The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal self, as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey.
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Famous quotes containing the words church of, church and/or satan:
“Now folks, I hereby declare the first church of Tombstone, which aint got no name yet or no preacher either, officially dedicated. Now I dont pretend to be no preacher, but Ive read the Good Book from cover to cover and back again, and I nary found one word agin dancin. So well commence by havin a dad blasted good dance.”
—Samuel G. Engel (19041984)
“The church is a sort of hospital for mens souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!”
—Eliza Mother Stewart (1816c. 1908)