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Satanism

[ seyt-n-iz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of a highly diverse group of religious, philosophical, or countercultural practices centered around Satan, either as a deity or a nontheistic symbol of enlightenment, individualism, or ethical egoism. Compare Luciferianism ( def ).
a deliberate inversion of Christian rites in which Satan is worshiped.
Also sa·tan·ism. diabolical or satanic disposition, behavior, or activity.

Satanism

/ ˈseɪtəˌnɪzəm /

the worship of Satan
a form of such worship which includes blasphemous or obscene parodies of Christian prayers, etc
a satanic disposition or satanic practices

First recorded in 1555–65; Satan + -ism

In this information vacuum, something had to feed the beast and, as Leveritt said, “Satanism beat skepticism.”

“Basically, you have to be a Christian to believe in Satanism because you have to believe in the Devil,” he said.

We renounce idolatry, witchcraft, and Satanism in our land!

Satanism of the second division, its principles and its origin, will be described in the second chapter.

Fava, bishop of Grenoble, with whose opinions upon Satanism in Masonry we have previously made acquaintance.

All this is clearly outside the subject of Satanism, but it leads up, notwithstanding, to the discovery of M. Ricoux.

“I will be the exploiter and not the accomplice of modern Satanism,” said the pious Doctor Bataille.

It had besides a fin de sicle flavouring of Satanism and decadence.

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