Hail Satan!
Hail Satan!
Even though Ive been on this site for awhile, I still consider myself a newbie as well. I was raised in a very religious home and I always felt it was forced on me. As I got older and started to find my own path, I discovered satanism through my love of the "dark side". After reading the Satanic Bible that made more sense to me then anything else. How did you come to be here??
Rawhead1313
Christianity was also forced on me when I was younger (age 11+) because everyone in my family went, and so I had to go along too instead of staying at home without adult supervision. I also discovered Satanism through "The Satanic Bible" because a classmate wrote down that book and the "Necronomicon" for me on a piece of paper. I went and got those two books without my parents knowing. I was 17. They wouldn't have bought it for me (I was still in school and not working yet, so I used my allowance) because they were heavily involved in the church.
I live in Ontario, Canada. The churches I have been to and the sermons the pastors preach don't have anything to do with Satan or spiritual warfare against him. I think that's more in the USA, because I have read books by American authors who wrote those kinds of books. I also sought out Satan through reading some of those spiritual warfare books because I thought I could learn about him that way. The church lies about him. I sensed this and kept looking for other literature about him. I wanted to know him better. I was in my early 20s at the time.
I'm still getting to know him. I am a theistic Satanist.
Thanks for replying, I enjoyed reading your post!
Scorbius
As a young child I was drawn to horned figures from minotaurs to the gargoyles from the cartoon Gargoyles. In my preteen years I started to resent my Islamic upbringing (and the concept of dogma in general) and would occasionally flirt with the idea of turning to Shaitan/Iblis. I felt that at least Shaitan wouldn't make me have to live a rigid life of purity in order to get the promise of some alleged paradise. I met a wiccan one day in high school which inspired me to learn about paganism. I would go to the New Age section and ended up with several books. I still had passing thoughts about worshipping Satan in high school so around my junior year of high school I decided to finally go with my thoughts. That lasted like two years. I spent some time away from Satanism but several years later I came back. This my true path.
Hello, malwin5 here, I am newish here and am learning of The Concept of Satanism in this modern World, and indeed giving thought to becoming, one day in the future, a practising Satanist, physically and spiritually, so I am beginning to learn the ways of Satan, so being here at SIN, is a part of my own learning process, and this is an awesomely interesting place, for I, thank you.
So, for I, Satanism is, for this moment, a way to indulge myself in humane and pleasurable hedonistic deep and dark sexual delights, by Worshipping The Dark One, Satan, whom is represented, for The World, in the form of The Baphomet, Primal Parent Figure.
Should I ever do so, indulge in the worship, that is, I need to know how to do this and survive the experience intact, so for I, Humane Satanism is the way forward.
So, I guess that Satan is drawing me to Himself, gradually and progressively according to my own desires and wishes, which for I, nowadays, are all humane.
Kind regards from malwin5, HAIL SATAN.
What sealed the deal was a trip I had taken to LA a few years back. I went into a bookstore in the San Fernando Valley and happened to find three different books on all things Satan. i started reading more on Satan and found myself drawn to him and to the religion.
When I did "come out" as a Satanist; I did come out as a Atheistic but I'm more and more drawn to the Theistic side.
but for a long time I was a Layean Satanist and slowly I was fed up with the atheism in that scene. I started to explore other path of Satanism and found spiritual/theistic satanism being more me.