Introduction
I’ve been virtually silent for the past year since my breakup with Szandora. My ‘marriage’ lasted all of 11 months, 20 something days and a few depressing hours. After a big production Hollywood wedding with celebrity guests and entertainment, I should have expected a cliché Hollywood annulment style breakup. I had overworked my fiancé and myself. Our wedding was a double time job that lasted 6 months – day in, day out, we lived and breathed 666.
June 6th 06 went off without a hitch, but we where so exhausted from the planning of it, the satisfaction we should have enjoyed & the thrill of being newly-wed was somehow less potent than the anticlimactic feeling of relief that we had managed to produce this monster of an event without failing. Not failing the entertainers and the public became more important than not failing each other, which is exactly what we did. We held up the ends of all our deals except the most important one, and it is a shame. We do talk, and we consider each other friends. We’ve reconciled our differences and see things the same now. I will always hold a very special place in my rotten black heart for her.
OK. Enough with the mushy stuff. Let’s get on to business. There’s a lot going on in world of Satanism. I’ve been getting a big kick out of the clickyness and the tabloid like approach to the Satanic ‘scene’ from online zines and the Satanic keyboard warriors that frequent those sites. This reminds me of a conversation I had with Lorin Partridge a couple years ago, we where exchanging words with a satanic emphasis, words like Satarded, Satastic, Satasmic and so on.
I don’t know, call me old fashioned, but I remember when words like Satan, Cunt & Fuck still bothered people. What kind of world are we living in where words like Satan are so overused they no longer make people wince? We’re going to have to start making new bad words.
The CoS has become an Elk’s Lodge or retirement home for aging, stodgy Satanists and recruiting center for illiterate kids who stole their parents bank card and want to be ‘evil’. Independence is on the rise, the cross is crumbling more rapidly than any other time in the past 1000 or so years and I’m proud to be a sponsor for the destruction of the great lie. With class acts like George Carlin, Penn Gillette & Adam Corolla taking stands against creationists and the absurd, abstract notion of a god above and a hell below, progress is being made. Some of us may actually witness the end of Christianity.
As far as I’m concerned the end has already begun, but until I can afford to buy a used church and convert it into a private S&M dungeon / mini theatre, there is much work to be done!
Satanism is ultimately the answer. It’s just a waiting game for the rest of the primates to catch up. The truth is scary, it’s even scarier when you’ve been living a lie. I think the big fear that lies deep in the innermost subconscious mind of religionists is that if there is no god, what reason is there for us to exist at all? And I think they’d be right for wondering if the answer wasn’t so obvious.
In the mean time Satanism as a philosophy/religion/lifestyle is more accepted by the mainstream than ever before. Granted some of the most outspoken Satanists call themselves Atheists, but we all know that’s just a pretty word for Satanism. That’s like Social Darwinist is a nice way of saying racist; you say tomato, I say tomato.
I’m going to continue to champion my grandfather’s philosophy into the 21st century and hopefully inspire future generations of young realists to do the same. I plan to post on my blog regularly. I have more to tell & I’ll catch up over the next few days.
On my next round I’ll tell about recording music with one of Hollywood’s top music producers for a horror movie with Crispin Glover, a mainstream music magazine’s feature article about me & what it’s like to go to Disneyland with a porn icon.
Stay tuned and…
Hail Satan!
Stanton LaVey
