10 Forms Of Satanism

[Lewis]

10 Forms Of Satanism That Exist Around The World

http://listverse.com/2015/10/26/10-forms-of-satanism-that-exist-around-the-world/

 

[MrWGW]

This list leaves much to be desired:

• It radically downplays Gnosticism, which via the Ophite conceit that the serpent was a sort of Christological allegory imparting life sacing gnosis to Eve, instructing ner to rebel abainst the evil demiurge, has historically been the most dominant form of theistic Satanism, in part because it largely rejects the notion of Satan; God as he appears in the OT becomes the new devil, as the incompetent or malign Demiurge, and Jesus is an emanation of a higher deity, the Monad, who has come to rescue Sophia and release the trapped prisoners of the Demiurge and his Archons.
• This heresy has been making rather a comeback in mainline Protestant denominations thanks to the influence of Elaine Pagels and Karen King on "progressive Christianity." See "A New New Testament."
• It ignores the Yazidi, who worship an Islamic conception of the devil, restyled the Peacock Angel, Taus Melek. This actually makes Yazidism rather palettable to Christians given the diabolical nature of Islamic fundamentalism; in the Genocide of 1915 Yazidis reportedly sheltered Armenians. The Yazidis are very possibly the descendents of Gnostic Christians, perhaps Encratites of some variety, who came under the influence of the Sufi mystic Sheikh Adi. See also Yarsanism.
• It ignores the widespread devotion to Durga/Kali in Hinduism.
• It blows out of proportion several "joke religions."

 

[SpagLard]

This list leaves much to be desired:

• It radically downplays Gnosticism, which via the Ophite conceit that the serpent was a sort of Christological allegory imparting life sacing gnosis to Eve, instructing ner to rebel abainst the evil demiurge, has historically been the most dominant form of theistic Satanism, in part because it largely rejects the notion of Satan; God as he appears in the OT becomes the new devil, as the incompetent or malign Demiurge, and Jesus is an emanation of a higher deity, the Monad, who has come to rescue Sophia and release the trapped prisoners of the Demiurge and his Archons.
• This heresy has been making rather a comeback in mainline Protestant denominations thanks to the influence of Elaine Pagels and Karen King on "progressive Christianity." See "A New New Testament."
• It ignores the Yazidi, who worship an Islamic conception of the devil, restyled the Peacock Angel, Taus Melek. This actually makes Yazidism rather palettable to Christians given the diabolical nature of Islamic fundamentalism; in the Genocide of 1915 Yazidis reportedly sheltered Armenians. The Yazidis are very possibly the descendents of Gnostic Christians, perhaps Encratites of some variety, who came under the influence of the Sufi mystic Sheikh Adi. See also Yarsanism.
• It ignores the widespread devotion to Durga/Kali in Hinduism.
• It blows out of proportion several "joke religions."

IMHO
Its actually a quite accurate list, because it only names "religions" that actually conceptualize something/being that undeniably resembles "Satan" :

>Gnosticism , as you explain, makes the OT God equal to the demiurge and thus there is no link to "Satan",
Satan being a Christian concept which developed later than the early Gnostic sects did.

>the Yazidi's -Peacock Angel- is not synonymous to Satan or "the devil"\ either, see : Tammuz / Dumuzi.
"who worship an Islamic conception of the devil"
Is incorrect, since the origins are not at all "Islamic" but far pre-Islam. , and Tammuz isn't "the devil"

> Kali / Durga again, has absolutely nothing to do with Satan / Satanism by any definition.
A Hindu (representative aspect of a )Goddess associated with formative darkness just does not relate to latter Christian ideas about "satan".