Satanism is a religon that involves spritual practices. Not animal sacrifices or maniacs bent on killing people for "Satan" no it is a... hmmm Spritual and all-loving religion. That is abused and misused in everyday life. It is a Pagan religion meaning noramlly polytheistic and to be created and founded first for people. Yes Satanism is polytheistic it believes in all the Demons and Demonesses there is, but they are good and angels are evil and there is no such thing as god Just Satan and his brother's and sister's and his Wife and all the other Demon's there are. They believe hell is a place you can visit if you find a gate to hell. And they see auras by opening their third-eyes. And they believe in reincarnation-die then born again- They believe in the winter solstice as a religion and many other holidays are placed alot of their artifacts were covered up by Christians trying to hide them and use them such as the Ankh-found in egypt- And some others I don't know the names to. And they also believe in meditation as a way to open your mind and stregthen your body and soul. Beleives in chakras also. And many more things, but those things would take forever to name.

There are many brands of Satanism, I'll outline 2 of these:

First, there is LaVey (I think) Satanism. This promotes worship of one's self, practicing indulgence in the 7 "deadly" sins, and other such things. This is pretty much just a step up from Atheism where instead of the high range of morals that Atheists have, you get "lower" morals. (An Atheist can still believe in what the Cristian Church preaches in terms of morals. i.e. monogamy, abstinence before marriage, etc. while not believing in God. LaVey Satanists can't have similar morals to the Church.) This practice has nothing to do at all with Lucifer, or any of his followers. These are not bad people, freaks, or any of the other labels they've been given on this site.

Another type of Satanist is the Lucifarian (SP?) Satanists, who worship Lucifer (Satan, The Devil, The Fallen Angel, The Morning Star) as their idol. These people worship Lucifer because he is the bringer of forbidden light, he wanted humanity to have the knowledge that God and his angels do. I think they believe in a sort of "unholy trinity" consisting of Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Astaroth(SP?), though I'm not sure about that last point.

something that most people think is bad but its not and most satanist dont worship the devil.thats called levay satanism. they worship satan as a symbol of freedom and power and indepence.
then theres spirtual satanism and traditional i think these to differ form each other but bascily they believe satan as a being but not as an evil being but a god .
and being a satanist dosent mean killing and orgies like some people say thiose people are weird and crazy.

Satanism is comonly thought to be one who worships the devil wich is quite wrong because that would be called a Luciferrian now a Satanist is someone who only believes in themselve they believe in there own religon they believe in pleasing themselves " self indulgece" wich to most people is considered one of the 7 deadly sins But Once again a Satanist is not someone who worships the devil

An shallow atheistic "religion" that is a facade of pretentious moral subjectivism, mixing anti-christian and pagan imagery with a watered-down version of the philosophies of Nietzsche and the Marquis de Sade, that appeals largely to angry teenagers, Black Metal bands, and those who want to rebell against the percieved hypocrisy of religion and morality to justify their own selfishness.

Satanism doesn ' t mean you worship the devil ,
in ancient hebrew , satan meant the opposer ,
Satan opposes the hypocritical morals of the so called " holy church " and its followers ,
so basicly , if you follow satanism ,
that just means your an atheist ,
a aggressive atheist

1. To actually worship the devil. There is Luciferianism, but for the most part this is just a lie created by the church to strengthen people's faith in god. See bullshit.

2. Created by Anton Szandor LaVey, this is a religion that is basically Ayn Rand's and Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy set to rules and satanic imagery.

3. Setian Satanism, worshiping the Egyptian god of the desert, storms, and chaos, Set (Pronounced Seth)