To Hell with Satan

by Raymond Fontaine, March 2007

Email no. 208: A Cry for Help.

Hi! from a troubled soul. I was born and bred in Satanism by a fanatic father. He showed me where the Bible presents Satan as a very real being. He converses with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. When I first mentioned a doubt about Satan, my father reacted like a crazed person. How dare I disbelieve the Bible - the word of God.

Secretly I continued to read and reread the Bible and the Gospels. I couldn't shake off the reality or probability of Satan's existence. I also read the rabid literature of convinced Satanist writers.

The resulting conflict in my mind for several years eventually took its toll. Professionals on the matter called it "anxiety disorder". It is a disabling disease.

In this condition, I searched the Internet for relief. Fortunately I found a possible way out of my misery on the website of the World Union of Deists. But I still need help. Please come to my rescue. Hopefully yours, David.

Email no. 209: I Answer the Call

Greetings from someone who, like you, heard about Satan from his father at home and from the nuns in school and later from the priests in Church. All repeated to me what the Catholic Church teaches.

I believed the Pope for many years because the Church in Council declared him infallible when teaching dogmas. During that time, Satan did not bother me because I held him at bay with holy water. What baloney!

I believed the Church until I saw the suffering caused by the Church's stubborn stand against birth control and divorce and its irrational imposition of celibacy upon its priests.

Upon thorough research on these moral issues, I realized that the Church was wrong - dead wrong. If the Church failed only once in its teaching, it was not infallible. Its credibility crumbled.

But I still believed in the Creator of the universe. He left His mark in the intelligent designs and structures in nature. They required and presupposed Supreme Intelligence. When I saw that, the chimera of Satan vanished from my mind and life. I wasted no more time on Satan. I was finished with him.  

I highly recommend that you do the same. That may be difficult at first because the thoughts of this nonexistent monster has troubled your mind. Replace thoughts of this Biblical slithering snake with benign thoughts of Nature's God. Take an interest in the marvels of nature. Once more: To hell with Satan. Wishing you well, Ray. 

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