{"id":13677,"date":"2020-03-09T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2020-03-10T17:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:19:41","slug":"what-exactly-are-satanists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/03\/09\/what-exactly-are-satanists\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly are satanists?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AW03092020-03-e1583801700705.jpeg\" alt=\"What exactly are satanists? Do they follow a religion, and should we fear them?\" class=\"wp-image-13669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AW03092020-03-e1583801700705.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AW03092020-03-e1583801700705-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AW03092020-03-e1583801700705-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AW03092020-03-e1583801700705-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>What exactly are satanists? Do they follow a religion, and should we fear them?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nSatanist is a broad and varied category: some are theistic and believe in the existence of a literal Satan, while others use Lucifer as the original symbol of resistance and bringer of enlightenment to humankind. Much like any religion or worldview, there&#8217;s a huge variety in what Satanists believe (and how scary they may be). A good place to start would be learning about mainstream American satanism as practiced by LaVey&#8217;s Church of Satan or The Satanic Temple. Or enjoy the OG Satan that inspired the religious movements by reading Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost!\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satanist is a broad and varied category: some are theistic and believe in the existence of a literal Satan, while others use Lucifer as the original symbol of resistance and bringer of enlightenment to humankind. Much like any religion or worldview, there&#8217;s a huge variety in what Satanists believe (and how scary they may be). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/03\/09\/what-exactly-are-satanists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What exactly are satanists?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13691,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions\/13691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}