Bob Thiel: Birthdays Are Satan

2013 2013 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WRH4fIIJ10s/UcZHUjQMo_I/AAAAAAAAOGU/wim953AKP34/s1600/satanday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WRH4fIIJ10s/UcZHUjQMo_I/AAAAAAAAOGU/wim953AKP34/s320/satanday.jpg" title=" " width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Bob Thiel still is struggling to find everything in life one pagan festival after another.&nbsp; Thiel is hyperventilating over the connection he sees with birthdays&nbsp; and Anton Lavey's <i>Satanic Bible</i>.&nbsp; Because Lavey mentions birthdays Thiel assumes that the rest of humanity is sitting there worshiping Satan as they light the birthday candles.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Back in 1969 Anton Lavey wrote <i>The Satanic Bible</i>. On page 96 (in the 1976 version) it mentions birthdays:<br /><blockquote>THE highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birth. This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried.</blockquote><br /><blockquote>The Satanist feels: “Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in your image, why not create that god as yourself.” Every man is a god if he chooses to recognize himself as one. So, the Satanist celebrates his own birthday as the most important holiday of the year. After all, aren’t you happier about the fact that you were born than you are about the birth of someone you have never even met? Or for that matter, aside from religious holidays, why pay higher tribute to the birthday of a president or to a date in history than we do to the day we were brought into this greatest of all worlds?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht and Halloween (or All Hallows’ Eve). (Lavey A, Gilmore P. The Satanic Bible. Avon, September 1, 1976, p. 96–note it is on page 53 of an online version I found also).</blockquote></blockquote><br />Bob then has to drag his perception of what he thinks the Bible says about it:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Bible never encourages the celebration of birthdays. Instead, it tends to speak in a negative manner concerning them (cf. Matthew 14:6-11; Jeremiah 20:14-18).<br />Of course, early Christians did not celebrate birthdays nor did the early Jews. Nor have real Christians ever celebrated Halloween. As far as the Jews, notice what the first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that Jewish families did not celebrate birthdays:<br /><blockquote>Nay, indeed, the law does not permit us to make festivals at the birth of our children, and thereby afford occasion of drinking to excess (Josephus<i>. </i>Translated by W. Whiston. <i>Against Apion</i>, Book II, Chapter 26. Extracted from Josephus Complete Works, Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids (MI), 14th printing, 1977, p. 632).</blockquote></blockquote>Then Bob has to admit that there is NO prohibition in the Bible against birthdays.&nbsp; In spite of that, he dances around and says that birthdays should not be observed.&nbsp; Just because he can find no reference to an early Christian observing one, does not mean that they didn't.&nbsp; There are a lot of things the Bible does not record about the early Christians.&nbsp; Just because it is not there does not mean they never did it.&nbsp; The Bible is NOT a history book, when will Bob ever realize that?<br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WRH4fIIJ10s/UcZHUjQMo_I/AAAAAAAAOGU/wim953AKP34/s1600/satanday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WRH4fIIJ10s/UcZHUjQMo_I/AAAAAAAAOGU/wim953AKP34/s320/satanday.jpg" title=" " width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Bob Thiel still is struggling to find everything in life one pagan festival after another.&nbsp; Thiel is hyperventilating over the connection he sees with birthdays&nbsp; and Anton Lavey's <i>Satanic Bible</i>.&nbsp; Because Lavey mentions birthdays Thiel assumes that the rest of humanity is sitting there worshiping Satan as they light the birthday candles.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Back in 1969 Anton Lavey wrote <i>The Satanic Bible</i>. On page 96 (in the 1976 version) it mentions birthdays:<br /><blockquote>THE highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birth. This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried.</blockquote><br /><blockquote>The Satanist feels: “Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in your image, why not create that god as yourself.” Every man is a god if he chooses to recognize himself as one. So, the Satanist celebrates his own birthday as the most important holiday of the year. After all, aren’t you happier about the fact that you were born than you are about the birth of someone you have never even met? Or for that matter, aside from religious holidays, why pay higher tribute to the birthday of a president or to a date in history than we do to the day we were brought into this greatest of all worlds?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht and Halloween (or All Hallows’ Eve). (Lavey A, Gilmore P. The Satanic Bible. Avon, September 1, 1976, p. 96–note it is on page 53 of an online version I found also).</blockquote></blockquote><br />Bob then has to drag his perception of what he thinks the Bible says about it:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Bible never encourages the celebration of birthdays. Instead, it tends to speak in a negative manner concerning them (cf. Matthew 14:6-11; Jeremiah 20:14-18).<br />Of course, early Christians did not celebrate birthdays nor did the early Jews. Nor have real Christians ever celebrated Halloween. As far as the Jews, notice what the first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that Jewish families did not celebrate birthdays:<br /><blockquote>Nay, indeed, the law does not permit us to make festivals at the birth of our children, and thereby afford occasion of drinking to excess (Josephus<i>. </i>Translated by W. Whiston. <i>Against Apion</i>, Book II, Chapter 26. Extracted from Josephus Complete Works, Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids (MI), 14th printing, 1977, p. 632).</blockquote></blockquote>Then Bob has to admit that there is NO prohibition in the Bible against birthdays.&nbsp; In spite of that, he dances around and says that birthdays should not be observed.&nbsp; Just because he can find no reference to an early Christian observing one, does not mean that they didn't.&nbsp; There are a lot of things the Bible does not record about the early Christians.&nbsp; Just because it is not there does not mean they never did it.&nbsp; The Bible is NOT a history book, when will Bob ever realize that?<br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>