“Finally, the real irony is the church invented Satanism from whole cloth to demonize pagans, and now you are incensed when people mimic it.”
I’ll just re-post that as one of the sillier ideas.
BTW, Satanists are not pagans. They are Satanists. Wiccans, anamists, and a whole host of other religions are pagan.
Satanists worship Satan.
For some reason, your name did not post.
See above.
Precisely. The church in the middle ages labeled witches and other pagans as "Satan worshippers" in order to discredit and persecute them. There is not one shred of evidence that anyone worshiped Satan prior to Christianity. The only evidence Satanism existed is from accusations by the Church itself.