(May 14, 2019 at 1:44 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: @Belaqua Y'know, when these Satanists are talking to a documentarian and taking themselves seriously... they say things like "We're a rejection of mainstream culture."
...and perhaps they sound a little douchey.
But maybe (when they aren't taking themselves seriously) and their petitioning to put a Baphomet statue up in front of some podunk courthouse that is crawling with fundamentalist imbeciles, they might just hit some of those "antinomian Christian" notes that you so much appreciate.
The French Satanists and occultists I've read about were fascinating people. They were also very knowledgable about antinomian and mystical traditions in Christian culture. Most of them were raised seriously Catholic, and some of them went back to Catholicism in time. This was not a pose for them, or a club for their pals.
No doubt there are serious people among American Satanists as well. My skepticism was about Satanism as a deracinated dress-up version, with nothing much at stake. An American Disney Satanism.
Again, if you want to put up your statue as an equal or alternative government-approved association for nice people, I see no point in calling on Satan.
It was disappointing to me that nobody here was willing to teach me about American Satanism. I suspect there would be interesting things to learn.
