Jesus people, can you articulate your problems with the Light-Bringer?
1. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
2. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
3. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
4. The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
5. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
6. People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
7. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
I think we all agree that there is a fight between Good and Evil.
I sometimes wonder if I can tell the difference anymore
We wuz poor, we didn’t have no After School Satan Club. Effin’ kids are coddled today.
3. One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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Sounds too much like an argument that pro abort liberals might make.
The first problem is that the Satan club's tenets sound nice, but they have no intention of upholding them. It's like Google's code of conduct, "Don't be evil." Look where that has gone. Or the ACLU, which started out announcing its high intentions, but only defends the civil liberties of lefty revolutionaries once well established.
The other problem is that this club is not based on a solid public good with its own scripture reflecting those tenets, but rather is a derivative of a valid religion, and is named after a figure who is openly opposed to that religion. It would be like having a club called the "Anti-M*h*mmed Club," or even the "Anti Moses Jesus" club.