"Hail Satan?" (2019)

[EgoDeath]

Yeah, sure, satanism is basically protestantism..instead of it's rejection.  Brilliant thesis.

........WTF?..................

There's plenty wrong you could find with Satanism if you wanted to, depending on who you ask. I think it's logically pretty coherent but you could certainly disagree with some of its tenets on a fundamental level depending on what type of person you are.

But to arrogantly dismiss Satanism as something edgelords got into in the 70s for the "shock value" of it is a bit short-sighted and wholly ignorant of what the philosophy is actually about. I have to suspect Yon didn't read the book so much as he looked at words, turned pages and put it out on his coffee table to seem "dangerous."

If anything, LaVey would turn people away who just wanted to scream "Hail Satan!", dress up in black robes and read The Satanic Bible in public. Those people are nitwits who would be mocked by people who actually understand the philosophy. I've heard it said by Satanists before that, "If you knew a guy in high school who was a 'Satanist,' he probably wasn't anything close to it."

A lot of these people in the original Church were doctors, lawyers, law enforcement agents, artists etc.

So, the point I'm getting to is that yea, some of them did things that normal Americans did, while also doing plenty of things that normal Americans didn't. That is totally beside the point.

But, I suppose I'm preaching to the choir.