Good luck proving what made you sick, though. A foodborne illness can sometimes take days before you develop symptoms. At that time, you might think it was that sketchy chicken salad that made you sick, and you might be right…but it could also be any number of other things that you ate before you got sick.

I love how they mock the guy that they kidnapped and sent to a foreign gulag where he was tortured.

Ha, ha! Great joke! He’s probably going to have PTSD for the rest of his life! So funny.

That’s cool and all, but I don’t see how that changes anything. Christian Satan is different from Jewish Satan.

Sure, but we’re talking about Satan within Christian mythology, not Judaism.

You should read Revolt of the Angels.

Have you read the Bible? The only evil shit that Satan does is when he fucks up Job’s life, and that’s in collusion with God. Meanwhile, God is doing evil on almost every page of the Old Testament.

The reason we’re supposed to hate Satan is because he rebelled against God. Again, if you’ve read the Old Testament, you have dozens of good reasons to rebel against God.

This train of thought is what lead to the creation of Satanism as a literary movement in the 19th century and then as a religion in the late 20th century.

Huh. Interesting. Do you know any WWII scholars who will back you up on this?

I hope so. I don’t think that the attempt here is to win in court. They don’t have a case, and they know it. The attempt is to scare people away from protesting.

Speaking as a Satanist: we don’t believe in Heaven, Hell, or an afterlife, so we’re very much anti-apocalypse. This world is the only one we’ve got, so we don’t want it to end.

The only good that prayer can do is as a mindfulness exercise, and there aren’t any shortcuts for those.

So that’s what those are for? That’s like saying “I don’t need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!”

That thing would make me want to start praying if it’s very existence didn’t prove that there was no god.

What’s wrong with effective altruism?

I don’t know how you could read the Bible and not think that’s where those are fuckers are going.

Apocalyptic religions? Where the apocalypse is a good thing? Those are scary.

These are conservatives. They won’t tolerate a woke AI.

Because they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.

This is Christianity.

Never forget that Christians think that the apocalypse is a good thing.

I was thinking of another word that starts with S.