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And just what is "in league with Satan"? Western society classes so many things under that inaccurate umbrella phrase. Depending on who you ask, it can be anything from the forever stereotyped goth kiddies to anyone who isn't a certain sect of Christianity. The term is applied frequently, correct rarely.

Well of course you're not going to worship something you think is evil, that's just retarded. The run of the mill Satanist is likely a La Veyan Satanist. They don't believe in Satan as a literal being, but rather a force of nature, the animal side of human beings. They are typically atheistic. The theistic Satanists... I don't know so much about them, but they worship various gods considered basically synonymous with Satan by Christianity (some do worship Satan of Christianity, but it's by and large not the norm). Various gods of the theistic Satanist include Belial, Set, and various Mesopotamian gods.

Technically, every non Abrahamic faith is considered pagan.

Creating an entire opinion based on inferences you derived from the name is seldom a good idea.

La Vey started the Church of Satan as a counter religion to Christianity, though it soon evolved into a full fledged religion of its own. Satan was chosen as the name both because it was a slap in the face to Christianity and because the Christian Satan was essentially the embodiment of the values the Church of Satan wished to instill in its followers.

Theistic Satanism is most probably called Satanism simply because Western civilization, as dominated by Christianity as it is, tends to classify many, many, many things not related to Christianity as having to do with Satan. The list of demonized gods is long and includes such names as Baphomet, Beelzebub, and Mammon. Furthermore, to my knowledge, it focuses on a similar set of values as La Veyan Satanism.

I think you need to calm down and stop being so defensive. Perhaps people aren't as rude as you'd like to assume they are. I've answered all your questions, have yet to insult you, and simply gave you a generally good piece of advice. Most people would consider that fairly acceptable. You've been wording your posts in a fairly defensive manner from the start which suggests to me you were almost expecting to be attacked and are now simply trying to project your own prophecies on to my posts.

...sometimes I find all forms of religion to be contradictive and
hap-hazard...when it all comes down to the wire it's a 50/50 chance to see if you were right or wrong about something and until man can find a way to reserrect on demand we'll never truely know...

People are incapable of being purely anything. As dark as someone may be, there is always that ray of light and as light as someone may be, there is always that little shadow just waiting to grow...

I have a friend who's a satanist and she says that satanism is more the worship of the self, as opposed to the worship of a divine being. This struck me at first as satanism being very narcissistic.

And I read something about satanism involving eight days of sacrifice.

What drives me the most nuts about satanism is the term witch is applied to satanists and to wiccans. People tend to confuse the two and draw the conclusion that wiccans are satanists, which they are not.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11349961 Theres a Satanism FAQ/whatever right there.

Satan means adversary. The Church of Satan is a slap to the Christian faith, and it means they are adversaries.

Pan, the greek/roman (?) god of the forest who plays the panflute has horns and goats legs with the body of a human. Somethings say he was also a sex freak to various degrees, and other times hes just a "god" who likes music, dancing, and nature.

I also like how the original poster hasn't posted since Res pointed out the flaw in their logic. Or to put it in an actually rude statement, "Pointed out their stupidity."

(I'm not above being blunt and rude in turn to stupidity =D<---...first time I remember using a text emote)