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This is getting silly. You want to take the ancient meaning of the word Satan, but only use the modern meaning of pagan.

Of course Satan has been present on earth from the beginning in many names.

If we take the HUGE leap that you have, as in your words here:

Paganism Paganism, in the broadest sense includes all religions other than the true one revealed by God, and, in a narrower sense, all except Christianity, Judaism, and Mohammedanism.

Compare these two examples you give and you get: Paganism = Satanism

Then you, admitting to being neither a Christian, Jew or Moslem are in fact saying you are a Satanist!.

See, I knew I had you pegged from the beginning.

You want to take the ancient meaning of the word Satan, but only use the modern meaning of pagan.

Hebrew is an ancient language. English is a modern, evolving language.

Then you, admitting to being neither a Christian, Jew or Moslem are in fact saying you are a Satanist!.

No. You are saying it...

For an atheist such as myself, Satan is an esoteric hobgoblin, a phantasm of many things combined that is worshipped on Halloween by pagans and Judeo-Christians alike.

Let's return to Thomas Hobbes, the expert in language...

Part III. Of a Christian Commonwealth.
Chap. xxxviii. Of Eternal Life, Hell, Salvation, and Redemption.
[12] And first, for the tormentors, we have their nature and properties exactly and properly delivered by the names of the Enemy (or Satan), the Accuser (or Diabolus), the Destroyer (or Abaddon). Which significant names (Satan, Devil, Abaddon) set not forth to us any individual person, as proper names do, but only an office or quality, and are therefore appellatives, which ought not to have been left untranslated (as they are in the Latin and modern Bibles), because thereby they seem to be the proper names of demons, and men are the more easily seduced to believe the doctrine of devils, which at that time was the religion of the Gentiles, and contrary to that of Moses, and of Christ.
[13] And because by the Enemy, the Accuser, and Destroyer, is meant the enemy of them that shall be in the kingdom of God, therefore if the kingdom of God after the resurrection be upon the earth (as in the former Chapter I have shewn by Scripture it seems to be), the Enemy and his kingdom must be on earth also. For so also was it in the time before the Jews had deposed God. For God's kingdom was in Israel, and the nations round about were the kingdoms of the Enemy; and consequently, by Satan is meant any earthly enemy of the Church.