Letter to the satanists.
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Because Satan is pretty much a name? It's not some deep meaning, it's just basic grammar. Like capitalising God when referring to the God of the Bible because.
And I don't know what a tumblr satanist is, but a girl I was great friends with (we were both metalheads) found a Satanist site called Joy of Satan and linked it to me because she found it interesting and funny. She didn't expect me to voraciously read every single page on the site and to end up actually getting convinced by it. The main obstacle is that I was raised Orthodox Christian (I was more religious than my entire family as a child, because it wasn't forced on me - I made my family go to Church with me because I thought it was nice). But the site exposed all the contradictions and logical errors in the Bible (basically, the classic evidence that atheists point to) that, eventually, lead me to believe that it wasn't real. Which I still believe - I just also believe that the Satanism isn't real either. If I belong to any religion now, then it'd be Buddhism, since meditation helped me a lot.
None of the other religions did anything for me - nor have they ever shown to be anything but outdated rulesets that made life easier in those times. The only major religion that seems compatible with the modern world is Buddhism, and it's the only religion that seems to actually advocate for self-improvement, and has reformation built-in from the beginning.
Jordan Peterson's analyses of Biblical stories have shown me that the Christian origins of western society have plenty of value. I believe in Christian morality, but as a religion (instead of a selection of very important mythological stories that formed western societies) it seems blatantly ridiculous to actually believe in.
Meanwhile, Buddhist teachings have managed to help me get my shit together in a matter of months and Buddhist monks I've gotten to know have been some of the most amazing people I've ever spoken to.
Uh... Not a single Buddhist I've ever met, and I've met plenty recently, believes that. Most do not believe anything supernatural at all. And I'm talking about practicing Buddhist monks, one of which has been a Buddhist monk for 20 years and yet still calls himself an atheist (in terms of belief in a deity).
The DEFINITION of a Buddha (not only one Buddha, ours is the last one, Siddhartha Gautama) is one who reaches enlightenment and then proceeds to enlighten civilisation, usually referring to his teachings of meditation. The attitude of most Buddhists I've met, including the monks, has been "just meditate and you'll see the changes yourself" and surely enough, meditation really does seem to lead to a specific set of morals because of the (entirely natural and mundane, yet profound) experiences that it produces, a set of morals that aligns pretty well with Christian morality that founded the western world as well.
I have not been conditioned into believing that biblical stories are ridiculous to believe in. I know some buddhists who believe in some supernatural things, and I personally find it ridiculous as well. Islam is far more ridiculous than Christianity in its mythological stories that it expects people to genuinely believe in. People's skin turning into bronze and their blood turning into molten metal in hell, djinni, Mohammed's bipolar and arbitrary rulings, etc.