(July 6, 2015 at 10:15 am)bennyboy Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 12:54 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Words have meanings Benny. You can't communicate without accepted definitions.Do you want me to google it for you? How do you want the obvious served up to you? Link to sites claiming those names which are different than each other? Etymology? A bibliography?
Are you proposing you have some evidence that those words are used other ways or are you just wanting to make shit mean whatever you want it to for right now?
The accepted definition of "Satanist" is "someone who believes in Satan, or who implements ideas about Satan in a system of thought" or something like that. How that applies to real people in real social contexts is obviously going to vary a lot. There's no Church of Satan™ to officially declare that Satanism is X and not Y.
There's at least three satanic organizations I know of, the LaVey Church of Satan, the Temple of Satan and the Left-Hand Path Church of Set which all consider the other two to be horrible plagiarists and not "real satanists".