(May 17, 2019 at 6:26 am)prhill Wrote: swears to this day LaVey believed in an actual Devil and made a pact with him.
This would at least lift their church out of banality and into some kind of eccentric passionate alternative.
Maybe I'm thinking of someone along the lines of John Michael Greer, who blogs at this site. He's not a Satanist but a Druid, which I guess is very different, but is also incompatible with the standard atheist sort of thinking. He believes in things like sentient nature spirits and other things that I don't understand. He is also fantastically well-read and capable of social and historical analysis that puts the mainstream media to shame. This is the kind of guy who offers the chance of something that would make us see the world in a valuable way that we otherwise wouldn't come across.