The word "Satanism" was adopted into English from the French satanisme.[14] The terms "Satanism" and "Satanist" are first recorded as appearing in the English and French languages during the sixteenth century, when they were used by Christian groups to attack other, rival Christian groups.[15] In a Roman Catholic tract of 1565, the author condemns the "heresies, blasphemies, and sathanismes [sic]" of the Protestants.[14] In an Anglican work of 1559, Anabaptists and other Protestant sects are condemned as "swarmes of Satanistes [sic]".[14] As used in this manner, the term "Satanism" was not used to claim that people literally worshipped Satan, but rather presented the view that through deviating from what the speaker or writer regarded as the true variant of Christianity, they were regarded as being essentially in league with the devil. — Wikipedia: Satanism

I can see it being a rational choice (but by no means an obligatory one) to pick option 2. — Pfhorrest

If one believes there is no actual life after death, and everyone dies eventually, then all that survives anyone is their legacy, so dying sooner rather than later in exchange for a greater rather than lesser legacy makes a kind of rational sense. — Pfhorrest

The West dismisses its own adage, "As above, so below." as mere superstition, but the self-sameness at different levels of fractals falls out of the mathematics of self- referential definition and reiteration (change). — unenlightened

St Paul clearly teaches that each Christian is the bride of Jesus. He can't marry a group as a group, so the meaning of the Church as the bride of Christ is clearly that each Christian marries Jesus when he becomes a Christian — Gregory

Their theology and ethics involve our being forgiven for something we didn't do. — Banno

Now I remember why. — Sir2u

There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of course not. For such a person there are only unmotivated motives for living. On the heights of despair, the passion for the absurd is the only thing that can still throw a demonic light on chaos. When all the current reasons — moral, esthetic, religious, social, and so on — no longer guide one's life, how can one sustain life without succumbing to nothingness? Only by a connection with the absurd, by love of absolute uselessness, loving something which does not have substance but which simulates an illusion of life. I live because the mountains do not laugh and the worms do not sing.

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To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known. — Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Dispair

Religion has been on earth for thousands and thousands of years and it never figured out, and does not know how to produce healthy humans. — JerseyFlight

Spread your wings, gird up thy loins, pull yourself up by your bootstraps -- whatever metaphor you like, engage the search for what might make life worth living. You are a smart young man (?); but settling on meaning requires more than thought; it also requires life-experience. — Bitter Crank

Because The Ancient Ones Measured The Great Pyramid In "Feet", "Mile", "Yard" For Their Unit Of Measure — The Grandfather Of Philosophy

Objectively, The Square Perimeter Of Earth Is Exactly 31680 Miles. — The Grandfather Of Philosophy

However, The Unit Of Measure Does Not Determine The Mathematical And Geometrical Connections, — The Grandfather Of Philosophy

Did you ever hear the joke about the ten day camel? — Sir2u

Human whack a mole, sounds interesting. But what or where is nothing? — Sir2u