Who Creates Gods?
“An honest God is the Noblest Work of Man.EACH nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Each god was intensely patriotic, and detested all nations but his own. All these gods demanded praise, flattery, and worship. Most of them were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume. All these gods have insisted upon having a vast number of priests, and the priests have always insisted upon being supported by the people, and the principal business of these priests has been to boast about their god, and to insist that he could easily vanquish all the other gods put together. ”
"Gods" by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1872
Satanism abhors these gods in their multitudes. Satan is the anti-god... destroying all these external sources of power. In the name of Satan, there is only one true power that exists above Gods: Human minds. For it is only Human Beings that have made gods, and it is in our image that they are made. We create gods: We give them Human emotions, human desires, and even give them hands, faces, bodies, clothes and weapons. Why is all this so? We are dishonest. We create gods in this manner because we dare not admit the truth: We Are Gods.
All of our reality is constructed in our own heads. All our morals are our own interpretations. Our life is ours, and no-one elses. If anything can be called a Creator, then it is ourselves. Only we have the power to imagine-up Gods! These divine beings are at our mercy; they are weak, we are strong. When we realize just who holds the balance of power, we will realize that all external gods are false, only the internal one is real.
No objective morals
Morals are subjective
We learn what is good and what is bad through society, suppressing our id which is in turn dictated by our genes and experience. What is seen as good in one society is seen as bad in another. The death penalty is a good example of this - there are many countries and billions of people who view the death penalty as immoral because it takes away a persons life. However there are also billions of people who believe it is moral because it protects innocent people from harm to the extent that it is worth the possibility of a mistaken trial.
When we see the world we can describe it as Good or Evil, Moral or Immoral. Our experience and upbringing teaches us what to call "good" and what to call "bad". They are part of our subjective reality. We could not all agree on an objective moral, and nor would it be objective if we could (it'd be democratic).
Objective morality is impossible
It is said by some that God decides on an absolute level what is Good or Bad. It does not matter. God and morals are irrelevant and distant from one another. If God says something is an absolute Good, then so what? Every single person will interpret that moral differently, according to their understanding, and no two people would come up with exactly the same concept. It is impossible to communicate the exact same thought pattern onto everyone, it is impossible to dictate an absolute moral. Even if we could then every individual would not necessarily agree that the statement was moral, once again, due to their individual and unique experience of reality everyone still has to choose whether (s)he agrees whether it is good or not. Even if there were objective morals, it would impossible to view them objectively. Within the scope of Human experience, objective morals do not exist.
No objective personal God
When a concept or thought enters my consciousness it has came from my memories and experiences. Neurones and chemicals are not single-path elements and many times my memories and such get corrupted and altered slightly, often randomly. The way our brain stores memories is a compression and type-set method, so the majority of our memories are only psuedo-recordings, even more susceptible to error.
If we assumed that a single, objective, conscious supreme Creator existed then how would we experience it? Like everything else we would have to take in information about it, store that information, and then retrieve it in order for us to be able to think about it at all. This process in effected by everyone's biochemical makeup. Some people have a genotype that means they recall things more or less accurately over time, etc.
When talking of this "objective" being there would be no two people who could agree on all the details of it, because they can both only view it subjectively. Every person believes in a different God, depending on their character. They take in facts and subconsciously alter them in the same way as everything else, of course.
They believe in it and they believe they know facts about it. In reality the facts they believe in and the deity they pseudo-perceive are figments of their reality, of their subjective reality, and could never be considered real! If we both believed in the same facts, then it would be real for us, but for no-one else.
This externalisation of what is obviously a personal and internal matter is possibly the source of many theists insecurity. They think they personally have the most accurate view of the objective God and therefore try to assert their version upon other people in order to build up a people-resource to replace their psychological security disorder.
In our image
People create gods in their own image according to their own desires. Gods are our creations. Within organized religion, people's opinion on their "god" is always individual and subjective but merely uses the terminology of their religion to describe their own god.
Outside of religion, people come up with their own terminology to describe "Gaia", Pantheism, Paganism, monotheism... depending on a person's will and need they search out gods that closely match what they themselves want. Gods are created according to our needs.
If a real God does exist, then we cannot perceive it. We can only perceive ourselves and our own expectations projected into the heavens. It is our own sense of ego that we feel from god. It is our own pride that makes us think we know the truth. God is the individual, and each individual may as well be his own god.
Masters of Existence
Objectivists say to philosophical existentialists: There is an objective reality. The comment is useless on existentialists. The reply is: Can you not see that you only think there is an absolute reality?
I say this: In my subjective reality, I believe in the idea of an objective reality. My belief in an objective reality is really just my subjective point of view. It's the third side of the coin. It's down to Earth Satanic common sense.
All things good and evil are good, or evil, because I say they are. I do not have an objective view of things, or people, so immoral and moral are what I have been taught they are, or what I subjectively think they are. Even if I believed in an objective definition of "good" or "bad" then it would still only be my belief, not a fact, and certainly not objective. By the method of believing anything is true a person must admit that they only believe it subjectively; to think otherwise is to think yourself omniscient.
Everything I have created myself, through my sensors, stored in my brain, effected by my mechanics and is only imagined and recalled within my own self. My entire subjective universe is created by me, no one else! I am the one who chooses what I label as good or bad, I am the designator of morality and existence, I am God. I am the process that decides what is real, I am God, there is no other God within my subjective experience and if I thought there was then it too would be a construct of my personal perspective. I would have created it, as many people have created Gods in their imagination before.
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"Shakespeare
"Enemy, ye shall say, but not villain; Diseased one, ye shall say, but not Rogue; Fool, ye shall say, but not Sinner"
Self Worship
Who can take self worship seriously? What does one do in order to do such a thing - what does it mean, anyway?
wor-ship (wûr'shìp) n.
1. a. Reverant love and devotion for a deity or sacred object.
b. The ceremonies or prayer by which this love is expressed.
2. Ardent devotion; adoration; his worship of fame.
What is divine in the world that I can claim to worship?
If I prayed I would not be externalizing or relying on hope. A prayer for me is a meditation and a reflection: Can I do it? rather than Will it get done? If I want something done it is up to me to make it happen. I better pray I can. Every prayer to an externalized creator is a waste of time during which I could be acheiving that which I would otherwise only have prayed for. A Satanist does not pray for money - he tones his own skills and gets a job instead.
Self Worship means that you consider your world to be the construct of your own. It means that your point of view is holy. As our only source of information is in our own database then it is our holy mission to ourselves to find out the truth, the whole truth and to let no disinformation sway us. Believing in a lie, in something that is not true, is a sin and a blasphemy to yourself, your holy subjection and such stupidity clearly violates the primary sin of Satanism.
The persual of the truth, the logical truth, is the holy mission of those who worship themselves. No assumption should be left untrialed, and no taboo should be left untouched for fear that an untruth creep and festers within your reality. A mistruth within our personal models of reality is blasphemy to our existence.
The tree of knowledge is the key to happiness and the justification of your existence: To worship yourself one has to realize that you are only temporary, a fleeting biological method, and as such no one else regards you as highly as you yourself can! Keep your reality pure, keep it true, do not let it be refuted so always be ready to shine through and alter what you thought you knew should you ever be proven wrong. An outstanding characteristic of a good Satanist is his ability, after a long argument, to say "Oh, you're actually right about this, I'll use that fact in the future."
Peter Gilmore, the High Priest of the Church of Satan concludes for us:
“To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. [...] Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshipped, rather it is a name for the reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will.”"The Satanic Scriptures" by Peter Gilmore1