Why would Yahoo Answers remove this answer about the Satanic Rituals?

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Some one asked the question "Have you read The Satanic Rituals" by Anton LaVey?" I answered I had and gave this answer:
Deleted Answer: I have actually read the book, and all the others by LaVey. Howard Anton Levey (a.k.a Anton Szandor LaVey) founded the Church of Satan in 1966 to cash in on the occult craze of the 1960's. LaVey's philosophy is one of hedonism and "free love" (hardly news for the 60's), and featured rituals with his nude wife and bare breasted female followers, which shows why males would want to join...even at the cost of $20 per meeting back then. LaVey didn't live up to his claims nor did he follow his own creed. Even though Satanism eschews charity of any kind, LaVey and his family lived on welfare and handouts during the late 70s-80s. Even though LaVey claimed Satanic magic could give "mastery of the earth", he still died bankrupt in a house he didn't own. LaVey lied about his accomplishments in life (i.e., an oboist for an orchestra, lion tamer, criminologist,

etc.)and was in fact, just a high school dropout. While LaVey claimed he tried to "keep the nuts out" and disavowed criminal activity within his Satanic church, he admitted in several writings of engaging in a "cannibal feast" and forced females followers into prostitution...beating them when they did not bring back enough money. In the 1980s his common law wife Diane left him and sued, claiming LaVey beat her all during their relationship, which is confirmed by LaVey's children. LaVey claimed Satanists did not believe in harming children but according to his daughter Zeena, he was the passive witness to the molestation of his grandson Stanton, by a Church of Satan member. LaVey would reverse himself on many issues over the years. At first, the church of Satan welcomed gays and lesbians, but when LaVey saw the only people he could attract were mostly Neo-Nazis, his later writings gave hints of racism and of being anti-gay. After his death, the truth about him came out, but people still

plunk down $7.95 for his "Satanic Bible", which is mostly plagiarized from other sources (Atlas Shrugged, Might Is Right, and the writings of Aleister Crowley) . Of course most Satanists would tell you it's the "worship of the self". Most people who identify themselves as Satanists are the "LaVeyian" variety. Anton LaVey was a liar, fraud, bankrupt wife beating pimp. BTW, one idiot actually had the nerve to say "Everyone beat their wife in the fifties" when informed of this(even though he beat Diane from the 60's into the 80's). And no, not everyone did, and it was still wrong. This shows that rather than standing on their own two feet, Satanists slavishly make excuses for their cult figure, not unlike they way Scientologists do fo L. Ron Hubbard. LaVey was apraoched by Avon books to wrote a book on witchcraft to cash in on the occult craze of the 1960's. He cobbled together "The Satanic Bible" from a forgotten right-wing political tract (Where of the material from the Book of Satan

comes from), Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and the superstitous occult material of John Dee. LaVey never really seemed to know what Satanism was himself. Some of his writings seemed atheistic, at other times he called Satan "the dark side of nature" and often refers to Satan as a personification. One thing is for certian, the Satanic Bible gives specific instructions on timing, tools to be used, specific rituals for sex spells, revenge spells, etc (The Book of Belial)., and it seemed he expected results. Eventually, people realized the spells didn't work, and so began the whole "Well, it's really a philosophy" excuse. In the 1980's, when LaVey was living in poverty he then claimed he was shunning consumer materialism ( a complete role reversal from "Indulgence instead of abstinence!") ala Pee Wee Herman's "I meant to do that!" LaVey claimed that nuts were given "the bum's rush" when trying to join the Church of Satan, but clearly nut was in the eye of the beholder. LaVey has admited to

holding a "Cannibal feast" of a human leg in at least 3 books. The Satanic Bible &Satanic Rituals certainly describe many things most normal people would consider pychotic such as Nude girl is used as an altar (Satanic Bible, Satanic Rituals)A human skull is used in Die Elektrischen Vorspiele ritual (Satanic Rituals, p. 109)Human leg bone or arm bone is used in Homage to Tchort ritual (p.137) Woman dressed as nun urinates before group into a bedpan in the Black Mass ritual (p.43) Urine is then sprinkled like holy water (p.44)Man climbs into coffin with nude woman (or nude man if he is gay) in Le Epais ritual (p.59). As a "philosophy", Satanism could be boiled down to hedonism, which was hardly a new idea in the 1960's. Oddly enough, most Satanists don't fit the bill as swingers. Some seem to lead fairly uneventful lives. Here's an example: "I've been forced to give up coffee - the acid was responsible for a minor ulcer and I can no longer take any chances with my health. This was my s

