"The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has……" — Anton Szandor LaVey
"The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses."
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Anton Szandor LaVey
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90 Quotes by Anton Szandor LaVey
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Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it…
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The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging…
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Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
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How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man…
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The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.
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The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the…
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Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.
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ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing…
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Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is…
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Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented…
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The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to…
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Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all…
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More Altar Quotes
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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