If you saw the HBO series, True Detective, you saw a show about a family of satanic worshiping Christian pastors engaged in raping and murdering children. It just so happens the story was largely true to a case that happened in Louisiana about ten years ago.
In the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JkBs4lJak
A pastor confessed to engaging in satanic worship in the upstairs of his church, when he and others engaged in child sacrifice and drank the child's blood.
It is these kinds of stories that scare "Christians" into "believing" in the Devil, and out of that fear, turning for protection to a "belief" in a "father-figure" in Heaven.
It just never occurs to such Christians that the only people who would ever do such a thing are no more delusional in their beliefs than Christians, who not only engage in the commemoration of the very same sort of act every Sunday by reenacting it (with Catholics believing they are drinking Jesus's actual blood, through a process called "transubstantiation"), but who have relied upon their beliefs of about race so often preached by religion to lynch and burn people over the centuries in droves, and often with both "amusing" their like-minded audiences in the very same way. And by "amuse" I mean hypnotize.
Nor does it occur to them that every murder is a kind of human sacrifice, for either the pleasure of a god or a serial killer. Even the animals we kill are sacrificed for our own survival, assuaging our guilt by blaming it on the demands of a god.
In this sense, the two are really just worshiping two versions of the very same God, the same way the American voter "worships" the very same political party every year, by voting Democrat or Republican, and why Columbus came to the new world for god and gold - both of which are equal in power.
What's interesting is that the pastor in the real crime admitted to having improper thoughts with his own daughter when she was a baby, thoughts which the Christian would likely attribute to the devil or his minions.
For the atheist, on the other hand, the "devil and his minions" are simply the advertisers who spend billions of dollars every year to make billions more, whose sole job is to sell us whatever they're selling as if it were our religion, and the fruit from the tree of knowledge.
In the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JkBs4lJak
A pastor confessed to engaging in satanic worship in the upstairs of his church, when he and others engaged in child sacrifice and drank the child's blood.
It is these kinds of stories that scare "Christians" into "believing" in the Devil, and out of that fear, turning for protection to a "belief" in a "father-figure" in Heaven.
It just never occurs to such Christians that the only people who would ever do such a thing are no more delusional in their beliefs than Christians, who not only engage in the commemoration of the very same sort of act every Sunday by reenacting it (with Catholics believing they are drinking Jesus's actual blood, through a process called "transubstantiation"), but who have relied upon their beliefs of about race so often preached by religion to lynch and burn people over the centuries in droves, and often with both "amusing" their like-minded audiences in the very same way. And by "amuse" I mean hypnotize.
Nor does it occur to them that every murder is a kind of human sacrifice, for either the pleasure of a god or a serial killer. Even the animals we kill are sacrificed for our own survival, assuaging our guilt by blaming it on the demands of a god.
In this sense, the two are really just worshiping two versions of the very same God, the same way the American voter "worships" the very same political party every year, by voting Democrat or Republican, and why Columbus came to the new world for god and gold - both of which are equal in power.
What's interesting is that the pastor in the real crime admitted to having improper thoughts with his own daughter when she was a baby, thoughts which the Christian would likely attribute to the devil or his minions.
For the atheist, on the other hand, the "devil and his minions" are simply the advertisers who spend billions of dollars every year to make billions more, whose sole job is to sell us whatever they're selling as if it were our religion, and the fruit from the tree of knowledge.
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