This was my solitary vice - now it is gone. I do not drink, do not smoke, do not use recreational drugs and have nothing remotely resembling a sex life!" --"Lord" Egan of "The First Church of Satan" Wow! What a swinger! So then the picture begins to develop that Satanism is not so much a philosophy of life as it is a fantasy; a means to escape a life not worth living. To anyone intersested in becoming a Satanist, my advice is to rethink the whole thing and try reading something more worth while and life affirming, like C.S. Lewis."

So didn't I answer the question???

No rukkiding, I've seen longer answers than this on Yahoo Answers.

No chrisj it's not personal opinion...unless you call QUOTING THE ACTUAL BOOK somehow to be personal opinion! The accounts of wife beating came from the LaVey family. All these things have been known for years. I did give a link in my answer:
http://usminc.org/satanism/html

LOL! What does your foot taste like Mrssunshine? If you actually read the answer you would see it is ANTI-SATANIC, not pro. And have you never heard of C.S. Lewis, church lady??? Pax Christi.

Steveo, I AM the person I took it from! I also listed an URL + all the books on Satanism I read.

I have one Jeff.

No Stanton, the Torah is included in the Bible (it's the first 5 books of the Old Testament). I used to enjoy it too...but I wised up.

Answer 1

I don't understand why they would delete it. Clearly you answered the question.

I also don't understand why they didn't delete this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahq1T_xxxECHBlKntSjH4VwjzKIX?qid=20070108163833AAGoDeV

This kid will probably blow up a school! (It's by a Satanist too, BTW).

Maybe Yahoo Answers is biased against Christians and biased in favor of anybody else.

Answer 2

No. dependancy does not equivalent devil. Yahoo solutions is designed to help human beings, and type a community on the cyber web. Jsut because of the fact something is addicting does no longer advise it has to do with the devil. with tips from that line, foodstuff is satanic, because of the fact human beings consume foodstuff, get hooked on it, and consume greater, and advantages themselves with foodstuff. Weight Watchers foodstuff has factors. foodstuff IS EVIL! NOOOO! And respiratory, persons are hooked on respiratory. And water.

Answer 3

You certainly answered the question! You should write for wikipedia! I guess the Satanists couldn't take a dose of reality that their leader was a psychotic loser and whinned about it to Yahoo Answers.

Answer 4

What ever the reason - your answer has now been read by
how many people will respond and by some that did not.
So, you got your message across.
Good job!

Answer 5

I think you need to read the Bible. Satan is the devil.. What your answer revealed is you know a lot about death basically. That is what Satan is: death. If you read the Bible you will find that GOD is about love. Love towards others and fear him as you would a loving father. I couldn't read everything you had as I don't want to be polluted with such negative images.
Pray to GOD that he will grant you peace and serentity towards doing the right thing.
and yes, you may disagree with my answer, but this is the free world as people say, but I would rather share the truth with you. It may just save your life.
Good luck.

Answer 6

The bible is just a plagarization of the Torah, why do people bother to get that?

Seriously, dude, relax. It's okay. Magus' do die poor, maybe it's an unintended shedding of attachment. Who knows?

And yes, I do agree with your site regarding LaVey, but that dosen't change the fact I enjoy his philosophy.

Answer 7

Although I do not agree with your take on the book, I would have to agree with you that "technically" you did answer the question and you appear to have read the book.

Answer 8

Sounds pretty much what a Satanist would be like. Jesus respects woman and children.

Answer 9

My guess is that it was removed because it is simply a huge copy and paste from a website and not original. If you want to quote a (copyright) website, you should copy and paste the URL.

I do not think that its removal had anything at all to do with Satanism. Yahoo don't work like that.

Answer 10

Because many people do not see Satanism as a legit religion.