re: #109 Targetpractice

We’re in the realm of total pretzel logic that says that disbelief in Satan and Hell is itself proof that they exist and that any who express such disbelief instead secretly minions who are attempting to lure the faithful from the righteous path. After all, these are the same nutters who insist that atheism/agnosticism are themselves religions because those who follow express “belief” that God doesn’t exist and thus are guilty of being believers in a false theology.

That pretzel logic has existed as long as Christianity was aware of atheists existing in their spaces. Satan is ofttimes ascribed to anything a Christian doesn’t understand (hence why people with epilepsy or other disabilities have been demonised by Christians as long as the religion has existed). The Satanic Panic of the Eighties and again now is an extension of the same: Accusing anything you don’t understand as being satanic.