If any one needs target practice all up and down the west coast from San Diego to Oregon Satanists are performing useless rituals in the hills and valleys.
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> Satanism forbids harming animals and as an atheistic religion, we don’t believe there is anything to make a sacrifice to. This is the kind of Satanic Panic era nonsense that ruined countless innocent people’s lives, we appreciate your efforts to help debunk it.
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So in the 60s they tried to rebrand Satanism as this atheistic libertarian-ish belief system
So they're claiming the "real Satanism" is this harmless group that's basically a lot of leftist edgelords that want to call themselves "Satanists" to trigger "fundamentalists"
I don't gather this sentiment is organic or persuasive - I imagine there are low level "Satanists" who are "true believers" and are just atheists calling themselves Satanists. I'd guess though that the higher ups behind closed doors are actual "theistic" Satanists who literally worship Satan as a god. This is admittedly speculation, but it seems doubtful to me the genuine atheist wants to call themself a "Satanist" rather than just an "atheist".
This tweet gave another piece of the puzzle I hadn't considered - I have seen one of their tenets is to avoid harming animals or children specifically. This seems like an obvious confession that behind closed doors they indeed seek to harm such beings.
Lastly they often deny Satanic rituals that have taken place in the past, as a form of gaslighting as actual rituals have likely taken place. Again here you can tell they're not being totally honest about their motives in dismissing past incidents as "Satanic Panic", because if they think there are so many religious people they object to ("fundamentalists"), surely there are others who would take that worldview seriously and engage in "theistic" Satanic rituals.
Sounds very possible theistic Satanists might have faked incidents that they can blame on "Satanic Panic". They may also have put up these flyers to generate fake "Satanic Panic" here as well.
If they ever get caught in the act, they'd probably blame that on "not real Satanists" doing the actions
> Satanism forbids harming animals and as an atheistic religion, we don’t believe there is anything to make a sacrifice to. This is the kind of Satanic Panic era nonsense that ruined countless innocent people’s lives, we appreciate your efforts to help debunk it.
Some thoughts
So in the 60s they tried to rebrand Satanism as this atheistic libertarian-ish belief system
So they're claiming the "real Satanism" is this harmless group that's basically a lot of leftist edgelords that want to call themselves "Satanists" to trigger "fundamentalists"
I don't gather this sentiment is organic or persuasive - I imagine there are low level "Satanists" who are "true believers" and are just atheists calling themselves Satanists. I'd guess though that the higher ups behind closed doors are actual "theistic" Satanists who literally worship Satan as a god. This is admittedly speculation, but it seems doubtful to me the genuine atheist wants to call themself a "Satanist" rather than just an "atheist".
This tweet gave another piece of the puzzle I hadn't considered - I have seen one of their tenets is to avoid harming animals or children specifically. This seems like an obvious confession that behind closed doors they indeed seek to harm such beings.
Lastly they often deny Satanic rituals that have taken place in the past, as a form of gaslighting as actual rituals have likely taken place. Again here you can tell they're not being totally honest about their motives in dismissing past incidents as "Satanic Panic", because if they think there are so many religious people they object to ("fundamentalists"), surely there are others who would take that worldview seriously and engage in "theistic" Satanic rituals.
Sounds very possible theistic Satanists might have faked incidents that they can blame on "Satanic Panic". They may also have put up these flyers to generate fake "Satanic Panic" here as well.
If they ever get caught in the act, they'd probably blame that on "not real Satanists" doing the actions