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[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

I think you'll find most satanists like Carl Sagan just as much or even more than Satan.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Church of Satan ones or Satanic Temple ones?

Very different answers there.

Even more variety when you get to the Luciferians.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Luciferians

I think we just call them furries.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Now that's going too far..

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Too far? .....orrrrr.....not far enough?

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

tOwO far, or nOwOt far enoUwUgh

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lucifer, which means the bearer of light, in Greek mythology represented by Prometheus, who stole divine fire to give it to humans. The clergy naturally did not like this symbology, always doing everything to keep the people ignorant and for this reason, they turned Lucifer into a symbol of evil, just as they turned the snake that incited humans to eat from the tree of knowledge into sin. original. The true root of evil has always been the clergy for its own power and as a tool for the powerful which with a cultured people could not exist. Only possible to stay in power with an ignorant and submissive people with feelings of guilt.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Shush... if theists could read they'd be upset!

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I would care as much as a news story about a sack of rice being stolen in China.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ironic, I've seen a Satanist being the guardian / guide to a furry in a full Suit at a con.

The furry wasn't the Satanist though.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was referring to the Luciferians

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What is blasphemous about Sagan?

Edit: funny enough my autocorrect changed "Sagan" to Satan automatically the first time around

[-] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 39 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

The Catholic church doesn't like it when you look up and think about what you see

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

DIDN'T like it. Then they learned their lesson to not interfere with astronomers, to the point that it was an ordained Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, who delved into the math of Relativity and came up with the concept of "the primordial atom", later popularly coined as The Big Bang, back in the 1920s. Which put Lemaître at odds with Einstein, who insisted on an eternal, "Steady State Universe".

In fact, I remember reading that the Vatican itself proudly owned this fact to the point that they financed, built and still run an observatory in Arizona, doing authentic cosmological research.

[-] AEsheron@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not to mention it wasn't really "the church" as much as one egotistical asshat in the church that had beef with Galileo and more or less made up a reason to persecute him. And when more level headed parts of the church told Galileo to chill and he'd be fine he just doubled down and thumbed his nose at the pope. It was never really about the science at all, he was being funded by the church to do his research in the first place.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That is another very important consideration, I've heard about Galileo's pride and ego, explosive temper and big mouth. How he would not listen to reason, and would burn all bridges behind him.

The pope even considered Galileo a friend, gave him all sorts of opportunities to get out of trouble, but then Galileo wrote a Plato-style dialogue between three people, one of them a simpleton, and gave that character the same speech patterns like the ones his pope friend had.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Brilliant answer. There was an excellent album touching on this by The Ocean (bandcamp link)

[-] essell@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rational thought?

Evidence based beliefs?

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago

What is blasphemous about Sagan?

*Gestures broadly at his entire career*

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

To Christians? Everything.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago
[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

When sleet just doesn't cut it anymore.

this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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