That's the thing though, they don't want every other random moron on the street joining. They only want intelligent members who are going to be worth teaching and be serious about it.
Oh, but the name "satanism" is so sodding provocative, it's like calling your religion "the baby killers." Not only does it make it impossible for nice-but-boring people (who make up the majority of the population) to support you, it also ensures that a large proportion of fresh converts are going to be sad losers out to offend their parents.
And I suppose God would forgive Satan. It's important to remember that (in christianity anyway), satan isn't the opposite of God, he's less than him. We're not comparing Winston Churchill and Hitler, were comparing Winny and Corporal Naziman of the Wehrmacht...
good...if i had a religion, id sure as hell not want "random nice but boring people" joining, id want people who actually spent the time to sit down, read, comprehend and process the teachings and make decisions that way.. if they wanted people joining for nothing they call it "free-icecream-when-you-joinism"
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ok, tied up that loose end....
Sammael is infact the actual person reffered to in the stories about Satan. Lucifer is the leader of the Fallen Angels.....but Sammael is the commonly know "Devil/Satan"
this should finalise the point that Satan is just a made up word, and has no real tangible association with the bible... if Satanism was truly about devil-worship, surely theyd be well-informed enough to take the actual name for it (like the Luciferianists)