I know the church of Satan and the satanic temple are not about worshipping the biblical Satan. They are both humanistic and atheistic associations. I have been a member of the church of Satan for almost 30 years.

i do not think the satanic church is actually about satanism, despite the name or any claims. i do not think the satanic temple worships satan or any other imaginary creature. i think it exists to taunt those who violate the separation of church and state by demanding equal treatment. when someone puts up a statue of jesus, for example, on public property, the church demands the right to put up some satanic thing or other. thus i think satanism is as silly as any other religion, but the satanic church appears to be doing pretty well for all of us reasonable people.

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there are 3 kinds of "satanism"

1. The religious one that is a religion, and one of the dumbest ones, they worship a divinity that wants to destroy them and create chaos.

2. The philosophical and ethic group that uses the symbol of Lucifer to make a point against the poor moral standards and hypocrisy of christianism.

3. The group of atheist that use Satanism and the "equality of religions" to show how absurd is to give privilege to religions, creating a back door to talk about rationalism, science and critical thinking when christians try to occupy public spaces like schools or events.

My opinions:
Type 1 is a religion and as I said a dumb religion
Type 2 is a valid point, but maybe we are giving too much credit for chistianism only and treating it as a special kind of fairy tale.
Type 3 is a genius maneuver that can neutralize any attempt of religions to occupy a public space that they have no right. If a cross is in public space, so a baphomet donated by satanists must be. If the kids on school will listen chistian preaching, so they will listen about the real science and rationalism of the satanists.

I ultimately don't trust Satanism's core. I think that "Satan" is a word that, because of the nature of words to unpack into categories of sometimes contrasting definitions, inevitably will always stand for the avatar of the ultimate evil. I understand that pagan religions are cool, right, maybe even holy but I simply can't ignore what I have learned about it.

Ultimately, however, I'm no authority on this stuff. I'm one brain for one body. I can't extend much past myself to say what others may do, think, etc.

I have a notion of ethos and other stuff. To me, language has a domain of meanings for each term, almost exactly like a mathematical function. That's it.

I had the great opportunity to watch the Hail Satan film and I met the Satanic Temple members. The film helped me to understand that they are fighting for equal rights, justice and stop Christianity to take over the government or the government give adventages to the Christians groups.

I'm a member. We are all atheists who do not believe in the supernatural in any form and the same goes for pseudoscience. We are a nontheistic anti-religion religion determined to keep church and state separate and pointing out the hypocrisy of religion by fighting them on their own turf. Fire with hellfire, as it were. We choose Satan, or in my case, Lucifer, as a symbol of rebellion against arbitrary authority as found in literary works such as that of John Milton.

The Satanic Temple does not worship Satan. I'm a member because they believe in the strict separation of Church and State.

The only people I know who believe in Satan are Christians. It's nonsense, but it is extremely frightening to children--as anyone who's ever been to Sunday school can attest. I don't think Christianity is by any means all bad but as far as I know, it is the world's scariest religion precisely because of beliefs in Satan and everlasting Hell.

Could not be as evil as Islam!

They are non-religious group fighting to get rid of religion in government. They take advantage of loopholes made for churches, so they exploit them to force the city/state to back off. good examples are church displays in state capitals, oh a manger? enjoy our Baphomet statue.

Satan is as real as god, in my book.

Malarkey! Also in my reading of the bible, I find Satan/Lucifer/Devil much better than Yahweh.

well, which form of satanism?
There are different types:
Theistic
Polytheistic
Non-theistic

I usually think of The Satanic Temple..a non-Theistic activist group, which means that they don' believe in Satan, or god for that matter. But they fight the good fight against religion trying to take away our rights .

The Theistic types? I can only ask why?