What this illustrates is that, despite its current position as the scapegoat for everything wrong with the world, chrstianity remains the default religious setting for the "western" world. Therefore, if one is going to rebel, one rebels against it and it alone, and even goes so far as to befriend and ally with even more reactionary religions just so long as they may be defined as traditional "victims" of chrstianity. Just think a moment: would any sane person literally subscribe to "satanism," scientific atheism, fundamentalist islam, nature worship, eastern religions, and the shamanisms of "indigenous pipples" simultaneously? All of these positions are mutually exclusive! It isn't a rational belief system; its an irrational act of childish rebellion.
Historically, in any area or time where two "gxds" are acknowledged, both will have their worshipers. Because chrstianity gives Satan a will independent of G-d (which he doesn't have) and has him engaging in primeval battle with G-d (which he's never done and can't do), it has created its own dark shadow. Satanism is at its heart simply chrstianity inverted, and would have no power or appeal whatsoever if the chrstian worldview were not still ascendant.
In the Middle Ages the "satanists" hung the crucifix upside down, recited the Latin mass backwards, and "desecrated the host." In the modern world they go out of their way to tweak chrstian sensibilities by the above-described logically irreconcilable positions. The "satanist" hostility does not, as naive chrstians believe, "prove" that chrstianity is the true religion. "Satanism" is part and parcel of chrstianity itself.
Whether there are actually some people today who actually believe in and worship "lucifer" and believe they are defeating the "demiurge" by bringing about a "luciferian" new world order I don't know. I only know that the only "lucifer" there ever was is a planet. But that doesn't mean that there aren't idiots out there who believe it. But then, this is merely another example of an inverted chrstianity. Without a chrstianity teaching such an entity existed, there would be no one to worship it.
PS: The strangest part of this rebellion is that the ultimate "victims of chrstianity" in the liberal mind are "Blacks and Hispanics," who are chrstians themselves, and whose versions of chrstianity must be exempted from critique and celebrated as though they were the aboriginal dreamtime.
> Some satanists are the real deal; they practice a religion of “satan” worship (”satan” as defined by chrstianity, of course).
Those satanists should know better. They stopped worshiping a man of flesh and blood. Yet they worship satan instead. Really?
Satanism violates the Torah Law prohibition of creating a new religion. Satan has no important theological role in the Torah. HaShem rules heaven, hell and the whole universe with infinite power. HaShem is the Lord of Light. HaShem is the Lord of Darkness. HaShem creates good and evil. HaShem gives life and death.