Asking because I haven't heard much about it that comes from reliable sources (actually reliable sources, not what Wikipedia defines as a reliable source).
Laveyan Satanism is a massive individualist hellhole and when one of your guiding theorists is Ayn Rand, that immediately positions a given belief as less then worthless.
Laveyan Satanism is a massive individualist hellhole and when one of your guiding theorists is Ayn Rand, that immediately positions a given belief as less then worthless.
Was he Randian? As I got older, I said Laveyan Satanism was selfish AF and seemed very Randian.
Very much so, in a lot of LaVeyan's early writings he explitcly outlines Nietzsche and Rand as being his two largest inspirations.
That's...quite a pairing...