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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
If I recall correctly, that is the religious view taken by a group very similar to Satanists. Hell, they might be Satanists, for all I know. Anyway, their view is that "God" is the being that you have described. Lucifer, and his followers, rose up against God to put order into the universe, was defeated, and subsequently banished.
Not that I subscribe to any of it. You have to first believe in god, to believe in satan, and so on, and so forth. I, personally, have no use for any of it. I just find it interesting, is all, how "fringe" religions take thier view.
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modern day satanism (at least in the lavey form) doesn't believe in the christian satan. they just call it that cause it pisses people off. the main idea is more along the lines of wicca, where the world has an "energy" to it that can be manipulated. unlike wicca (which states do what you will as long as you harm none), satanism says do what you will if it makes you feel good. there are some smaller sects of satanism that are more literal and opposite christianity, but the most popular form has nothing to actually do with it.