"Hail Satan?" (2019)

[Yonadav]

What do you have to back up that claim?

In contrast, here is an intelligent person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM&t=1243s

She understands irony and self-criticism. She didn't just buy her rebellion out of a catalog. What she says is far more helpful than puffing yourself up by poking people in the eye.

Fascinating video. I especially enjoyed her comments on Ricky Gervais' jokes about trans people. It's just not funny coming from a person who isn't trans. It's more like a little bit scary to a person who is trans. To actually be funny, it has to come from those who are actually in the crossfire, and not from bystanders who are capitalizing on it.

Anton Lavey came off as just being a spiritually bored individual who capitalized titillating satanic nonsense. Atheists playing games with satanism are boring, because there is nothing about a satanic atheist that can be taken seriously. It is essentially just a form of cultural misappropriation and probable misrepresentation.

I have heard rumors that there really are satanic Catholic priests and nuns. I don't know if it's true. But I sort of suspect that large religious sects who believe that there is such a being as satan will have a few members who secretly worship him because of some sincere religious belief and sincere reasons. That would be 'real' satanism. 

In Judaism, we had a guy go darkside and taught a rather 'dark' Judaism in which they practiced purification through intentional transgression. His name was Jacob Frank. He caused a lot of trouble, such as causing all copies of the Talmud in Poland to be burned. He lived about 250 years ago. His cult lasted for quite awhile and was considered to be absolutely evil to every Jew that was not a member of it. It was our equivalent of satanism. Every once in awhile, I will run into some young Jew who claims to be a Frankist. That young Jew is always completely uninteresting because I know that they don't really believe anything, and they are dabbling with Frankism because they are bored and think that being a Frankist makes them esoteric and shocking. They're not. But if I were to meet an educated Jew who has been very religiously observant and became a Frankist sincerely-- that would be interesting. Very interesting.