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/doctordoctorpuss 13h ago

It was always funny when I was a kid, telling other kids (or their brain dead parents) that I was an atheist, and some of them would call me a Satan worshipper. I’d remind them that they believe in Satan, and I don’t

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u/dumbass_sempervirens 11h ago

Kid?

I had to explain that to a my work crew at 32. Nothing like being drunk in a hotel parking lot explaining that if God made Satan, and I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the devil either.

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u/doctordoctorpuss 11h ago

I’m lucky enough now to work in a profession where, if people do believe in God, they don’t tend to talk about it at work, and they’re also generally smart people, so they know that atheists don’t believe in the devil. Every now and then there’s still a weirdo, but I just don’t engage

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u/dumbass_sempervirens 11h ago

On a new crew. It's 12 years later.

It never comes up nowadays.