XPost: alt.christnet.theology, alt.christnet.demonology, alt.religion
XPost: alt.religion.christianity, alt.christnet.satanism
From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:23:02 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:52:34 -0700, Paul S Person
> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:19:42 +0200, Steve Hayes
>> wrote:
>
>>>Aye, but the original source material is what you would need to
>>>consider if you were trying to find out whether Satanism preceded
>>>Christianity.
>>
>>It occurred to me that I don't know what you are actually looking for:
>
>Well the original question on Quora was "did Satanism predate
>Christianity?"
>
>And my answer was No, I thought it onlt appeared about the
>Renaissance, and wasn't aware of any evidedence before that,
>
>So my question here was whether anyone was aware of any evidence for
>Satanisn before the Renaissance.
>>2. Just because some ancient author /says/ so-and-so worshipped Satan
>>doesn't mean they actually did. And finding documentary evidence for
>>/actual/ Satanism may not be easy: not only would any documents have
>>most likely been burned by the Church (or scraped clean and reused by
>>the Monks), but it is not clear that there would be any to begin with.
>
>But even knowing that some ancient autgher said it would mean that the
>concept was there
OK, then try this on: (/Satan/, op cit, p 81) Iranaeus "The Devil ...
tries to persuade us to worship him".
Since the name doesn't matter, is this close enough to establish the
/concept/ of "Satanism" ("worship of the Devil") as existing prior to
200 AD?
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