how many satanist groups r there?

Question

i just read about how halloween started and it's pretty interesting,but it's not the iformation that i want.

Answer 1

There are several. The Church of Satan, The Temple of Set, Abraxas Foundation of Evil, and many more. Many Satanists don't belong to a group, because they are basically loners.

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 for L. Ron Hubbard, or Moonies for Rev. Moon.

LaVey was approached 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 (Enochian "Magic").

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. Even COS defector Aquino admits LaVey was never clear if Satan was real or not, sometimes calling him, "the man downstairs".

Eventually, people who tried the Satanic Bible 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!" But the Satanic Bible gives details for 3 spells, for revenge, sex, and getting Satan's compassion (!) It is quite specific about timing of rituals, instruments to be used, clothing, etc. It seems from this, LaVey was implying results could be achieved through magic. There is a chapter in the Satanic Bible called "On The Choice of Human Sacrifice" which Satanists claim means a victim is to be killed by a curse, not by actually murdering them. But therein lies a problem for the Satanists who don't believe in magic, because then how can they kill their victims with a curse?

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 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 seeking spiritual answers, you might try the non-fiction writings of C.S. Lewis instead.

Answer 2

Halloween doesn't have to do with Satan. It is an old Celtic tradition.
It depends on what you mean by Satanist groups. If you mean people who actually worship the devil, there are almost no people past the age of 18 this silly. There was a lot of hysteria about people like this in the 1980s, but it was overblown sensationalism.
There is a Church of Satan, started by Anton LaVey, but they are an Atheist group that doesn't believe in the devil or God. They call themselves Satanists as kind of a publicity stunt.

Answer 3

Since only a very few of those groups ever go through the process of becomind a functing church, there is no way to actually know how many such groups there are. Some estimatea have put the number in just the US as several hundred, but that is only a rough guess.

Answer 4

Satanist group are people who belong to Satan the great red Dragon. the satanist groups are the third of mankind. And therefore the muliplication among the holy ones are none stop.

Answer 5

There is the church of Satan, founded by lavey, in 1966. He also wrote the Satanic Bible (which is freely available for reading on the net), a hugely influential piece of work in underground media.

There's also the first satanic church. I'm not sure how powerful they are.

check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism
http://www.churchofsatan.com/

Answer 6

hundreds back when i lived in Sacramento i knew three different group and i got along with them just fine

Answer 7

Hallowe'en and Satanism have as much in common as scuba gear and the desert.

Answer 8

Carl Sagan: There are Billions and Billions...

Answer 9

y would u research on how halloween got started...

neways the only one i know is the church of satan

Answer 10

So what are you wanting??? what's your question?