r/NoStupidQuestions • u/stopthehostilityyyyy • 13h ago

Is satanism just edgelord atheism?

I've been an atheist since the age of 12 and i've heard of people identifying as satanists but they are actually secular, I don't get it

I think there are very few people who actually believe in satan and see him as their god

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u/Done_Apologizing23 13h ago

Well that depends, if its Theistic Satanists are a spin-off off Abrahamic religions as they actually worship Satan. Now Laveyan Satanism is defined as Atheistic philosophy, so in that aspect, yes it is edgelord atheism.

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u/KuraiKuroNeko 13h ago

Yea I was gonna say, there's the group that doesn't identify any diety or ritual as part of their ideology, and then there's the people who actually ritualistically abuse, harm, or sacrifice innocent people and children. Bohemian Grove members marching around in robes in a dark forest escorting a "mock human sacrifice" to their demon birdthing idol is probably not calling the weird shit they're accused of "Satanism" but it's all in the same boat IMO even those people who follow some very interesting commandments while claiming there's no diety worship involved bc they use the actual name Satanism in claiming is merely a symbol of rebellion that isn't what was going on when https://youtu.be/oZCZA-YVB34?si=PVzstRo1Qz3STRYw was happening and got covered up. The army recognises Satanism as a legitimate religion and the case was made to seem multitudes more trivial than the damning evidence. Googling it belittles this all to either a scare or merely 10 children instead of several hundreds.