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embedded in “The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth” are open to multiple interpretations that
create numerous potential loopholes in understanding these prescriptions.
In 1988, LaVey proposed a document entitled “Pentagonal Revisionism,” which plan
determines five major goals Satanists believe in. This article has the capacity to elaborate on
only some of these aims. The first goal of “stratification” fights mediocrity by dissolving the
myth of equality for all. Dismissing apologies for incompetence, the first point of the
document asserts that “no one should be protected from the effects of his own stupidity.”
Consistent with the above-mentioned proclamations, LaVeys announcement stresses
conscious responsibility for one's actions. Thus, a system of elitism is asserted, in which the
Satanist resembles Nietzsche's Übermensch. The second and third goals target the reduction
of mainstream churches' influence in society by demanding the taxation of all churches and by
necessitating the complete separation of law from religion. The fifth goal strives for
permitting the freedom to insulate oneself from the social milieu whenever that communal
environment offends the individual's either behavioral or aesthetic taste.
Satanist beliefs outl