>call yourselves satanists>actually atheistic and explicitly does not believe in a supernatural SatanWhat's the point? Just call yourself an atheist. The concept of Satanism is almost attractive if you spin it as a rigid individualist philosophy, preaching that Lucifer's rebellion against God was actually a noble endeavor for standing up against an all-powerful tyrannical being. I get this is what they're going for but it still seems a little larpy.
>>18754262>>actually atheistic and explicitly does not believe in a supernatural Satanthats a trick by LaVey, dumbass>what?Satanists get secular hedonists to engage in Satanic rituals telling them "dont worry, its just a prank. None of this Satanic imagery means anything haha" but one of the core doctrines of Satanism is deception and trickery.
>>18754262>What's the point? PR resulting from boundless Christian seething and cool aesthetics, obviously. > Just call yourself an atheist. Atheism doesn't actually imply any beliefs other than Atheism. An atheist could a Neo-Nazi member of the creativity movement, a communist, a liberal humanist, believe in polygamy, whatever. Plus you miss on the PR and aesthetics.>I get this is what they're going for but it still seems a little larpy.It is.
>>18754273See >>18754266 this guy is the type of person the branding is supposed to send into a nuclear fit.
>>18754276>See this guy gets annoyed at blatantly evil hedonists that do demon worship>.... um>thats so bad and cringe!
>>18754262My first girlfriend in college a decade ago was a LaVey Satanist. She was predictably a hedonistic narcissist.
>>18754277I never said it was 'bad', I said their branding (I.E, their aping of your own mythology/aesthetic of ultimate evil) is supposed to, and does, throw you into hysterics.Whether you or I am correct is technically unfalsifiable.
>>18754282"LaVey is not a real Satanist. He was actually atheist. ">..."Actually, LaVey was just lying about that and got people to unknowingly engage in Satanic demon summoning rituals">YOU FELL FOR THE PR MARKETING!>HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A SUCKER?>Now go back to repeating the fact that only LaVey claims is true or ill say you fell for PR Marketing again.
>>18754287>YOU ARE SCREAMING >but I'm le heckin' calm and reasonable >CAN'T YOU TELL BY MY EMOTIONALLY CHARGED POSTING STYLE
To not believe in God is to believe in Satan, even if you specifically don't believe in (a) Satan. Atheism is Satanic because Satan=Not (of) God
It's worse than that. LaVeyan Satanism was originally:>Atheism and anti-theism >Rugged individualist, everyone for themselves, Darwinist lolbertarian politics (LaVey was a massive Ayn Rand fanboy)>A belief in "magic" (where by magic just refers to psychological manipulation)>Obsession with gothic / fetish / victorian fashion and sexI say "was", because now it's just stupid a money making scheme.They sell cheap plastic membership cards and pieces or paper via their website for exorbitant fees, which say you're a certified member or priest/ess of the Church.They also occasionally get really butthurt and claim they're the only real Satanists and all the others are fakes.
>>18754306Satan was quite literally not opposed to God, but of God. It's just the generic Hebrew word for "adversary", and when haSatan is mentioned in the Bible it's just refering to some official in God's court whose role is to challenge people.The notion of a Devil figure is some shit imported from European paganism, or rather the demonisation of Pagan gods as demons. There's a reason he's often portrayed looking like the Greek God Pan.Unfortunately Christians are too historically and theologically illiterate and obtuse to understand and/or accept the facts.
>>18754262For most of the last 2k years, Talmud jew religion was considered Satanism. Jews recently invented fake Satanism to distract from their own real Satanism.
If anything, maybe satanism is real considering how hot Zeena Lavey looks in comparison with her ugly ass dad
>>18754262>drink blood>eat Jewsus' corpseTheyre early christians.
>>18754262>explicitly does not believe in a supernatural SatanThat's not an entirely accurate statement.
>>18754262Regular reminder that LaVey had throat cancer and couldn't speak for months prior to his death, so anyone who says he screamed out something about seeing/being in hell moments before dying is lying directly to your face and is condemning themselves in the process.
