Is the Church of Satan the stupidest bunch of cobblers ever?
LaVey was affiliated with some underground Satanists and that is where he got his inspirations from. He decided to use their ideals while mixing it with his atheistic ideals and then formed the Church of Satan, the first above ground form of Satanism, which people confuse to be the first wave of Satanists. I don’t care about them being symbolic Satanists, because Satanic philosophy teaches following your own accord, but when they start talking down on other Satanists to make themselves look superior they are becoming part of the problem and not the solution. It is these phony Satanists that I dislike that do not follow or understand Satanic philosophy.