brightestandbest:

My Response to Pascal’s Wager

You’ve probably heard of Pascal’s Wager. It’s the argument that it’s better to hedge your bets and believe in God. If there is no God you lose little by believing, if there is a God you gain an eternity in heaven.

Here’s my response as a theistic Satanist.

My question is not so much whether God exists as whether God is good.

I believe God is not good, and that the Devil is. I chose to live by my values, which are opposed to God, rather than submit to His rules.

If I am right, then I shall have a lifetime of freedom and an eternity of freedom after.

If I am wrong and God is good and the Devil is just leading me into damnation… well, at least I will have lived a human lifetime of freedom and adherence to my own ethics before that.

If I were to submit to God’s rule, then I would have a lifetime of obedience and an eternity of more obedience after. No freedom, ever.

Either way, freedom is guaranteed only by defiance against God. If I am wrong and destined to burn, then at least I will have tasted liberty for a short time in life. If I am right, the I will be free forever.

I choose to gamble with my soul in exchange for freedom.

Also because I specifically ethically oppose god, I also choose hell on principal

stormbornwitch:

witchcraftway:

the-wiccans-glossary:

Reblog/like this if you’re a witch over 20.

I love younger witches and am happy to help, but I’m looking to find some older friends. 🌑🌕

21 over here

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brightestandbest:

I haven’t talked about my academic ambitions on this blog before, because my hopes and dreams seemed so fragile that I hardly dared to speak of them. But now they are becoming real. I just submitted my application. 

I genuinely would appreciate your thoughts, prayers and spells so much right now. I want this so badly. This is an opportunity for me to really focus on my religious studies in an academic setting and gain practical tools for ministry and church administration. As far as I know I might be the first Satanist to attend any seminary openly, period, and if I am accepted I certainly will be the first at this particular institution. 

My chances look pretty good right now– fingers crossed. When I visited campus I found the community to be incredibly open and welcoming to me, and everybody, even the Christians, were excited about me and interested in me rather than suspicious. It’s a wonderful school. The library is my idea of heaven (or hell, haha). I’ve never wanted anything this badly in my life. 

This is the first step towards my dream of founding a theistic Satanic church in my area, and also of helping to raise the intellectual/academic standard of Satanism. In my own small way, I hope to help blaze a trail. 

I am filled with love and gratitude towards the infernal Gods and towards my Satanic community right now. It is this love and gratitude that motivates me to pursue a Master of Divinity. 

I really hope I’ll be able to tell you all, soon, that I have been accepted and will be starting school in Spring. 

Hold me, Satan. I am so excited. 

❤ I am SO proud of you, baby. You are going to be a brilliant minister.

perseusjackson-sonoftheseagod:

I’m an absolute sucker for the full makeover trope in movies and books where the character goes from “I haven’t brushed my hair in three days to, my hair has highlights and perfect curls”
So I need ideas on how to make this nontoxic and fun rather than “the only way people are going to like you is if you conform to societal beauty standards”
Hit me with them people, I need a winner over here!!

I mean… as a trans person “Oh I haven’t been taking care of my appearance at all because I am DYSPHORIC AF” is a thing?