(May 18, 2019 at 10:53 am)prhill Wrote:(May 18, 2019 at 10:44 am)arewethereyet Wrote: A little off topic, but...
I was listening to a true crime show last night and the law enforcement officer who was describing the suspect said that the suspect was an 'avowed atheist' and had several Satanic symbols tattooed on his body. 'Scuse me? Was he an atheist or a Satanist? It reminded me that some people don't get it. They believe that atheist=Satanist.
Well some Satanists are atheists like The Satanic Temple which the documentary HAIL SATAN is about are atheists. They embrace things like science and skepticism and fight for the separation of Church and state and human rights and stuff. Satan is just used as a symbol by them and not as an actual being.
The Satanic Temple and the Laveyan satanists/Church of Satan are two very different things
Yeah, I get that but one doesn't always follow the other, as you said there are different versions of Satanism.