AuroraAngel wrote:if one wants to claim to be a satanist one does not say that satanism and atheism are the same thing. they are not.
in one you believe in something.
in the other you believe in nothing.
there is no similarity between the two and saying that they are the same thing is both misguided and grievous to the rest of us. it causes misunderstanding and it just gets frustrating and more frustrating the longer that goes on.
Actually Modern Satanist are in deed Atheist. They do not believe in any sort of deity