Marilyn Manson on Satanism

Marilyn Manson avec Anton Szandor LaVey, fondateur et grand prêtre de l'église de Satan

"The doctor was the preferred name of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder and high priest of the Church of Satan. What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil. Christianity's war against the devil was always been a fight against man's most natural instincts - for sex, for violence, for self-gratification - and a denial of man's membership in the animal kingdom. The idea of heaven is just Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth."

Marilyn Manson, The long hard road out of hell, Plexus, p. 164