re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital

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In other words, she's an atheist putting up a phony Satanic display

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Modern Satanism (LeVeyan Satanism, or the Church of Satan) neither worships nor even believes in the existence of Satan, or God for that matter.

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Satanists do not believe in the supernatural, in neither God nor the Devil. To the Satanist, he is his own God. Satan is a symbol of Man living as his prideful, carnal nature dictates. The reality behind Satan is simply the dark evolutionary force of entropy that permeates all of nature and provides the drive for survival and propagation inherent in all living things. Satan is not a conscious entity to be worshiped, rather a reservoir of power inside each human to be tapped at will. Thus any concept of sacrifice is rejected as a Christian aberration—in Satanism there’s no deity to which one can sacrifice.

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-- Peter H. Gilmore, current high priest of the Church of Satan