<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2012 20:48, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Well, since it was Anton Szandor La Vey who said it, it is about as
close to the pope saying it. After all, he was the guy who founded
the Church of Satan. <br></div></blockquote></div><br>Hey, it is like to say that Robespierre founded theism. :-)<br><br>LaVey's brand of Satanism is a funny form of atheism which makes exclusive use of satanic iconography, and does not really involve any faith in the existence of the personal, supernatural entity who has been worshipped throughout centuries as the enemy of another personal entity with the features of the christian God.<br>
<br>I daresay that orthodox Satanism does not really differ from traditional catholic theology unless for some understandably more "manichean" accents - and of course for the stance taken by its followers.<br><br>
-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>