The founder of the Church of Satan, established on April 30 – May 1st , 1966, was Anton LaVey (1930-1997).
History
“Anton knew the date upon which the first Church of Satan must be established. It would have to be during the traditional night of the most important demonic celebration of the year, when witches and devils roam the earth, orgiastically glorifying the fruition of the Spring equinox: Walpurgisnacht, the night of April 30th—May 1st.
LaVey shaved his head as part of a formalized founding ritual, in the tradition of medieval executioners, carnival strongmen, and black magicians before him, to gain personal power and enhance the forces surrounding his newly-established Satanic order. It was the enactment of an allusion at the end of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan: an incantation rejecting the Holy Trinity and the spiritual life in favor of one devoted to Hell and material pursuits.” (From churchofsatan.com – 8/5/2015)
Doctrine
“As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work, The Satanic Bible, Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling. Worshipping any God is thus worshipping by proxy those who invented that God. Since the Satanist understands that all Gods are fiction, instead of bending a knee in worship to—or seeking friendship or unity with—such mythical entities, he places himself at the center of his own subjective universe as his own highest value.
We Satanists are thus our own ‘“Gods,”’ and as beneficent ‘“deities”’ we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm.” (From churchofsatan.com – 8/5/2015)
An Abomination to God
The Church of Satan glorifies hell, blasphemes and denies the God of heaven, and is devoted to material pursuits and self-pleasures. They are their own gods. They have no respect for the true God or His Holy Word.
God warned Israel about demon associations in the following passage:
“When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you. (Deut. 18:9-14)
It is an abomination to God for us to have any association, contact, or involvement with demons, witchcraft, sorcery, spiritists, palm readers, horoscopes, soothsayers, casting spells, one who interprets dreams or omens, Ouija boards, and those who try to make contact with the dead. As Christians, we need to stay away from all such activities. We need to stay away from books, television, movies, the internet, entertainment, and other means of communication that has anything to do with these demonic pursuits. God hates these things.
Everlasting Torment
The Bible clearly tells us that hell and the lake of fire are places of eternal punishment and torment for those who reject Jesus Christ, the Son of God. They receive the wrath of God. (John 3:36) It is certainly not a place to glorify or ever want to be.
There are some who believe in the false doctrine of annihilation. This is the belief that after the demon or unbeliever is cast in the lake of fire he is immediately burned up and dies or is annihilated and therefore has no more torment. The following verses, among others, make it clear that the being who is cast into the lake of fire remains alive and will receive eternal torment which never is quenched or stops.
43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 44 where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ (Mark 9:43, 44)
10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (Rev. 20:10)
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.] 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:13-15)
Seek the Kingdom of God
We should not be worrying after material gain and satisfying our fleshly desires. We should seek instead to build up treasures in heaven that never fade away.
29 “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. 30 For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. 31 But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.
32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Luke 12:29-34)
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. (1 John 2:15-17)
Satan is the great deceiver. He deceived Eve, he tried and failed to deceive Jesus, and works overtime to deceive both unbelievers and Christians. Why would anyone hold allegiance to such an evil being as Satan? The followers of Satan don’t have to be members of the Church of Satan. Everyone who rejects Jesus Christ is already a child of the devil. Jesus, speaking to the unbelieving Jews, said the following:
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. (John 8:44)
Don’t let Satan, demons, or his followers deceive you about Jesus Christ and everlasting life in heaven!