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As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man—using his brain—invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species cannot accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires. All Gods are thus externalized forms, magnified projections of the true nature of their creators, personifying aspects of the universe or personal temperaments which many of their followers find to be troubling. Worshipping any God is thus worshipping by proxy those who invented that God. Since the Satanist understands that all Gods are fiction, instead of bending a knee in worship to—or seeking friendship or unity with—such mythical entities, he places himself at the center of his own subjective universe as his own highest value.

We Satanists are thus our own “Gods,” and as beneficent “deities” we can offer love to those who deserve it and deliver our wrath (within reasonable limits) upon those who seek to cause us—or that which we cherish—harm. Magus Gilmore’s essay “What, The Devil?” from The Satanic Scriptures discusses this in greater detail.

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Jesus walked in the desert beside the twelve apostles. He looked upon each one with the loving gaze of a proud father. Jesus trusted each Apostle with his life, and they trusted him. As they walk through the desert, God’s fallen angel, Lucifer came to one of Jesus’ disciples. This disciples name was Judas. Lucifer spoke to Judas in their native tongue of Aramaic, using such a strong tone of genuine caring that it lulled the apostle into a false sense of trust. Lucifer pointed at Jesus and, with a grin of pure malice, said to Judas, “You know that was the nigga in your squad who impulse grenaded you off a cliff in Fortnite yesterday right?”. At this moment, Judas began plotting the betrayal of Jesus.