Church of lucifer

Manichaeism was quite popular for a while.

you mean Judaism?

Well, rebellion against omnipotent entity is pointless

also
trips confirm synagogue of satan

Lucifer landed upon the earth, made of sulfer and volcanic rock, and absorbed all the evil on the earth so that life could flourish.

he retreated to the woods, and bears the burden of the worlds evil, but he does this out of love.

christian "god" has not even a name to be called by. he is merely a book of rules that christians happily clasp the chains around their wrists and mark their foreheads with ash, giving up their children's eternal souls to it as early as they can. remember, you are evil without christian god, a container for sin.

this is not what lucifer thinks of you. He has a path formed by the fates that determines your place in the tapestry, like it or not.

it could definitely work brother. THe gods of the old religion always become the demons of the new.

Cathars
This too

Le sad Demiurge

The problem of satanism/gnosticism (and the reason why it won't ever becme popular) is that it doesn't offer easy guidelines fore getting into heavenly afterlife.

People turn to religion when they are unable to find meaning in life on their own, and thus have to resort to someone's guidance instead. Christianity offers a comprehensive guideline of how to achieve ascencion to heaven.
So do other monotheistic religions - all of them have some sort of endgame.

In gnosticism, there is no real endgame that is easily offered or that has comprehensive guidelines.

Anyway, religion in general is shit and entirely unnecessary to practice faith. Pic related.

And to add onto this, in general, the problem with religions is that they give you an illusion of limited options, when in fact your faith isn't limited by anything.
You don't need to conform to dogmatic things that religions try to impose onto you, in fact - you can choose to believe in any god you want, even if you are the only one to believe in him/her/it/whatever.
That's the entire point of faith - that it exists in spite of logic, public opinion, knowledge, experience.
"I'm the knight of faith and I believe precisely because it's absurd".
Why is Kierkegaard so fucking based anyway?

If he manifested on earth and actually performed miracles and stuff, then sure. As a pure idea/non-physical deity then prob not.

Religions become popular in the first place because they are essentially social genetics. Just like biological evolution due to successful reproduction and adaptation, religion must provide a way for it to both be easily accepted/spread and be adaptable enough to whether social change. It's like how Christianity is so successful, because shit in the OT is very effective at spreading the religion (don't kill each other, love the people who are like you, if you don't convert people that you love then they're going to HELL, etc...) while things like Protestantism and the changing Popes kept it changing up enough to not have people reject it later on (Sure thing Scots, you can have Beef on Fridays). As much as I hesitate to venture into this territory, religions are just successful memes. People like them, want to share them with their friends and family, and they make you feel good.
Something like what you're suggesting isn't as readily accepted, because what's the incentive? If you don't believe in God, then you're going to Hell. But if you don't believe in good guy Satan... you go to Heaven? There will always be contrarians that want to flow against the mainstream, but things like Satanism are parasitic religions that can't properly reproduce on their own. I can't see it ever being more popular than the thing it's trying to subvert.

Buddhism is basically gnosticism, in that salvation comes through your own labor towards it, rather than through submission and faith, and it is a major world religion.

Hinduism and Jainism are similar, the goal not being to reach heaven or eternal life, but to end existence in suffering.

Satanism where the goal is to not suffer under an evil demiurge, or to reach individual ascension, could certainly become as popular and widespread given the right circumstances, especially in a rich and developed urban society.

> Buddhism is basically gnosticism, in that salvation comes through your own labor towards it, rather than through submission and faith, and it is a major world religion.
And yet there are clear guidelines onto how to achieve said salvation.

As there is in Gnosticism, and in Satanism, and indeed in every religion, so?

Just saying that religions get popular because they offer an attractive endgame. If Buddhism is popular and gnosticism isn't, clearly there is something that is more appealing to people in the former when compared to the latter.

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If the satanist I knew was representative of the majority, then they're lazy, manipulative, selfish, impulsive cunts with no regard for society or others, doing the utter bare minimum of work, unless they can get someone else to do it for them and whining when they're told to drop the bullshit and pull their own weight. They're a blight on society with no idea of how humans all have to give up a little freedom for the sake of the community.

So yeah, it could become wildly popular, until everyone else gets sick and tired of it and tears it apart, forcing its adherents to either be a part of society or get the fuck out.