There’s No Such Thing As An “Ex-Satanist”

Any real Satanist who has done plenty of study knows this: Satanists are born, not made.  Satanism isn’t for everyone.

After you read The Satanic Bible, you saw a reflection of yourself, your ideas, and your philosophies that you’ve naturally had through most of your life.  You don’t just read the book and say “I like these ideas; I’m going to adopt them and ‘become’ a Satanist.”

To use an example I saw on a Facebook post, it’s like saying a heterosexual person suddenly decides they are attracted to the same gender.  It doesn’t work that way.  You’re born heterosexual.  You don’t just suddenly change your attraction out of the blue.  You were born this way.

So it irks me whenever I scroll through YouTube videos or news articles where the person being interviewed says they’re an “ex-Satanist.”  Now, I haven’t gone through those videos and articles because of the point I’m trying to make here.  But being a Satanist means you abide by a certain code of principles you’ve had for nearly all your life.  When someone calls themselves an “ex-Satanist,” that means they suddenly changed their supposed natural philosophies.  To me, that shows they never had those principles, to begin with.

One thing I’m willing to bet on is that the people claiming they used to be Satanists probably joined some whacko cult that had some stupid ideas about what Satanism is supposedly about or they joined some fake Satanic groups that gave these individuals a bad time and disillusionment.  Most likely these groups probably don’t even follow the principles of The Satanic Bible.

There are some people who have actually joined the Church of Satan but left because of conflict with some of its members or they had issues with how the CoS was like.  For a variety of reasons, people leave the CoS.  There’s a problem when they start calling themselves “Ex-Satanists” solely because of personal issues they’ve had with the organization or some of its members.  That’s another implication that they’ve never actually naturally had the principles of The Satanic Bible on their person and they’ve had certain wrong kinds of expectations from joining the CoS.

I always say when you leave an organization, you do just that very thing.  You don’t change who you’ve already been your whole life just because you had issues with being in a certain organization.  A certain organization doesn’t define who you are.

You’re a Satanist because you have a natural set of principles that are reflected in The Satanic Bible and you've held those principles forever.  You don’t need to be part of some organization to consider yourself a Satanist.  But if you ever say that you “used to be” a Satanist, you were never one in the first place.  Also, if you try to change your natural principles just because you wanna join the CoS, you’re lying to yourself and you’re a phony.  Remember the Fourth Satanic Sin about self-deceit.

-Hail Satan!

-Manny