I want to know why Islam has been so successful, seemingly more so than any other modern religion, in convincing people to abandon this world for some other world and to construct what remains of them in this life around what awaits them in the next. I would know, is this truly what Muhammad intended? As much as I have fallen in love with the mystical Sufi poetry of Rumi and Hafez, and as much as I respect Islam’s singularity of vision, I see this religion as one of the greatest fonts of nihilism in the modern world. Is this nihilism reflected in the religion’s sacred texts? Are these texts misunderstood and misrepresented in Islam as Christian and Jewish texts are in their respective religions?
Month: May 2019
A Satanist’s Reading List
Since I’m on vacation this week, I was originally planning that this would be this week’s post in lieu of an actual research piece, but I ended up getting my story on Islam done early, so consider this bonus content.
Satanism, the Self, and Ego Death
What is the ego? What is the self? How is it that we can gratify, intensify, or encourage the self without knowing and understanding what it is?
Lovecraft, Nietzsche, and the Satanism of Cosmic Horror
A mistake to which I think that I am especially prone is that I anthropomorphize the universe, turning its grandeur into something altogether human.
A Satanist Makes a Patreon Page
I started A Satanist Reads the Bible last November with the aim of consolidating and fleshing out some of the ideas I had been developing about religion over the last couple years. It’s grown from that into an entirely new way of exploring and understanding religion, and of forging my own spiritual path. I typically…
Apocalypse
The New Testament Book of Revelation is one of the most distinct and bizarre books of the entire Bible, and I think that its writer was saying the same things about what was to come that I had learned from both my Christians teachers and from history.
Satanic Meditations on Nietzsche
In this series, I’ll be looking at selections from Nietzsche’s extensive body of writing and considering them in the context of modern Satanism.