You should qualify statements like that. It might prevent you from displaying your lack of knowledge as in your following comment listed below.



Far from it. It always saddens me when people make assumptions rather than an attempt to know what they are talking about. Saying Laveyan Satanists worship "The Devil", for example, is like wearing a teeshirt that says "I have no idea what I'm talking about." Satan is just a word. If I wrote a song entitled 'The Color Blue', only the basest Neanderthal would assume my song is actually about the color blue without delving further to find out first if that's really what I'm talking about or if maybe, just maybe, it has deeper (even unrelated) connotation. The setting of the play The Crucible was the 1600's Salem Witch Hunt but any intellectually honest person will stop to realize it's not about witches or the 1600's at all but the McCarthy Trials, for example.

It's always easier to ridicule and chastise others when we know nothing about them, when we fall victim to generalizations and labels. I genuinely hope people think that because I am a Celtic Pagan I wear horned helmets, frolic naked in the woods and howl at the moon. Because those who do so without bothering to take two seconds to find out the truth have already paraded their own ignorance. The joke's on them in cases such as these.