I wish we had a Satanist around here...because I have honestly never heard someone who believes it, articulate those beliefs in a way which makes sense for anything other than a 'screw the world' statement in general.
If there is actually a coherent doctrine to that, I'd sure be curious someday to hear what that might be. It eludes me to imagine.
Detroit Michigan's Satanic temple is one of the largest in the Nation. With over 100 active members registered.
Satanist's claim atheism. They worship science. They, as Anton LaVey intended when he wrote it, feel The Satanic Bible is nothing more than a parody of the Christian religion - exposing it's hypocrisy and likeness of what they practice being more in line with the Devil. Rather than in line with the word of God or in acting like Christ.
They are the one strongest voices in the separation of religion and state.
They do not believe in spiritualism, god, or the devil - contrary to popular belief.
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I do not see satan in that statue - I see Cernunnos or Herne - The Horned God of the Woods. The whole idea behind Satan in 400ad with the Council of Nicaea - was so that the old gods could be demonized and help to force conversion.
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@wrabbit2000, Spyder's known Satanists. He can attest that those he's known are basically humanists. He used to practice Wicca himself (BTDT with BS claims against him) and had asked several why they don't just change the name to something humanist-oriented or neutral to avoid the negativity. Said the explanation he got was that it was funnier to watch the religious act like idiots over a name and some imagery. Image & name don't make the deeds so much as the people themselves, so they saw no need to alter those any, feeling that their positive impacts are what counts more.
Some groups of Satanists like to make a mockery out of the uber-religious. That's fine, it shows the world no matter what, it's all an image thing with them in the first place, not about any good done. Basically highlighting damned if you do, damned if you don't.