satan

According to the bible can Satan influence our physical world or can he/she only tempt and influence humans? IOW, can Satan give cancer to babies and other such atrocities? Thanks

As I mentioned in another thread, some time ago I attended a Christian play. A former coworker of my mother's had a minor role in the play, and was giving out tickets, so my mom and I decided to check it out. I was expecting a gospel music production or an interpretive dance routine. After...

Satanic Statue In Oklahoma Satanists want statue beside Ten Commandments monument at Oklahoma Legislature So after the republican run legislature puts up a 10 commandments monument, a New York Satanic group wants to put up a Satanic monument there as well. Lucien Greaves, seriously? I want...

There is something I've tried to understand for a long time, but I've not been able to. Time and time again I've run across people who, while they object to me being an atheist, understand the idea that I don't believe in God. It's when they come to the realization that I also don't believe in...

Yep, it's true. The Bible was written by Satan himself to catch all the believers souls. Think about it - the more those Bible believers deny it, the more their souls belong to him. You really have to love that guy. What a genius!

Back in 2008, Santorum gave a speech at Ave Maria University where he talked about Satan attacking and corrupting American institutions. An audio recording of his speech can be found here: n4jopm7hYFk As a skeptic, I find what he said about academia rather troubling. Was Santorum just...

OK. I know that Halloween is not Satans birthday and never meant to be. I just thought it was a funny title. Anyway, last night I was talking with a Christian friend and she told me that there were no true atheist. She said that people who claim to be atheist are really Satan worshipers who...

I was always taught that Satan(or the devil) was this evil mastermind roaming the earth, sticking anybody that gets in his path with his pitchfork. He is usually portrayed as the opposite of G-d, the ultimate adversary. However, in my studies of Judaism, Satan is generally looked at as a servant...

When I read a description of Christianity, it is often described as being Monotheistic. Is this really the case? Unless I misunderstand, it seems that God is not the only "deity" that exists within the Christian belief system. There is also Satan, as well as various angles and demons. A number...

This is an extremely difficult subject for me to bring up. When I was a kid, my parents got involved with a church in the Tulsa area called Morningstar Church. I'd been involved in churches since I was very little, and they were all what you'd expect. Nice people, Sunday School programs...

To Christians Jews and Catholics (I think) Imagine that you have a 13 year old son, he has cancer and it is down to the end, he has only weeks to live. You have been praying endlessly over the past year, and are starting to think that it is Gods will that your son die. You have come to accept...

www.joyofsatan.com These arguments sounds just as convincing as Christian arguments: "In order to really know Satan, one must go to him personally, without prejudice or expectations. One will find he does not conform to this or that denomination’s conceptions of “evil” which have been...

I got this off the atheist knitting forum: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081506.html So....gay people are demonically possessed. Kinda cool.

Aleister Crowley professed belief in a god. Karl Marx believed in god; and Marx opined that Friedrich Engels and himself (in German Ideology) were Have heard that the devil (Lucifer, Beelzebub, etc.) is a character that only exists in Christian folklore. Is Satanism an ideology that comes from...

It has occurred to me that the Bible demonises Satan, and praises God. I'm wondering if any of this is valid, or if maybe Christians the world over have fallen for the greatest piece of propaganda in the history of time itself. Could God be the bad guy? Well, let's look at that notion...

So...big, bad Satan is sitting around, trying to think up some mischief, and what does he come up with? Posting "racy" pictures of Miley Cyrus, star of Hannah Montana. Miley responded with: Disgustingly SFW pics: http://z100.com/cc-common/gallery/display.html?album_id=93897

The Rat in a Hat has declared all out war on Satan, and will send crack teams of highly trained exorcists all around the globe to combat godless Satan-affected demon-carrying tools of the Evil Empire. (source) Can you get these Godless Demons at Wal*Mart? I'd like to get me some of this most...

Why doesn't this surprise me? http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2007081732

George Bush Is The Antichrist Seriously, why does he keep doing that demonic Satanly thing with his hands? Does he weigh the same as a duck?

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Right, I'm no expert on religion, but as I understand it one general theme of Christianity is that there are two powerful forces, good and evil. Here's my wonderfully simplistic and (probably) erroneous expression of this belief; Good is represented by an omnipotent, omniscient "father figure"...

My work on this planet is done. The son of perdition, Garry Denke

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Think about it. Without Satan (and Hell) Christianity would be an almost unheeded religion. Of course, there are Christian sects that pay less attention to the "fire and brimstone," but I feel that the attention paid to the "spiritual enemy" keeps the faithful in line. Even the Catholic...

Is it possible that when the bible refers to hell, it doesn't literally mean a lake of fire where sinners and unbelievers burn ? Is eternal burning really a pagan philosophy ? Could it be misinterpreted because of language translations and changed definitions of words ? Is it possible that...

Congratulations to Randi for getting the Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (whew!) online. He expects to sell more, rather than fewer, print copies of the Encyclopedia by having it on line, which is encouraging to those of us who have been insisting for...

So, the Catholic Church is promoting an interventionist God? What, then, prevents it from saying that Creationism is true? Or, is the church saying that God stays out of anything related to Evolution, but intervenes in human history only?

This is an honest question. Could Satan be another manifestation of god? Let’s look at what we know: When god talks in the bible, he tends to use plural pronouns such as ‘we’ and ‘us’. (See Genesis) God is described as an ‘indivisible trinity’. This trinity is the combination of...

How come this isn't on eBay? I'd certainly bid for it!

With all of the Jesus sightings on fish sticks, cheese sandwiches, and frying pans, it's about time that the other side got its turn on the auction block. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7234407