It's been awhile, and I'm back a-writing again! No more rushed shit like the last two posts I made... just quality shit. So what's on the topic list? Religion? Ah Bengs? How the Chinese race sucks? The good that Hitler brought to the world? Nah... boring stuff. Let's talk about peace. What is peace? A condition where you are in tune with yourself, away from the problems of the outside world? A situation without fighting, war, violence, and destruction? (Boooooring!) A combination of both?

Or does the word "peace" bring about visions of snow-white doves, Mahatma Ghandi, Hitler, the "Peace" symbol, God, etcetra? The following, with the exception of ONE, are examples of peace. Which of the above isn't, you may be wondering? Well, the answer is so painfully obvious that if you didn't get it, or got it wrong, you must be an idiot. I am, of course, referring to God.

I never understand why people relate God to all things good, clean and peachy and Satan with all the things wrong in the world. If anything, I would like to nominate Satan for the Nobel Peace Prize or something because Satan is the peacekeeper in this world, not God. Look at the Holy Wars, Crusades, and recently, the whole terrorism snot. Everyone is fighting for God. People are killing others, destroying property, causing grief, and killing yet more people all in the name of an entity whom we have been told to be the utmost symbol of love and compassion. But no one ever wages a war in the name of Satan. Sure we read of Satanic sacrifices once in a while or Richard Ramirez scrawling pentagrams on the walls in the rooms of people he murdered, but I honestly don't think these numbers even add up to half of the people tortured and persecuted in Witchhunts.

When I raised my proposal to nominate Satan as a symbol of peace, more than one person told me that Satan was actually the one causing the wars by decieving the people. Therefore it is/was not God that these people were/are fighting for, but actually at the instigation of the Devil. Somewhat like that whole Diabolical Mimicry thing with Jesus. My question, using the Crusades as an example, would be that if the Muslims, pagans, heretics, and Christian Crusaders were all fighting in the name of God/Allah/and so on, does it imply that Satan is so powerful that he could decieve so many people on so many levels, or that God was so powerless that He couldn't intervene, or chose not to intervene (making him uncaring?)? Or can we come to the conclusion that since all sides are fighting for a false God, that there is no God, only Satan, in the religions that are around today? Either way, I could live with these conclusions.  

But look at it not only from the point of wars, but in daily life. Many of us abstain from commiting crimes or sinning not because of our love for god, but rather for the fact that we would go to Hell if we did. There may be arguments against this, but read a few comments off the Jesus is Hitler hatemail (to be found from the links section on your left) and see for yourself. It's ingrained into almost everyone irrespective of chosen religion that a life of sin would bring forth eternal (or not, if you happen to be Taoist) torment in a pit managed, organized and ran by a being of pure evil, in the Christian view being Satan. So who's really behind that last-minute decision to not steal money from that old lady's purse? God? HELL NO! It's the thought of being thrown into Satan's fire and brimstone motel that comes into mind first. So it's Satan that is really preventing sin, not God. It's just that Satan does all the dirty work and God gets the credit. Afterall, God is the one being all elitist and exclusive about who gets into heaven whereas Satan takes just about anyone.