“ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God."”

— Anton LaVey , book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

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Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930–1997

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