The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger,
gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they
W all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.
9 A Satanist knows there is nothing wrong with being greedy, as it only means that he
\ wants more than he already has. Envy means to look with favor upon the possessions
J of others, and to be desirous of obtaining similar things for oneself. Envy and greed are
the motivating forces of ambition - and without ambition, very lMe of any importance
would be accomplished.
Gluttony is simply eating more than you need to keep yourself alive. When you have
overeaten to the point of obesity, another sin - pride - will motivate you to regain an
appearance that will renew your self-respect.
Anyone who buys an article of clothing for a purpose other than covering his body and
protecting it from the elements is guilty of pride. Satanists often encounter scoffers who
maintain that labels are not necessary. It must be pointed out to these destroyers of labels that
one or many articles they themselves are wearing are not wearing are not necessary to keep
them warm. There is not a person on this earth who is completely devoid of ornamentation.
The Satanist points out that any ornamentation of the scoffer's body shows that he, too, is
guilty of pride. Regardless of how verbose the cynic may be in his intellectual description of
how free he is, he is still wearing the elements of pride.
Being reluctant to get up in the morning is to be guilty of sloth, and if you he in bed long
enough you may find yourself committing yet another sin - lust. To have the faintest stirring of
sexual desire is to be guilty of lust. In order to insure the propagation of humanity, nature
made lust the second most powerful instinct, the first being self-preservation. Realizing this,
the Christian Church made fornication the "Original Sin". In this way they made sure no one
would escape sin. Your very state of being is as a result of sin - the Original sin!
The strongest instinct in every living thing is self-preservation, which brings us to the last of
the seven deadly sins - anger. Is it not our instinct for self-preservation that is aroused when
someone harms us, when we become angry enough to protect ourselves from further attack?
A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!"
Let no wrong go unredressed. Be as a lion in the path - be dangerous even in defeat!
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If
everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there. Heaven must be populated
with some rather strange creatures if they all lived for was to go to a place where they can
strum harps for eternity.
"Times have changed. Religious leaders no longer preach that all our natural actions are
sinful. We no longer think sex is dirty - or that taking pride in ourselves is shameful - or that
wanting something someone else has is vicious." Of course not, times have changed! "If you
want proof of this, just look at how liberal churches have become. Why, they're practicing all
the things that you preach."
Satanists hear these, and similar statements, all the time; and they agree wholeheartedly, but,
if the world has changed so much, why continue to grasp at the threads of a dying faith? If
many religions are denying their own scriptures because they are out of date, and are
preaching the philosophies of Satanism, why not call it by its rightful name - Satanism?
Certainly it would be far less hypocritical.
In recent years there has been an attempt to humanize the spiritual concept of Christianity.
This has manifested itself in the most obvious non- spiritual means. Masses which had been
said in Latin are now said in native languages - which only succeeds in making the nonsense
easier to understand, and at the same time robs the ceremony of the esoteric nature which is
consistent with the tenets of the dogma. It is much simpler to obtain an emotional reaction
using words and phrases that cannot be understood than it is with statements which even the
simplest mind will question when hearing them in an understandable language.
