Anton LaVey chose the term "Satanism" for his new religion because the word "satan" means "opposition" or "adversary" and he felt it fitting since the views he had expressed thus far in his midnight seminars with his little group of eccentrics were against God and all forms of conformity.


Shadow --There are many ..."organizations" that -claim- to be branches of the LaVey church, but those organizations strictly have nothing to do with the Church. (as claimed by the current High Magus)

Jordyn-- I'm not insulting your post (I hope), but there are literally hundreds of those sites. Especially the free ones, like geocities. a google search will give you alot of them. Mostly just kids.