I Must Protest! (Maybe Not)

A few months ago, I went to see a movie. While me going to see a movie in and of itself is fairly unremarkable, what was remarkable was that the movie I was going to see was Penny Lane’s Hail Satan?, and my boyfriend had come down to visit for the occasion (not entirely relevant […]

Voodoo In The Night

One of the many things I’m asked as a Satanist is, if I don’t believe in a literal Satan, why do I participate in ritual magick? Why perform a destruction ritual if you don’t believe anyone is going to be destroyed by it? What is Black Mass, if not devil worship? The thing is, ritual […]

A Small Taste of Your Afterlife

As a Satanist, I don’t believe in a Heaven or Hell. I don’t really believe in an afterlife, period. As far as I’m concerned, this is the only life I get. I don’t get a chance to do things differently in a different reincarnation. I will not be forgiven by a stern but caring deity […]

The One We Love To Hate

It might come as a minor shock, but there are a lot of people who don’t take Satanism seriously as a religion. Those with neither the capacity nor the desire to understand it scoff at us Satanists as silly little edgelords desperate for attention, at best, or, at worst, target us as devil worshipers who […]