"Anton Szandor LaVey - The Satanic Bible" - читать интересную книгу автора (LaVey Anton Szandor)

the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted - no standard of
measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like
the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has
made, man can destroy! He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of
great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all
unwisdom. The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to determine
its liberties, to lead it towards material success - to rend the rusty padlocks
and chains of dead custom that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and
ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now
mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us! As environments change, no human
ideal standeth sure! Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne,
let it be assailed without pity and without regret, for under the domination of
an inconvenient falsehood, no one can prosper. Let established sophisms be
dethroned, rooted out, burnt and destroyed, for they are a standing menace to
all true nobility of thought and action! Whatever alleged "truth" is proven by
results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the
outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other
useless lumber and wreckage! The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the
holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie - the lie everyone believes to be a
model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and
delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. It is a
social cancer! The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the
lie that even intelligent persons accept as fact - the lie that has been
inculcated in a little child at its mother's knee - is more dangerous to contend
against than a creeping pestilence! Popular lies have ever been the most potent
enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them
out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch.
Annihilate them, or they will us!

THE BOOK OF SATAN

II Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a
tree. I question all things. As I stand before the festering and varnished
facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing
scorn: Lo and behold; all this is fraud! Gather around me, Oh! ye
death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold! Too
long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought! Too long
right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets! No creed
must be accepted upon authority of a "divine" nature. Religions must be put to
the question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted - no standard of
measurement deified. There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like
the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has
made, man can destroy! He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of
great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all
unwisdom. The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to determine
its liberties, to lead it towards material success - to rend the rusty padlocks
and chains of dead custom that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and
ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now
mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us! As environments change, no human
ideal standeth sure! Whenever, therefore, a lie has built unto itself a throne,