LS: “What is done will be returned to the doer” (General Traditional Wiccan Beliefs).This statement can be used as a handle to describe how disobedience has led to separation from God.
SR: An article in the New York Post Magazine found that, “Sociologists who have studied LaVey’s church say its members often had serious childhood problems, like alcoholic parents or broken homes” (Harrington). To someone who has had a hard past knowing that this past is washed away can be such a comfort. Stress to the Satanist that because of the promise of salvation that comes with faith we no longer look towards the past but to what is ahead. We look to the day when we will be living with God forever, they day when he will “wipe away every tear” (Rev 21:4). Sociologists have also found that the members of LaVey’s church were, “often traumatized by guilt-ridden fundamentalist upbringings, turning to LaVey’s Satanism as a dramatic way to purge their debilitating guilt” (Harrington). What a comfort the gift of faith can bring to someone that has been trying to find relief from their guilt. That is one of the promises that faith in God brings (Heb 10:22). God promises that all guilt, which can weigh someone down to the point of breaking them, has been removed and buried with Jesus in the tomb. This is one of the magnificent promises of faith.
Works Cited
Frederickson, Bruce G. You Can Know About Satanism.
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Harrington, Walt. “Anton LaVey” Washington Post Magazine 23 Feb. 1986 http://churchofsatan.com/Pages/WaPost.html
Miejan, Tim. “The Truth About Witchcraft.” The Edge: Exploring the Evolution of Consciousness Nov. 1997, sec. 2: 29.
SilverMoon, Catala. Everyday Wicca. 1998.