Satanism

Japanese: satanism
Satanism

... The devil, the enemy of God and the antichrist of Christ, inevitably gives rise to Satanists who worship the devil, the antithesis of God, as the supreme deity. Satanism, which arose in Christian culture, differs from the devil worship rituals of other ancient pagan religions in that it is a "Christian perversion." Both Buddhism and Islam have evil gods such as Mara and Iblis, and similar devil worship rituals existed in ancient Celtic Druidism and Etruscan culture, but these were not aware of the perversion and were not recognized as hideous evil.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 神の敵対者,キリストの敵対者(アンチキリスト)である悪魔は,必然的に神の反像である悪魔を最高神とし崇拝する悪魔主義者を生み出す。キリスト教文化圏に発生した悪魔主義satanismが他の古代異教のなかの悪魔礼拝儀式と異なるのは,それが〈キリスト教的倒錯〉であるという点である。仏教にも,イスラムにも,それぞれ魔羅やイブリースのような悪神が存在し,古代ケルトのドルイド教やエトルリア文化にも類似の悪魔礼拝儀式はあったが,これらは倒錯を知らず,その行為はいまわしい悪として自覚されていない。…

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