"I give people Ayn Rand with trappings." - Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan.

[TheWraith]

Kind of sums it all up, no?

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Indeed. (nt)

[The Traveler]

2. Yep. And it is doubtless accurate. n/t

[Kurska]

3. This thread is going to be 100 posts of "Yup sounds right" isn't it?

I'm laughing right now.

[TheWraith]

4. If so, I don't mind. It's useful to remind everyone who the real enemy is.

Hint: there's tea involved.

[Safetykitten]

5. But can they service all the republicans? That could be an issue.

[Rabblevox]

6. At least LaVey was honest about his intentions. /nt

[Warren DeMontague]

7. What really bugged me was when he helped all those child abusers escape prosecution.

Oh, wait, sorry, that was the Pope.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. He died in 1997...well before the current Ayn Rand resurgence

[originalpckelly]

9. Satan is everything that we are told not to like but should.

Sex, good music, anything fun has been associated with Satan in history.

Honestly, God's the one giving cancer to little children, Satan just wants them to be laid when they become teenagers.

I think I'm in the Satan column if I had to choose. Then again, I'm an atheist, so it's all a bunch of bullshit to me. But still.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. I think you'll find if you read about LaVey, he didn't buy into the idea of a personified evil diety

Meaning, he thought the idea of the Devil was bollocks.

He was basically a Hedonist, he just used the moniker of Satanist to piss off Christians.

[originalpckelly]

11. Of course.

That's the point, it's just to fuck with people's heads a little.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. One of my favorite speaches in moviedom is Al Pacino's in "The Devils Advocate"

Where he basically says "I am a FAN of man, I never judged him"...etc. etc.

[Rabblevox]

13. DAMN YOU! ( for making me add to my netflix queue)...Great movie. /nt

[Odin2005]

14. Pretty much.