In the year 1844, a German philosopher was born. Friedrich Nietzsche refuted the worship of religion in general and any system that undermines the individuality of the human. In 1888, he published a book and assumed the mantle of the Anti-Christ. Friedrich saw himself as a heralder of the death of Christianity and Christian morality. He believed that this would leave a void, and suggested a solution - thankfully, it did not involve inventing a religion called Satanism. He resisted the temptation to create another social organization with a set of rules and levels or layers of stratification - a group identity that would diminish the importance of its individual members.
We now turn the clock ahead to the year 1966. Anton LaVey, a student of Nietzsche from San Francisco, is encouraged to create a "Church of Satan" by professional publicist Ed Webber. Anton was told that the press was going to flip out over all this and that he would get a lot of notoriety. The gimmick worked and LaVey became a popular cultural icon. Tragically, this new religion does overshadow the "satanic" philosophy proposed by Nietzsche and tries to replace it with something less desirable. Our web site, with its links and video clips, go into depth explaining how and why this happens.
