Queer Satanic<p>occasionally, we get people in our social media inboxes asking, "how do I become a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Satanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satanist</span></a>?"</p><p>and, look, there's no one "right" way to do <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Satanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satanism</span></a>. some people are big on ritual or even magic; others include nothing of the sort. some have an aesthetic that's all goat-y & skulls; others don't even wear black</p><p>BUT</p><p>if the story you're referencing is about rejecting the eternal hierarchies of an omnipotent tyrant, and your takeaway is "smash every enemy weak enough to be smashed, lick every boot more powerful than you"—it could be there are better figures to use for religious inspiration, ya know?</p><p>(also, if you really wanna become a Satanist, reading <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Malatesta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malatesta</span></a> would not be the worst place to start)</p><p><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-an-anarchist-programme" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theanarchistlibrary.org/librar</span><span class="invisible">y/errico-malatesta-an-anarchist-programme</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnarchoSatanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchoSatanism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SatanicAntifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SatanicAntifascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Satanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satanic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SatanicMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SatanicMemes</span></a></p>