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In reply to the discussion: So I'm Grabbing Some Cheese At The Grocery Store... [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)It confuses them.
So, for all the Christians/whatever who might encounter this post, a primer:
Modern Satanism is hedonistic humanism.
No god, no satan, no superheroes, no supervillians. It's a form of atheism for folks who like to troll (harass, provoke, insult) others, by mockery.
Rituals still exist because they're fun, but Satanism isn't about believing in the ritual, and the extant books are filled with in-jokes related to said trolling. (Sperm wafers and ritual sex? Who would believe such crap? Oh, maybe the same folks who believed in talking snakes, virgin birth, burning bushes, global floods, etc.)
Satanists don't wear pentagrams because they worship Baphomet, they wear pentagrams because it'll freak you out.
They don't invert crosses to worship Satan, they invert them because they know Jesus and Satan and God and the Tooth Fairy are all just as equally real, and confronting you with this knowledge will freak you out.
Since others have brought up Wicca, it's not related.
At all.
Wicca believes in things.