutilate themselves so they won't sin. And where he killed a fit tree because it didn't give him fruit. And he told people to abandon their families and follow him but that's besides the point.Now, he taught all these good things. And yet, for what? He was telling people how to get to heaven. So really, he wasn't teaching people to be good because that's the right thing to do. He was teaching them things so they can get to heaven! Now that is selfish. So really. True morality is few and far between in the bible.Satanism may not tell you how to do it or to do it at all. But if you do, it's because that's the right thing to do. I'm gonna cut this in half because I don't trust my iPod lol. I'll do the second half tomorrow on a desktop.