[shadowfyr]

Well, that is just it. They **don't** claim to embrace evil. What they claim is that Satan is the good guy and that god is the one that is evil. That's rather different. And, again, its the other side that is insisting that everyone that isn't one of them is "choosing evil, instead of the lord". Or have you missed all the talking heads in this recent election run up that are babbling that BS? lol To them, not being on their side automatically means you are picking evil's side.

For that matter, if you want to get technical, Satan "wasn't" evil until a) they needed something appropriately bad to cast pagans as, so invented the whole horns and a tail version, recasting the pagan god Pan as Satan and b) some other wacko figured that wasn't good enough, and made up the whole story about a war against god, to give them a reason to claim he was evil, and not just going around testing people's faith "for" god, like he did in the OT. Some, and I mean Christians, flat out refuse to accept that the OT and NT gods are even the same god. The OT version is a selfish, egotistical madman, who arbitrarilly uplifted or killed people he didn't happen to like that week. Without "Revelations", which is real easilly to argue as nothing but an extension of the demonization of pagans and a way to scare people to faith, the two are night and day. One about endless tribal war, other other peace, even with your enemies. Yeah, can't imagine *why* Satanists would claim, as part of their official views, that the god everyone else follows is evil. lol