Debate: Satanism vs Christianity
Side: Christianity

They can't see past their own religions definition of Satan and think only that it means a rebellious subset of Christianity..This just doesn't make sense. You want to debate a "name" where each side has a different concept of the word?.I used to debate with Satanists and it blew my mind how people could worship death, destruction, eternal misery, eternal pain, etc. That is what Satan meant to me. Come to find, Satanist don't mean the same "Satan" at all. And the idiots that promote the idea that Christians "stole" Satan as it was some sort of organized crime unit. . . . is just crazy..I don't speak Sanskrit. It is one of the oldest languages written languages we know about, developed in India by the old Hindu religions. Satan is still one of their "Gods" out of thousands. They have gods for just about every little thing that can happen to you. If you are having trouble with constipation, I'm sure they have a God for it. They have religious rituals that take hours where they just name the 1000 male gods and 1000 female gods. Satan is one of them. And you are right, he isn't a bad symbol, though I don't remember exactly what..Lucifer, on the other hand is interesting..But back to Satan. His name means adversary in Sanskrit. Some people have twisted that idea to mean, "adversary of ignorance and stupidity." And if you stretch that, it sounds like "truth." But that is sort of like saying, "Satan, the Adversary of the stink from poop.".Sue me..Why? That idea that Christianity "stole" Satin is just underground poppycock trying to incite anger. I've seen very type of language used in Neo-Nazi, KKK, and other cultist types. The Devil has been called by many names down through history..Satan from the Pagans was named the "Horned One." I don't think that they actually called him Satan though. The "Horned One" was usually just called that, even though the Horned One had many names when he wasn't being the "Horned One." The Horned One was meant to depict the Great Stag, the symbol of New Life in the Spring. He was the male counter part of the Goddess..There is not proof that Horus evolved into Satan either. Horus was the winged one. There is more proof that he went to Greece and become Zeus. In a sense, he is the only one of the five that survived the feud between the siblings..The Sanskrit version of Satan couldn't have come the Hebrews by the time Satan showed up in the Bible. Alexandra the Great went to India in about 320B.C., and Satan was already in the Bible by then..Satan has been a work in progress for some time. He first got his horns in about 1100 A.D, (hard to remember.) He got his cloven hooves at the same time. I forget where he got his pick fork..I don't get what you were trying to say with the last part. Lucifer and Satan are the same thing...and god is a dick for the dickless..Oh, I was just screwing with you. However, since you ask. Jesus and Lucifer are actually the same being. Satan is a myth, made to respect our fear and used, as you said, to scare small children..Satan and Lucifer get confused as being the same being, but they are not. Lucifer is known as the "light bringer, the star of the morning, the Fallen Angel." You mentioned that Horus became Satan, but I've never found that connection. However, Horus did have connections to Lucifer. Many of the Arabic, Persian, and (I think) even the Muslims still use the name Lucifer as "light bringer" though I'm not really sure how they esteem the person and personality..The WHOLE God story has really been lost from history, except for a few. Until very recently, it probably would have been completely lost..Moses started the whole story. Before him, there wasn't any record of Adam and such. If it existed, it was verbal. Moses was rebel Egyptian Prince. He knew how to read, write, build, lead, use trances, see visions, etc, that Egyptian princes would have been educated in..Moses took the Hebrew workers that he worked with and lead a rebellion against Ramses II. The sea levels were a little lower back then, and Moses knew about the tides and such and knew when the bearer reef in the Red Sea would appear, which allowed him escape..Moses has all of Egyptian lore, rituals, history, and skills of a Egyptian priest. He knows about Isis, Osiris, Horus, etc. He has all of the religious experience. I don't really know where he got the story of Adam and Eve. He wrote the first 5 books of the Bible..He used the symbol of the Serpent as the power that tempted Eve. In Egypt, the Serpent represents Female Wisdom. Basically "female wisdom" tempted Eve. Wow, imagine that..Lucifer could have represented Horus, as I have found that. Horus the Winged One, feel from his high place to help humankind..Later, Jesus claims that the "creator" is sort of a half retarded God that wasn't quite some what he was doing. He claims that it was HIS soul that tempted Eve..Jesus was saving Man from the Creator..The fallen angel, in almost history case is a great angel that fell from his exalted state to help humans in their plight..Anyway, Satan is the "Devil" that is the Bogie Man. He represents all things that are nasty. He isn't real, but he is the symbol for the dumb.