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Christian theologians claimed that the gods and goddesses venerated by these "pagans" were not genuine divinities but were actually demons. For instance, they may serve to uphold social norms, [23] to heighten the tension in existing conflicts between individuals, [23] or to scapegoat certain individuals for various social problems. A survey in the Encyclopedia of Satanism found that people became involved with Satanism in many diverse ways and were found in many countries. The concept of Satanism is an invention of Christianity, for it relies upon the figure of Satan, a character deriving from Christian mythology. It views Christianity – alongside other major religions, and philosophies such as humanism and liberal democracy– as a largely negative force on humanity; LaVeyan Satanists perceive Christianity as a lie which promotes idealism, self-denigration, herd behavior, and irrationality.

Apart from these, the symbol of Leviathan is also present in the First Book of Enoch and the Book of Amos. Both during his life and after it, the British occultist Aleister Crowley has been widely described as a Satanist, usually by detractors. In this context, a number of individuals took Satan out of the traditional Christian narrative and reread and reinterpreted him in light of their own time and their own interests, in turn generating new and different portraits of Satan. Religion by visible minority and generation status: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations with parts". In contrast to the organized and doctrinal Satanist groups is the personal Satanism of individuals, who identify as Satanists due to their affinity for the general idea of Satan, including such characteristics as viciousness and/or subversion.

The tradition first appears in the "Martyrdom of Peter", a fragmented text found in, but possibly predating, the apocryphal Acts of Peter, which was written no later than 200 A. LaVeyans view their religion as a force for redressing this balance by encouraging materialism, egoism, stratification, carnality, atheism, and social Darwinism. With its inception, spiritual Satanism was born – a current that until recently was regarded only as "theist", but then defined into "spiritual Satanism" by Theistic Satanists who concluded that the term "spiritual" in Satanism represented the best answer to the world, [201] considering it a "moral slap" toward the earlier carnal and materialistic LaVeyan Satanism, and instead focusing its attention upon spiritual evolution.

The First Satanic Church was re-founded on October 31, 1999, by Karla LaVey to carry on the legacy of her father. In Christian iconography, the Devil and demons were given the physical traits of figures from classical mythology, such as the god Pan, fauns, and satyrs. LaVey believed and taught that human values such as rebellion against injustice, self-assertion, fight against unjust authority, pure wisdom – one not defiled by external influences or teachings such as religion, and vital existence is, “His Infernal Majesty. The first recorded example of such an accusation being made within Western Christianity took place in Toulouse in 1022, when two clerics were tried for allegedly venerating a demon. He argues that man's unwillingness to accept his own ego has caused him to externalize these gods so as to avoid the feeling of narcissism that would accompany self-worship.

Among the first to do so was French Catholic priest Jean-Baptiste Fiard, who publicly claimed that a wide range of individuals, from the Jacobins to tarot card readers, were part of a Satanic conspiracy. The philosophy of the Temple of Set may be summed up as "enlightened individualism"— enhancement and improvement of oneself by personal education, experiment, and initiation. to 20th-century Christendom Stanislas de Guaita drew the original goat pentagram, which first appeared in the book La Clef de la Magie Noire in 1897. References to Satan also appeared in the work of those rock bands which were pioneering the heavy metal genre in Britain during the 1970s.

Religious Satanism does not exist in a single form, as there are multiple different religious Satanisms, each with different ideas about what being a Satanist entails. Dyrendal, Lewis, and Petersen argued that the groups within the Satanic milieu could be divided into three groups: reactive Satanists, rationalist Satanists, and esoteric Satanists. He stated that self-indulgence was a desirable trait, [111] and that hate, and aggression were not wrong or undesirable emotions but that they were necessary and advantageous for survival.

Promoters of the claims alleged that there was a conspiracy of organized Satanists who occupied prominent positions throughout society, from the police to politicians, and that they had been powerful enough to cover up their crimes. After LaVey's death in 1997, the Church of Satan was taken over by a new administration and its headquarters were moved to New York. LaVey's teachings promoted "indulgence", "vital existence", "undefiled wisdom", "kindness to those who deserve it", "responsibility to the responsible", and an " eye for an eye" code of ethics, while shunning "abstinence" based on guilt, "spirituality", "unconditional love", "pacifism", "equality", " herd mentality", and " scapegoating". Some say it was God’s creation and others believe it was Satan’s creation and symbolized Satan’s beast.