What exactly do satanists believe?
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LaVeyan Satanists: http://www.satanism101.com/\n\nTheistic Satanists: http://www.theisticsatanism.com/\n\nDevil Worship: http://www.traditionalsatanism.net/\n\nI hope this helps.
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Slipknot isn't into Satanism. They are simply more or less anti-religion, or anti-Christianity in general. Now bands like Slayer use Satanism as a gimic, i.e. they are metal, rebellious, anti-religion, thus it is cool to have Satanically laced lyrics. Then there are bands like Deicide who actually contain practicing Satanists. Hence, since they are practicing their lyrics would definitely reflect that. Anyway, I hope that clears crap up.
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NO- atheist does not mean satanist (if you are equating that to evil). A belief system is sacred. I applaud anyone that takes the time to sort things out and not blindly follow the theology (or lack there of)  of their parents/friends/whatever. I occasionally wonder if those that do the right thing because it is the right thing and not to attain entrance into heaven more commendable.  If you are talking about someone who believes in nothing and therefore cares about nothing I'm not sure I would consider them "good"--- but who determines "evil" anyway.
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"Mainstream Satanism is more or less a philosophy than a religion. It is believing in being your own god of sorts, of going out and changing the world yourself rather than waiting for spiritual aid or instruction. "\n\nThis is exactly what humanity MUST do if it is to come out of the intellectual darkness of religion--however, I see no need to attach the label of "Satanism" to it (yet another non-existent deity), when "humanism" works just fine.  There is no invisible, all-powerful deity who will hear humanity's pathetic prayers and solve all our problems for us. If the world is to be improved, it will be improved through the efforts of HUMANS, not GODS.  \n\nWe have historical evidence for this. It is people, not God, who developed the medical profession to where it is today. In times past, people died of many diseases that we can now treat, cure, or at least curtail--influenza, polio, smallpox, cancer, heart attack, strokes, malaria, chicken pox, mumps, measles, etc.  God never cured or eliminated a single disease and never responded to a single prayer, but when HUMANS began developing cures, improving sanitation, and figuring out the causes of illnesses, then health began to improve for millions all over the world. This is just one example of the superiority of the intellectual mind over belief in an imaginary entity.
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A christian is a person who believes in God\nA satanist is a person who believes in Satan
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Satan is the ruler of all earthly desires (lust, greed, power, etc.) and those people want to experience what they call "the good life" in the here and now. This as opposed to the Divine bliss that other religions are offering which can be experienced in the next lifetime.
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Summerland - Thoughts & Traditions\n\nWiccans and Pagans do not believe in the existence of the Christian “Hell”, as either a tangible place (one of fire and brimstone, of eternal torture and torment) or as a spiritual plane (out of “God’s sight” and being forsaken by and separated from God), where the damned or evil languish and suffer. I can’t even comprehend such a terrible idea of this sort, let alone imagine that a creative force that is supposed to be all-knowing, all-seeing, all-forgiving and all-loving could separate Itself from, and turn Its back on, Its creations. Essentially all Wiccans, myself included, assert that the existence of Hell is completely incompatible with their concept of a loving and forgiving Deity.\n\nWhile we’re on the subject of the loving Deity and the inexistence of Hell, I must state that Wiccans and Pagans do not believe in the existence of the Christian-concept of an entity called “Satan”. The idea that Witches worship this “Satan” is one of the most common misconceptions about us. This erroneous idea probably developed hundreds of years ago because some Christian leaders encouraged their followers to view non-Christians as anti-Christian. If you weren’t a believer in Christ, the embodiment of the good, you MUST be a believer in his evil opposite—Satan or the Devil. The all-evil Satan is a Christian concept that plays NO part in the Wiccan religion. Wiccans do not recognize the existence of the Christian quasi-deity, Satan; their pantheons of deities do not include an all-evil supernatural being. Wiccans do not believe that negativity or evil is an organized force.\n\nWiccans believe in the morals that are common to most faiths, but Wiccans don’t believe in the idea of “original sin”. We don’t believe we are “born sinners”, and no one can prove to us otherwise. Wiccans don’t need a “saviour”, we don’t have anything to be “saved” from to begin with. Personally, as an intelligent, sentient being, I find the ideas of original sin, being born a sinner and having to be “saved” not only completely ridiculous, but downright insulting. While Wiccans do not believe there is a hell to punish sinners, Wiccans do believe there is a universal law, called karma, that puts our behaviour on display so that we can learn from it.\n\nWHAT HAPPENS TO PAGANS AFTER DEATH\n\nThere are basically four major paths within mogern Paganism.\nThese are:\nWicca\nDruidism\nAsatru\nEclectic Paganism.\nWithing each there are many denomination, much the same as Protestantism. Virtually all of the various Pagan spiritual traditions have some place of rest, comfort and reward to which we expect we will go, even if only for a brief time before reincarnation, growing younger and younger until, eventually, we are again young enough to be reborn. We accept death as a necessary step in the cycles of life; Birth, death and rebirth. Most Pagan belief systems include the concept that it is our lives that are our most important purpose here and that we can make this life into a reward or a punishment by how we live and how we relate to those around us. We believe that our own sense of personal responsibility and morality is what controls our punishment or reward in this lifetime.\n\nFor Wiccans and Pagans, this place is known as the "Summerland". It is a place of eternal rest and comfort, or if we have not learned enough in this lifetime and are to be reincarnated, a restful and pleasant stop over between lives.\n\nTo the Northern European or Nordic Traditions, for warriors it is known as Valhalla. For other, it is called Noatun, where the sun meets the water, Asgaard and several others. There are at least 12 abodes for the dead, allowing each some choice in where they will meet and abide in eternal feasting with Odin. Oaht-breakers and others who dishonored their community or themselves, were sent to Nastrond, more to keep them away from the good golks in the other places t
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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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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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I think some of the Gothics do summon Devil, we call them Satanists also.
