The person said they were a satanist but that they don't believe in satan. That in and of itself is a contradiction.
It's actually not. Satanism was founded on the grounds of Christian accusation towards other religion that was said to be "demonic". Either clear misunderstanding or some variation of the Bible/Pseudo-Bible claimed those deities were in fact Demons, and this caused massacre of so many non-Christians. The non-Christians didn't find it wrong to worship the deities their ancestors have been worshiping since millenia, and if Christians say "they're worshiping Satan", then they don't care about it. So basically Satanism is merely a "term" based by Christian prejudice.
As for the contradiction on the belief of Satans/Gods, you're dead wrong. What makes an Athiest? 1) Belief in supernatural powers, and 2) Tearing away from religion. For myself, I'm religious on the grounds of Hinduism, but my personal belief is that the "deities" worshiped by the Hindus are not Gods, but merely past historical figures. Similarly, Anton LeVey is a kind of Satanism that consider personification of several aspects of humanity. For instance, Baphomet for Fertility, Anubis for Judgement, etc. Personification, and nothing more. This isn't something moronic, just plain logical.
theistic: belief in the actual deity of Lucifer
Only the Luciferians belief that.
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Other types of Satanism usually go for different deities, such as Enki, Horus or Seth.
LaVeyan: worship of the self, does not belief in ANY deities, ie atheist (or so they say)
You can say that they are sort of a bind of both religion and atheism. That's quite rare in the society.
Yet they still do all the silly stereotypical satanic stuff. Hell, they go even further than that, these dumbasses have inverse catholic masses, satanic weddings and even satanic holydays.
There are many Satanists that actually give Satanism a bad name, similar to how most Christians have given a bad reputation to their religion. The Black Masses, for instance, was out of hatred towards Christianity itself. Most Satanists have actually been against these kinds of practices, but some still consider it "sacred". I wonder why.
This isn't satanism at all, it's free spiritism disguised as satanism so as to attract more people, offend more ppl, and just in general reach more ppl.
I agree with you there.
It only prolongs the time before the masses realize that religion gets in the way of these morals, integrity, and honesty.
I'm kinda tired of explaining over and over again. Taking religion in general takes humanity in general. Not because religion solely symbolizes humanity (in fact it does not) but because what you apply towards religion COULD ALSO be applied towards humanity as whole, especially atheists. If there's a flaw in religion, speak against it. But if you're speaking against religion in general, you're just being one of those fools who've caused the greatest misunderstandings in history which in turn caused all out wars and massacres.
It's a fairy tale that has a moral to the story. That's all religion is. Wouldn't it be much better to skip the elves, goliaths, and kings, and just be told the lesson of the story?
Now THAT'S what I'm talkin about!
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And I can't read your screenshot. XD