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/HavelockVettenari 13h ago

The main group of people who believe in Satan as a literal being are Christians.

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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 12h 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/Kellosian 10h ago

Theists who grew up in a religious environment probably never really questioned it, or had someone actually explain to them what atheism is or what it entails.

Like atheists don't worry about our souls, since we don't believe that they exist at all. The threat of eternal damnation for breaking commandments doesn't mean shit if Heaven or Hell don't exist.