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just cause its a cult, doesnt mean its satanic. \n\nremember the man who got a whole bunch of people to kill themselves to bring themselves closer to god?\n\nyou can't pull some out of a cult. their beliefs are their decision. you may only suggest help, if you see visible signs of their physical and mental deterioration. and this is not likely to happen
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I assume you are speaking from a Christian perspective, I do not think modern Satanists read the bible as such.  Modern Satanism is very much akin to humanism, where the self is supreme, a form of self-worship.  Satanists do not necessarily directly worship a god called Satan but revere themselves as gods.  Some of a christian background may choose this 'religion' as it seems rebellious or 'scary'\n\nAs for a genuine worship of Satan ... well at least Lucifer, there is a group of people in the middle-east called the Yezedis who revere Lucifer, they have a similar creation story to genesis but believe the 'peacock angel/feathered serpent' was a wise mentor to mankind, and that God is impersonal and distant from mankind.  The Yezedis are very secretive about their religion and never refer to Lucifer as Satan, but call him the peacock angel or the feathered serpent.  They don't drink blood or sacrifice children, but they worship Lucifer and think he is good rather than evil.\n\nIn the past there were several pagan religions in the middle east that endorsed child-sacrifice, but these religions involved worship of various fertility gods rather than acknowledging a Judeo-Christian Satan.  In the bible it is written that various kings endorsed such religions and this lead to the downfall of Israel and Judah\n\nAs answer to your question why would someone willingly worship Satan while knowing about Jesus, a need to be different, rebelliousness and perhaps a severe religious upbringing\n\nPS I am not a satanist but fascinated by unusual things
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I wouldn't believe them because satan would never tell you who he is.He would rather deceive you into believing he is someone who cares about you.God would be saddened if you didn't know enough to recognize the devil when you see him.Afterall he has given us a manual to refer to,and yet we doubt what he says.If calling evil just that is crazy,then crazy I am.I know evil when I see it and am not afraid to call it what it is......EVIL SATAN!!!!!
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I am pagan, not Wiccan....but since Wicca is a branch of paganism I'd love to answer any of your questions. Wiccans don't believe in Satan....which makes it kind of hard for them to be Satanists. The two main beliefs are harm none and what you do comes back to you threefold. As to which Gods/Goddesses Wiccans believe in, it depends on the person. I'd love to answer any more questions you have...so feel free to email me!
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Satanism and Devil worship are completely different.  What the Christian church calls Satanism is actually "Devil worship", which the church invented in the 16th century and which was used to justify the burning of witches.\n\nThose who call themselves Santanists do not believe in any notion of Satan as an actual living being.  Here is an excerpt from www.religioustolerance.org, which I recommend for understanding any religion:\n\nTheology of the Church of Satan:\n- People have created Gods in many forms; pick one that might be useful to you. \n- Heaven and Hell do not exist. \n- Satan is not closely related to the modern (post 1400 AD) concept of the Christian devil. Satanists view Satan as a pre-Christian life principle which represents the carnal, earthly, and mundane aspects of life. \n- Satan is not a being, a living entity; he is a force of nature. \n- Human life is held in sacred regard. Children in particular are not to be harmed. \n- "Satan...represents love, kindness and respect to those who deserve it." \n- Black Masses (parodies of the Roman Catholic religious service) are not normally performed by Satanists (except on rare occasions for their entertainment or publicity value). \n\nTo read the full explanation of Satanism see the source.
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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 don't think there is an actual "devil". I think the "devil" is a just a way for us to apply a bad face to evil acts. I think humans need God as humans have been worshipping dieties for tens of thousands of years and nearly 90% of the world believes in a diety in some form.