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[The Architect Of Fate]

It's because modern American "Satanists" don't believe in Satan. It's cos-play.

Satan is a symbol

They could just as well be Mickey Mousists, except the Satan thing pisses off the Christians more. And I'm sure they're happy that their statue was broken, because it gets them more attention and gives them an opportunity to prosecute someone who was "oppressing" them. Political theater.

Pointing out the hypocrisy  of the freedom of religion crowd and standing up against Christian attempts to impose their religion on everyone else is not persecution and the very real attempt by evangelical nutjobs to destroy the separation of church and state is oppression. 

Their real beliefs are just what modern liberal Americans believe. 

Nah their beliefs varied wildly.

This is in contrast to old-style European Satanists, who actually believed they were risking something, and weren't just grandstanding.

Yeah standing up for religious freedom and retaining the wall of separation of church and state is just "grandstanding." and Satanist are risking something we are all risking something when  evangelical nutjobs are allowed to rum amok.