[danielmryan]

This one makes for a curiosity. The standard complaint about Rand is that she was too moralistic. She did transpose "Judge not, lest ye be judged" into "Judge, and prepare to be judged." She also came up with a defense of black-and-white thinking in morals, saying that grey areas were compositions of black and white elements. She went out of her way to say that letting evil hide in the gray areas through non-judgmentalism only makes evil grow.

I find it hard to reconcile Rand's moralistic streak - obvious in her non-fiction writings, particularly her later ones - with the claim that Rand was a proto-Satanist. Don't Satanists want to obliterate all moral judgments?

[harmonium]

“Don’t Satanists want to obliterate all moral judgments? “

I think that’s the Christian view of the Biblical concept, but it doesn’t really reflect in the junk LaVey compiled.

He believed in judgement and morals, in cases of revenge. An “eye for an eye” was big in his crowd. A lot of it was based around some survival of the fittest, Individualist thing.

[allmendream]

“”Do as thou will” shall be the whole of the law.” Satanism creed.

Don’t see any similarity between that and a materialistic and moral based philosophy on the proper economic balance between the individual and the State.

[chesley]

I guess that a distinction must be made between Satan, the person, and Satanism, the religion. I find that many of Rand's ideas are incompatible with Christianity as I understand it.

Which doesn’t mean that she isn't right about other ideas.

However Satan can use anything that isn't what God wants. Islam, socialism, nationalism and internationalism, yoga, even.

Some of the things Satan uses may be neutral in themselves, but if they are not used to the greater glory of God, then there is the danger that they are being used by Satan

[mas cerveza por favor]

Don't Satanists want to obliterate all moral judgments?

For themselves, yes, but Satanism is a con game strategy. The primary method of their con is to impose a false morality on others.