Nature
There are millions of mammals on this planet. We are all on the top half of the food chain; under us are billions upon billions of subjected life forms from bacteria and mould to insects and fish. The higher up the food chain you are, the more multiples of creatures have died to provide you with sustenance. Nature is violent, amoral, uncaring, deadly and dangerous. Simple survival is not a luxury afforded to many creatures for very long.
What religion, in the name of truth and honesty, reflects the violence and desperation of the natural life? What religion upholds the symbols that nod a head to the sacrifices of brutal reality? Real life, below the surface of our noble conscious existence, is so immoral, short, pained and traumatic that not many face it. They turn away and look towards distracting figureheads of love and happiness. They deceive themselves. Real life; the life of the world, is not often represented or illuminated by religious texts or preachers. People want religion to be an escape from the truth. Satanism is not a religion for such people.
Satan represents nature:
"Satan is the dark force in nature. Satanists do not see that nature contains a dark and light force, the dark force is nature. Nature is uncaring, part of its natural processes is death. Satan is death, a returning to the Earth of one's own elements. Good is derived from chaos and evil and not from will or motive. Altruism is long term selfishness and the recognition of this forms the Satanists' reverence for the dark force in nature. "
The Old Religion
They say that the oldest trade is prostitution. Only the bravest or most naive anthropologists would disagree. Likewise the oldest religious principles of the world have nothing to do with hugging trees, lighting candles, chanting in harmony with one-another or admiring beautiful sunsets. All of these are the blind human artefacts of dishonest distractions. The oldest religion of the natural world is reproduction, feeding and territory.
Those who claim that their religion is natural truth or "old", must surely include in their reverence of all things green the blood and strife of natural life. To be in harmony with nature is not to be in a pleasant place at all! Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, summarizes that Humanity, with its great power and understanding that is frequently turned into tools of war and hate, has not deviated from the plan of the natural world, but expresses it in an advanced form!:
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"Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his "divine spiritual and intellectual development," has become the most vicious animal of all!"
Anton LaVey. Number 7 of the 9 Satanic Statements
Donna Black, a witch behind the United Kingdom's Satanic magazine, "Rule Satannia", despairs at the ignorance of modern-era religionists:
"Do they ever stop to consider what living in harmony with nature actually means? It means survival of the fittest, death to the weak, live and let die, kill or be killed. This is all very admirable but you won't find a Wiccan or Pagan who practices it. Living in harmony with nature does not mean collecting crystals, chanting to the goddess and lighting candles to heal the earth. Nature isn't all love, peace and baby animals. Nature is birth, sex, death, instincts, survival, predator and prey. It is fangs, flesh and fucking."
All Human Development is an Altar of Satanism
The Human species survives on the unnatural: Technology, science, understanding and knowledge (the four biggest threats to religion!) have turned our existence into a frivolous and headstrong rollercoaster ride completely divorced from the realities of the food chain. We are cut off from nature, and we should be rightfully thankful for it, too!
But we can only be thankful for our privileged position on Earth if we first understand and admit, even revere, the fact that the natural world is violent, aggressive, and dangerous, and that we are the cream of the crop.
"It is worked out from maggots unto man the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole Earth continually steeped in blood is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end. Without constraint. Without remorse. Until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil and the death of death."
Our enlightened sciences and our religious zealots do well to remember that all our accomplishments are a slap in the face of all the lower species. A sombre altar to truth would include symbols of blood, struggle, love and violence. Only species that sit atop this carnage have the peace of mind to devote time to philosophical questions and love. Only as a result of bloodshed and violence can the higher species enjoy their most noble emotions and concepts. Only upon an unholy altar of pain and sacrifice can sit the values of intelligence, love, compassion and sorrow. Only at the top of the food chain can we look down and judge life, and feel superior because of our "understanding" of the world! Only a hypocrite can talk about love, and not also revere the death and sacrifices that go on in nature in order to provide us with food! All should hail Satan and take a moment to reflect on the cold realities of life: Fangs, Flesh and Fucking are the three pillars of all goodness and to deny them prominence is to embody self-deception and wishful thinking.