When was the pentagram used as a satanic symbol?
The Greek spiritual leader Pythagoras adopted as the symbol of his group an upright pentagram (three points up, two down) within a circle and with a jewel in the center somewhere around 500 BC. Gerald Gardner, founder of the Neo-Pagan religion of Wicca adopted the Pythagorean pentagram as their symbol as well and today that is what it commonly understood to mean. Wiccan Chaplains in the U.S. military wear the pentagram-in-a-circle the same way a Christian chaplain would wear a cross. The Christians have been declaring any symbols other than there own to be satanic for over a thousand years, don’t forget that they also said that about the Star of David in the 19th century and about the International Symbol for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1960s. It was because of the Christian propaganda the Anton Szandor LaVey, who founded the 1st Church of Satan in the mid 1960s, adopted the inverted pentagram (two points up, three down) as the symbol of his Satanic Church and finally made it official t
