(March 5, 2019 at 8:31 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(March 3, 2019 at 3:47 pm)Yonadav Wrote: "Anton Lavey came off as just being a spiritually bored individual who capitalized titillating satanic nonsense. Atheists playing games with satanism are boring, because there is nothing about a satanic atheist that can be taken seriously. It is essentially just a form of cultural misappropriation and probable misrepresentation.
This short bit of your post shows that you know absolutely NOTHING about the Satanic philosophy and that your thoughts (as well as Belaqua's thoughts) on this subject should not be taken seriously."
Perhaps wrong of me, but I've never been able to take Anton LaVey any more seriously than I take Aleister Crowley or Gerald Gardner.
These concocted beliefs are deeply enmeshed with the Christian tradition with its tendency to conflate Pan with Satan.
He lost me when he claimed an ideological link with Ayn Rand. Also love to see his explanation of his clim to have been influenced by
Nietzsche