Posted by Kel on 6/6/2006, 2:12 pm ********** ...the First Church of Satan in Salem, America, which split from the original Church of Satan 12 years ago. ********** Did I just hear a faint cry of "Splitters!" Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5051540.stm
Wonderful article on the Beeb web site about Satanists and how they're dealing with today's date. I especially enjoyed the factional in-fighting.
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The Temple of Set ... is another breakaway from the Church of Satan, claiming a history of several thousand years, and "formally incorporated in 1975 CE".
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Crabtree dissociates the Church of Satan from the Temple of Set and the First Church of Satan, saying it is the only Satanist group that is "sane and worthwhile".
He says any Satanists who actually worship the Devil, rather than revering "Satan" as an abstract value, are "immature, unstable and nothing to do with us".
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