What is Satanic culture?
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Satanism is a Catholic coined term for hedonists in order to pin them as pagans. Hedonism is pretty much just the idea that everyone should do what they want when they want.
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Yes, actually, I believe I do. If I remember correctly, they are part some kind of secret society of very wealthy people such as the Rothchilds, who worship satan and stuff like that. There are some political implications and the demonic influences are involved, but that's about all I can remember of what I have read about them.
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A cult is not a religion, but an aspect or character of a religion.\n\nCult expert Carol Giambalvo quotes from psychologists West & Langone, who give the following definition: \n\n"A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, Information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc.) designed to advance the goals of the group's leaders to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community." (West & Langone. 1986).\n\nWhy are Cults a Problem?\nGod has given everyone a free will. Cults by their manipulative techniques, weaken a person's will. \n\nCults are a danger to their members because: \nCults create a dependency that gets harder to break the longer one is associated with the cult. Proof of this is that once someone has been removed from the cult, and has been told how dangerous it is, they will fight to return to the cult, because they feel "safe" there. \nCult members can be asked to do anything to themselves, and will even commit suicide to please the cult leader. \n\nCults are a danger to people outside the cult because: \nCult members can be asked to do anything to others, and will commit any crime, including murder and robbery, to please the cult leader. \nThus cults are a menace to everyone, even those who are not cult members.\n\nCultism is completely at odds with Christianity. A cult can claim the name "Christian" (like the Children of God from the 70's) but that doesn t mean it is.
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None of them.  The one closest to true human nature and what we are like is The Satanic Bible by Anton LeVey.  And NO I'm not a satanist!
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i suggest getting the book called "Lucifer rising" it is all about mainly Satanism and how it had the effect ont he beginning of "Black Metal". very good book. has interviews with some black metal bands in it as well. Also has infoa nd articles on Anton Lavey, Aleister Crowley..etc..
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it is you should buy the satanic bible. i just got it and it has opened me up to so much more you don't have to believe in every thing that is in it you can kinda just mix and much your own religion.\ngood luck
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I think some of the Gothics do summon Devil, we call them Satanists also.
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I am an atheist and a Satanist.\n\nModern Satanism, or LaVey Satanism, is NOT devil worship like so many have a tendancy to believe.\n\nMost of us are atheists; we don't believe in the christian devil. We believe in ourselves. Every human is their own god, they are free to accept it or not.\n\nWe are animals, sometimes better, oftentimes worse than the ones who walk on all fours, and we have carnal instincts.\n\nThe Satanist philosophy is based a lot on hedonism, and on Nietzsche's texts.\n\nAnton Szandor LaVey, the father of modern Satanism, wrote The Satanic Bible, and many other books.\n\nThere are many principles to Satanism, all of them based on common sense and logic.\n\nThese are the Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth:\n\n1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked. \n\n2. Do not tell your troubles to others unless you are sure they want to hear them. \n\n3. When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there. \n\n4. If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy. \n\n5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal. \n\n6. Do not take that which does not belong to you unless it is a burden to the other person and he cries out to be relieved. \n\n7. Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained. \n\n8. Do not complain about anything to which you need not subject yourself. \n\n9. Do not harm little children. \n\n10. Do not kill non-human animals unless you are attacked or for your food. \n\n11. When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. \n\nThere are more principles to it, but it's too long to explain. Please visit the official Church Of Satan website (Anton Szandor LaVey founded the Church Of Satan in 1966) for further information.\n\nhttp://www.churchofsatan.com
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From what I have heard from a Satanist is they believe in God but they choose Satan, because they are promised by satan position in hell.
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Satanism exists in Mauritius and all over the world.
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The role of the Holy Spirit is to teach and to uplift you, the role of the satanic spirit is to degrade and destroy your soul. Watch out.
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So far, all that is written on here is bs.  Gothic culture has no set rules or code.  But basically, real goths (not teenagers) belive that the best way to live life is not by ingoring the negitive things in life, such as pain and death, but accept them.  However, contrary to what is often percieved, goths find to best way to accept these horrors is to live life to it's fullests, laughing at all the b.s. that comes their way, and trying to get a complete picture of the world around them.\n\nMany goths are Christians, many are agnostic, and many are atheists.  In all my years, I've never met or heard of an acctual goth Satanist.  Another myth is that they are into self mutilation or are outwardly violent.  This sterotype was created by the angst-ridden teenagers that dress in the gothic manner.  They are not representative of adults who adopt the gothic lifestyle.  Many of them are depressed, yes, but they realize that feeling bad is better than feeling nothing.  As for the violence thing: goths do not like to fight.\n\nOther important parts of the the culture include music, which every goth I have ever know loves.  Music tastes range from Classical, 80's, punk rock, industrial, to gothic rock.  Liturature and art are also important, as goths tend to be cultured.\n\nCheck out www.goth.net/goth.html for another excellent explaination of gothic culture
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I believe the term is actually an occult state, not a cult state. I'm not 100% sure what that is, however, but I can tell you that occult literally means "hidden" if that helps.
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A cult is a religion that is said to be unorthodox or that emphasizes devotion according to prescribed ritual. Many cults follow a living human leader, and often their adherents live in groups apart from the rest of society.
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It's a bunch of junk based on the rantings of L. Ron Hubbard.  They believe because there is a lot of hypnosis involved in it.  It is a religion that uses a lot of psychobabble as it's base.  They teach that all mental illnesses can be cured with vitamins and exercise  It involves thetens (aliens that live in all our bodies), There is also auditing session and garbage about the earth being a prison planet for aliens.  Toss in there Hubbard was a good friend and great admirer of Alister Crowley and some of what is in it is almost word for word some of Crowley's rituals.  There is also rumors and stuff floating around, how true it is I haven't a clue, that when you reach OT8 you learn that Hubbard called himself the anti-Christ and that humans have it all wrong, that Lucifer was God and God was the evil one.  It's whacked out!
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I don't think any sane person worships Satan.  Socrates was right when he suggested that no one can do something evil on purpose, and the devil is the epitome of evil.  Therefore, no one would knowingly worship Satan.  So-called Satanists are just Dungeons & Dragons geeks who want to seem bad-ass.  There are bigger things to worry about than this irrational fear of Satanists.
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Well, the Church of Satan was founded in 1966, so I'd have to say no.  Satanism is a new belief system that doesn't worship Satan at all.  I know, crazy isn't it?  Anton LaVey founded it and called it Satanism to freak out the hippies and the folks in middle America.   \n\nThe Catholic church actually founded a form of Satanism in the 16th century.  I guess LaVey was right, Satan is the church's best friend.  Essentially, it was their justification for killing a bunch of people.