The challenge is to make Satanism the state religion in at least 2 nations. Bonus if one becomes a great power.
The challenge is to make Satanism the state religion in at least 2 nations. Bonus if one becomes a great power.
What do you mean traditional? It was founded in 1966! It's younger than my grandparents! It barely qualifies as a religion! By all reasonable logic, this would be in Post-1900!The traditional one.
The traditional one.
With a bit of goodwill, one could possibly argue that the philosophical spark that eventually led to Satanism as a spiritual movement began with John Milton's Paradise Lost. And to have Satanism achieving the status that the OP requires, one would almost certainly have to go that far back in time anyway.What do you mean traditional? It was founded in 1966! It's younger than my grandparents! It barely qualifies as a religion! By all reasonable logic, this would be in Post-1900!
Religions like Manaechism had a very dualistic system, with two gods. You could build upon that.
Or you know... we could go with The Euchites/Messalians
Taking a quick look, I don't see how these guys were satanists.
I think the point is that the adherents of the faith -and not outsiders- have to consider Satan to be the deity that is worshipped.A Yazidi-Kurdish state is established during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire or at some later period of crisis. The state religion is (unsurprisingly) Yazidism - ie. worship of the Peacock Angel, who is considered to be Satan by local Muslims and Christians.