Lil. if it's not Holy Sovereign God's worship, then they are automatically against Him in the first place, so they either worship the devil regardless, or themselves'. Period.
During the last several decades of the 20Th century, most public Satanists were only symbolic Satanists. That is, they did not literally believe in or worship Satan. Instead, they regarded Satan as only a symbol of various desirable qualities such as independence, individuality, and strength. Many were atheists.
A theistic Satanist, also known as a "traditional Satanist," "spiritual Satanist," or "Devil Worshiper," is one who does believe in and worship Satan as a deity, or who at least is strongly inclined in that direction. When this website first went on line in fall 2002 C.E, we theistic Satanists were still a despised minority within the public Satanist scene. But we have grown rapidly and now seem to be the majority -- at least in on line forums, though we still have some catching up to do in terms of real-world organization and in terms of being noticed by scholars of new religions.
From 1969 C.E. until very recently, most Satanists' first exposure to Satanism was via Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible. Hence, the vast majority of Satanists were LaVeyans or some fairly close variant thereof. However, beginning in the 1990's, more and more people's first exposure to Satanism has been via the Internet, allowing a wide variety of non-LaVeyan Satanisms to flourish - mostly theistic Satanisms, but also including some non-LaVey-based atheistic symbolic Satanisms as well.
Well Christians are typically irrational and ignorant people...i mean they're Christian...hello? The believe in talking snakes and impossible floods and parting seas and walking on water. They believe a dude who died 2,000 years ago not only came back to life but that he will come back again and save them all.
(If you don't believe these things you're not really Christian so don't take offense)
Also, I don't think many people really know all that much about Satanism. I'm pretty well informed about the big religions (and yes I was being harsh with the fun dies but they are so rude most of the time that they really deserve it) but I don't know much about Satanism either. I'll research it when I get a minute.
From what I've read, they are pretty much the same, but I have to admit that I didn't have the slightest clue what the basic tenets of the religion were until you forced me to acknowledge my ignorance of the subject and look it up. The only real differences that I noted were between "Theistic Satanism" and "LaVeyan Satanism";in that Theistic Satanism actually involves worshiping Satan as a Deity, where LaVeyan Satanism does not actually worship ANY Deity.
Interesting question, though. I like to learn about religions, whether or not I believe that I would like to subscribe to the ideals.
Satanism is not a Christian invention
Satanism predates Christianity and all other religions
Satanism is not about spooks, goblins, vampires, Halloween monsters or other related entities
Satanism is not about "evil"
Satanism is not an invention of, or a "reaction" to Christianity
Satanism is not a creation of Anton LaVey
Satanism is not about death
True Satanism is about elevating and empowering humanity to reach equality with the Gods, which was our True Creator (Satan's) intention
"IN THE SECRET OF MY KNOWLEDGE THERE IS NO GOD BUT ME"
-SATAN
From "Peace Be Unto Him"
Due to centuries of misinformation, lies, and the systematic removal of knowledge, few people these days understand or even know what ?Satanism? really is all about.
Christianity has been at liberty to dictate without any opposition, what they CLAIM Satanism to be. In order to accomplish this, the truth had to be destroyed. The Catholic Church (the original Christian Church, from which all Christian sects have evolved), heinously tortured to death and mass-murdered millions of innocent men, women and children in what was known as "The Inquisition." Some children who were burnt to death in what were known as "witch houses" were as young as two years of age.?
Christians forever rant and rave concerning the "one world order" where all identities, cultures, personal privacy's, and liberties will be lost and humanity, after being systematically bar-coded, will be lumped into a one-world slave state. What they fail to see is how their own so-called "religion" and bible have always been and are the roots of and blueprint for this regime. Everything in the Judeo/Christian Bible has been stolen and corrupted from religions predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from hundreds to thousands of years. Through Judaism and its tool of Christianity, all of the original spiritual teachings from around the world, (which are CONCEPTS) have been stolen from, lumped together into the "one," and corrupted into Jewish archetypes and characters and fictitious places. This has given the Jewish people as a whole a false history, political power and "spiritual" authority to which they are not entitled.
The bible is a very powerful subliminal tool to control the masses. One can see this is a man-made work as there are endless contradictions. The bible has been systematically drummed into the minds of the populace from a very early age. A lie must always be enforced as opposed to the truth which can stand on its own. Because spiritual knowledge and occult power have been removed and kept in the hands of a "chosen" few, the unknowing populace has been helpless against it. The agenda here is to create a one-world slave state with the "chosen" few ruling at the top. The perpetrators of course blame Satan to create a necessary distraction, while they use occult power to accomplish their ends. They have a history of stealing from and blaming their enemies for everything they really are and do, while always holding themselves in the highest esteem and innocence.
The original religions now known as "Satanism" (by the way, "Satan" means "enemy" in Hebrew), were all based upon what is known as the "Magnum Opus" or Great Work. The one known as "Satan" is our True Creator God. He was prevented by the other Gods from finishing his work on humanity, that of the godhead. The godhead is physical and spiritual perfection. Now, if you continue to read on, I will prove this.
The serpent is seen everywhere in ancient relics and structures. The serpent was held sacred in all areas of the ancient world. Satan is the God Ea, aka ENKI, one of the first of the Nephilim to arrive on this planet and establish the first civilization. In Sumerian mythology, Enki's symbol was always the serpent
To Don D and everyone reading Don D's post yes what he says is very true but the link doesn't work this is the link if anyone is interested http://www.freewebs.com/eridu666/Origins.html
and Satanism is a wonderful life loving religion. The truth is that Christianity is a population control program to keep everyone in the dark about the truth about Father Satan and the powers of the mind
Christianity was invented to remove spiritual and occult knowledge (the powers of the mind) from the populace and place this power in the hands of a "chosen" few to the detriment of all humanity. The powers of the mind and soul are very real. People who are unaware of or who do not believe in these powers are easy to control and manipulate by those who are skilled in using these energies. So they are being manipulated is the reason and even though they don't know it the subconscious programming causes them to put up a defense as soon as Satanism is mentioned. Satan and Satanism is nothing like what the Christians say but subconsciously they are scared of the truth
Why are Christians unable to differentiate between Theistic Satanism and Devil worshi
