"We don't worship Satan, but we worship Satan."

[Arnox]

r/todayilearned - TIL Satanists do not literally worship Satan. They are closer to an Atheist religion, and believe Satan is a positive archetype demonstrating pride, individualism and enlightenment and use Satan as a symbol of defiance against Abrahamic faiths.

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Yes, you do. It's right in your damn name. Worship is much more than just bowing and prostrating yourself upon the ground. True worship entails full emulation of the being you are worshiping.

Look, I don't even care. If you're gonna worship Satan, just do it. Or if you're an atheist, just say it. Don't try to weasel out of things when your church is literally named the Church of Satan. You guys dug this hole, now lay in it. Or don't and find another religion. "Choose you this day whom ye will serve..."

By the way, some of your rules are equal parts awful and stupid.

 

[gaijinkaiju]

yeaah, some of those rules seem like they were written by an angsty teen, especially with phrases like 'lair', 'mating signal' and 'territory'

 

[Ogoid]

That's LaVeyan Satanism, right?

(I mean, it's the only kind that ever really existed in any organized capacity, but still.)

Yeah, not much more going on there than some half-baked Nietzscheanism coupled with a rather adolescent need to, like, stick it to those Christians, maaan. I doubt LaVey himself ever put too much theological and/or philosophical thought into it.

 

[Battousai]