"Hail Satan?" (2019)

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The Satanic Temple are fighting to keep the separation of church f state which is very important.  In fact even many christians support them on that because it is so important even to some of them.  They also fight against Pseudoscience which is great because way too many people are being fooled by that stuff even some atheists.  They also fight for other things like womens rights, etc.  They do great things.

Again this is The Satanic Temple that this film is talking about and I am glad it is getting so much positive attention. It is not about LaVeyan Satanism at all. LaVeyan Satanism is more about things like Pseudoscience and occultism and the supernatural and Might is Right, etc very different from The Satanic Temple.  And Laveyan Satanism (Church of Satan) is not active, they dont do anything

LaVeyan Satanism has nothing to do with psuedoscience. Occultism? Meh... depends on how you look at it. LaVey was certainly interested in various occultist groups and drew different ideas and imagery from those groups but I would not describe LaVey or the Church of Satan as occultists in any way shape or form. A vast majority of LaVeyan Satanists would and do identify as atheists.

Also, there is no onus on the CoS to be "active." It's not a political group. There is no "group agenda" for the CoS.

But Laveyns believe ritual magic can be used to actually curse or heal people and make girls come to them for sex. they brag more about results from magic than christians even do from prayer.  They even promote Rupert Sheldrake who is very much into pseudoscience. And even though Laveyan satanism does not preach other things like spirit guides or belief in ghosts and reincarnation, demons and a spirit world many Laveyans do believe in those things