Angra said: When I initially composed "On Satanism," I did so in response to a number of threads wherein misguided users accused us of murderous, conspirative and otherwise illegal and iniquitous behaviors. My thread, though written from a wholly objective perspective at the time, was confronted with baseless cynicisms, eventually climaxing in childish ad hominem attacks and patent nonsense. One user, refusing to be coerced by my wickedness, even dared to venture this insinuation -- now eternally my favorite post -- against me:

"<expletive> impossible you paradox propaganda <expletive> stop trying to get middle school kids into the Cult of Satan it is degrading when to the low life that is Satanism you need get beat by the fist of Jesus and smacked with the wood from the cross, as Wikipedia and when i google Satanism is <expletive> says the warship of the devil."

Conversely, Satanic misinformation, most often, claims of devil worship, are now reproached with a certain regard for the truth of the matter -- albeit a still relatively uninformed regard. That is, a regard for the truth that regardless of hatred for what it is Satan represents, the fundamentalist portrayal of Satanism is nothing short of fearful nonsense. The hate mail has ceased, and discussion of Doctor LaVey's philosophy no longer ends in religious rage. Could it be that the lingering hysteria of the Satanic Panic has finally left BasilMarket?