Nope. Not a form of giving up at all.Whyhaveyouforsakenme wrote:I always thought that Satanist embraced their inner "Evil" saying it is impossible and futile to avoid it is that not a form of giving up?
Think about it logically. If Satanists had all, collectively, given up, then why would Christians see them as such a threat?
First of all Kant was a Christian who lived in Prussia during the time of the Holy Roman Empire.Whyhaveyouforsakenme wrote:I never said you were a Satanist and even if you doubt the existence of god or do not believe in him you just have to look at the Kantian ethics.
Immanuel Kant said that every person has a moral duty to do what he thinks is right and what your conscience tells you to do.
Every man has this conscience so why not listen to it ?
Secondly and subject to the first point, his arguments are born of that same cuturally Christian context. In fact, I don't understand how you can even draw ethics or morality into the discussion when they are both cultural constructs that vary so widely from culture to culture.
How can you say that? Psychopaths by definition have no conscience. Are you not aware of what just happened at that Public School in the States?Whyhaveyouforsakenme wrote:Every man has this conscience so why not listen to it ?
Egads, Man! What about Native Residential Schools? During the 19th and 20th centuries here in Canada, as part of our good Christian government's efforts to 'civilize' our Indigenous population, the children of native families who were living in poverty on the Reservations were taken away from their parents by the government, and put into Church-run boarding schools. There they were 're-educated', forbidden to speak their own languages and follow their own spirituality. They were forced to wear western dress and adopt the Christian faith. If you do a search on the web you will find that in recent years much more has come to light through law suites; about how the native children were raped, beaten, tortured physically and emotionally by the Christian fathers who were supposed to be raising them. Not just a few, either, but cases numbering in the hundreds; and, not just one school, but an entire system over a period of decades.
How can you speak of Kantian ethics?