After the fight pagans of every stripe have had to go through to gain respect over the years, your exclusion of any particular group due to personal prejudices is somewhat counter-productive. Do you actually know any Satanists? Have you had any real dialogue with Satanists? You mention all the threads that debate this topic, but your responses on this thread show a clear lack of any real understanding on your part. I'm guessing you didn't actually read any of these threads with an open mind. It seems that a LOT of people see the big scary word SATAN, and immediately form all kinds of opinions. they decide that they can define someone elses religion for them (usually based on hearsay and propaganda they were indoctrinated with in their christian upbringing). How would you like it if someone was constantly trying to tell you what your religion was(and getting it woefully wrong, by the way), and refusing to listen when you tried to explain what is actually about? I imagine you would become rather frustrated. Especially after explaining it several different ways over and over again to the same person, yet they refuse to open their minds to the possibility they might not know it all! What we are trying to say is that you should step back and look at how bigoted your stance on this matter is. Hopefully one day your mind will widen a bit!