Hebdo And The Copenhagen Shootings: A Comparative Analysis

The issues at hand are highly pressing issues currently in the world. Both Charlie Hebdo and The Copenhagen Shootings, have created a huge buzz in their respective regions and also internationally. The other issue being questioned in the world today is of RELIGION which is interrelated to the above mentioned issues and is one to which everything finally comes down to.
The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism as described in The Satanic Bible. The church does not believe in or worship a literal supernatural entity called Satan. High priest Peter Gilmore describes the members as "skeptical atheists", indicating Hebrew root of the word "Satan" as "opposer" or "one who questions". Moreover, the Church does not advocate any one political party or ideology; it also does not collectively lobby for any political ends. The Satanic philosophy positions itself in favor of certain concepts that have social and political connotations; one of which being Social Darwinism.The church opposes institutional racism and sexism, and supports equality before the law.
Now , the church being an atheist society completely is against religion of any sort.
As mentioned before , it believes in equality before law being completely against favoritism or religious activities of any sort. The church totally supports the freedom of speech and also the freedom of thought. The Church supports the editors of the Charlie Hebdo in terms of expressing their views on what they fell like but on the other hand the point to be noted is “ is it right on their part to be targeting Islam?” The church’s opinion is that it just wasn’t Islam being targeted but the magazine was satire of other issues as well. So after the reactions towards the satirical magazine do we still feel that anything such as FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT
EXIST?
On the issue of Copenhagen Shootings, The Church develops a strong concern over the way things are turning out to be. Just because of presence of Lars Viks because he was the cartoonist infamous for depicting Prophet Mohammed as a dog in his works and attacks leading to loss of life and injuries to the members present there. Moving on the church openly questions about how fair it was to attack only because someone in the presentation had presented a satire on a particular religion a few years ago? The shooting, as we know created a huge buzz internationally with comments made by big names around the world. So, did it have to be really become a big issue or could it be avoided? The church of Satan strongly believes that it could have easily been done so.
What is required in the world at large is equality in every possible sphere. Even if innumerable laws are made, religion is something, which separates one from another so the church tries its best to influence everyone to drop whichever religion, cast, or creed they belong to and join Satanism, which is, an atheist society.
There should be amendments made in the criminal and the penal system. Religious sentiments should not be taken into consideration at any cost as it leads to creating differences in the society, therefore, there remains no scope for inequality. Not only in the criminal and penal system but amendments should be made in every possible system to avoid inequality of any sort. The church strongly believes that by amendments, hurting of any religious sentiments would be harmed. Moreover, the society should adopt satanic views and question everything or oppose anything, which is unfair to any class, and lead the world close to the vision of equality.
The church believes that religion cannot be at any cost be used as a tool for peace. Being an atheist society we don’t believe in God, and promote equality, therefore, no religion can be considered to be a religion of peace or violence. It would be absolutely absurd to say this.
There should be a complete abolition of religious education, as it would mark differences amongst the people. There would be different teachings and preaching in every religion, which may also may in the extremist religious schools, create conflicts between two religions. The church puts emphasis on the fact that we do promote providing values to the students as a part of their learning program. The values included in the part of the education should be such that promote and instill the children with the mindset of equality, respect, opposing to what is wrong and most importantly with an atheist and satanic one.
There should also be no effect of religion in the political functioning of a state because all it would do is create problems rather than solving them out. There should be proper laws made to avoid interference of religious sentiments and any laws that are biased towards any religion should be abolished and adoption of satanic structure should take place. Moreover, religion should also not be used as a focal point in the campaign strategy of a political party.
In a nutshell, the church proposes that adoption of a satanic system is of utmost importance in today’s world.