1 Aleister Crowley – an influential occultist and ceremonial magician.
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
3 Anton LaVey – established modern Satanism.
4 Grigori Rasputin – a controversial spiritual figure in Russian history.
5 Osho – a spiritual teacher known for controversial teachings and communes.
6 Jesus Christ – the foundational figure of Christianity.

  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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    11 days ago

    Anton LaVey’s crowd are chill as hell. Just a little cringe but whomst amogus has not had notions of doing catholic mass naked except for a mask and a cape?

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      10 days ago

      That’s like defending Christianity based on the charity and love. Yeah they’ve got some awesome bits, the problem is that they has to mix Ayn Rand bs into their ritual orgies

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        10 days ago

        Except when christians pull us all into their baggage it’s purging the various impure people or an oil war to try and kick off their stupid little apocalypse.

        When LaVeyans are being their most toxic it looks this:

        Like, yeah he’s doing a stupid little hierarchy but where on that hierarchy does Pajama Satan sit?