Feel the Burn
The Apathy & The Ecstasy
I care about Satanism, but not about everything to do with it. Some topics you couldn’t threaten me into minding. I choose sloth—and that’s empowering.
Satanist Bible Study: Genesis
The serpent Satan beguiling Eve is the most famous of all myths about the devil–and it never happened. Here’s the annoying reason people believe it anyway.
Nothing New Under the Dumb
“Belief in Satan is a very old conspiracy theory,” folklorist Bill Ellis says. There is no “new Satanic Panic”: The panic was old when religion was young.
Mounting Dis-Ease
Most of our Bay Area Satanists don’t need to hear this. Most of you would get the vaccine this second even if it meant biting into a cactus like an apple.
Easter Mess: Kosher Devils
Many of the tropes we take for granted about Satanism have roots in anti-Jewish bigotry, although like the appeal of George Burns, they can be hard to place.
I’m a Satanist, Not a God
Durkheim said, “Religion is society worshiping itself.” Which if true means Satanism is not the religion of self-worship. That’s every religion.
Dying To Know
Curiosity-seekers sometimes ask: As atheists, how do Satanists cope with death? Which I find a strange question. What makes you think anyone copes?
White Noise
Ever wonder why most Satanists seem to be white? If your answer is no that’s okay, it’s not the sort of thing that comes up in TED Talks or at most parties.
Blake Mass Appeal
Poet, artist, and possible madman William Blake was a visionary of the Romantic Satanist movement, but does that make him a Satanist in the modern sense?
Why Is Satanism, Satanism?
You know the drill: Most Satanists don’t believe in a real Satan, good, yes. But what DO Satanists believe–and more importantly, why?
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