Dan1
August 23, 2006, 8:10am
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Overview:
The largest of the many traditions within Religious Satanism is the Church of Satan (CoS), which some people believe was founded on Walpurgisnacht, 1966-APR-30, (I Anno Satanas) by Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997). It was actually founded later that year.
The CoS, shares one property of the Church of Scientology: it is so controversial that many versions of “the truth” have sprung up over the years. It is impossible to separate reality from fake history. The following essay is our best shot at describing CoS history.
The beliefs, practices and rituals of the Church of Satan have few, if any, points of similarity with the Christian or Muslim concept of Satan. The CoS’ Satan is pre-Christian, and derived from the Pagan image of power, virility, sexuality and sensuality. Satan is viewed as a force of nature, not a living quasi-deity. Their Satan has nothing to do with Hell, demons, pitchforks, sadistic torture, demonic possession, and profound evil. There are references in LaVey’ writings to having conducted a few Black Masses for publicity purposes, in which the Roman Catholic Mass was ridiculed. But, it is unknown whether these references were satirical or reflected actual rituals. Assuming that the black masses were fictional, all of their rituals have no connection to those of Christianity or of any other religion.
Some of their beliefs and practices are:
They do not worship a living deity.
religioustolerance.org/satanis1.htm
Yo, this reminds me of an Kemetic Ram godform. Not biblical Satan at all. I dunno why they call it “Satanism”. They really goofed up on the name. They should have called their ideology: “Amunism” or: “Khnumism”.
[size=75]I thought the freaked-out goat-dragon dude I seen was damn-fine, but yes, a non-literal form…[/size]
Sigh.
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W.C
August 23, 2006, 1:38pm
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What ever happened to Dr.Satanical? He was a proud member of the CoS, if I remember correctly. The boards just dont feel the same without him.
On the name; I believe they called it what they did to attract attention and make people actually question what it was, whereby they begin to question their own beliefs. Confusing at first glance, and pain to explain to some people, but there it is.
Dan1
August 23, 2006, 4:45pm
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What ever happened to Dr.Satanical? He was a proud member of the CoS, if I remember correctly. The boards just dont feel the same without him.
On the name; I believe they called it what they did to attract attention and make people actually question what it was, whereby they begin to question their own beliefs. Confusing at first glance, and pain to explain to some people, but there it is.
Founding of the Church of Satan:
Religious Satanists existed in the 1950’s, both in the United States and the UK. But they were little known to the public. Legends describe how modern Satanism burst into mass consciousness on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, (I Anno Satanas) when LaVey announced the creation of the Church of Satan. 2 In reality, LaVey was teaching weekly lectures on occult topics for $2.00 a person during the spring of 1966. A professional publicist, Edward Webber, suggested that he “would never make any money by lecturing on Friday nights for donations … it would be better to form some sort of church and get a charter from the State of California … I told Anton at the time that the press was going to flip out over all this and that we would get a lot of notoriety”. Formation of the Church of Satan occurred much later in 1966; it was triggered by a newspaper article that referred to LaVey as the “priest of the Devil’s church”. 9
LaVey is widely believed to have been the technical advisor for the 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby. He claimed to have played the part of the Devil in that film. Apparently, his only involvement with the movie was that he was once asked by a theatre in San Francisco to make an promotional appearance when the film opened. 9 However, LaVey seems to have been involved as an advisor in a later movie The Devil’s Rain which was released in 1975. He appeared in the movie as a Satanic priest. Some chants and symbols in the movie come from his writings.
A leftist play on Jewish culture, combined with philosophical “value”, sold as a product, consumed by faith and communion instinct.